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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEARING COURSE

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wearing course is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WEARING COURSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wearing course

The wearing course is the upper layer in roadway, airfield, and dockyard construction. The term 'surface course' is sometimes used, however this term is slightly different as it can be used to describe very thin surface layers such as chip seal. In rigid pavements the upper layer is a portland cement concrete slab. In flexible pavements, the upper layer consists consists of asphalt concrete, that is a construction aggregate with a bituminous binder. The wearing course is typically placed on the base course, which is normally placed on the subbase, which rests on the subgrade. There are various different types of flexible pavement wearing course, suitable for different situations. Stone mastic asphalt is a type of flexible pavement wearing course which is typically used for heavily trafficked roads.

Definition of wearing course in the English dictionary

The definition of wearing course in the dictionary is the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface Also called: carpet, topping.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEARING COURSE

wearied
wearier
wearies
weariest
weariful
wearifully
wearifulness
weariless
wearilessly
wearily
weariness
wearing
wearingly
wearish
wearisome
wearisomely
wearisomeness
wearproof
weary
wearying

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEARING COURSE

as a matter of course
Bourse
concourse
course
crash course
discourse
golf course
in due course
intercourse
lay a course
main course
matter of course
matter-of-course
nurse
of course
par for the course
racecourse
recourse
run its course
sexual intercourse
training course

Synonyms and antonyms of wearing course in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wearing course» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEARING COURSE

Find out the translation of wearing course to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wearing course from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wearing course» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

当然穿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

capa de rodadura
570 millions of speakers

English

wearing course
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पहने कोर्स
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يرتدي بالطبع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

носить конечно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de desgaste
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কোর্স পরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

couche de roulement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memakai kursus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verschleiß
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

身に着けているコース
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

착용 과정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nganggo dalan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mặc nhiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிச்சயமாக அணிந்துகொள்கிறேன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिधान करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

giyim Kursu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

usura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ścieralna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

носити звичайно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uzură
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φορώντας φυσικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dra natuurlik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slitlager
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slitelag
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wearing course

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEARING COURSE»

The term «wearing course» is normally little used and occupies the 123.959 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEARING COURSE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wearing course» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wearing course» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wearing course

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEARING COURSE»

Discover the use of wearing course in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wearing course and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Asphalt Pavements: A Practical Guide to Design, Production ...
Most HMA mixtures have a substantial overlap of mixture application. The aggregate top size in an asphalt mixture governs the minimum and maximum pavement layers or lift thicknesses. The minimum thickness for a wearing course usually ...
Patrick Lavin, 2003
2
Building the Future: Innovation in design, materials and ...
Same tests on the surfaced deck with the synthetic porous wearing course ZOK at ± 17.0°C, showed at these locations reductions in steel stress varying between 35 and 57%. Dynamic loading tests carried out on the surfaced deck with the ...
G.S.T. Armer, J.L. Clarke, F.K. Garas, 2003
3
Road Engineering for Development, Second Edition
Wearing The wearing course is the uppermost layer of a sealed pavement. It provides the course riding surface for the road users. The wearing course should be smooth and dust-free and have adequate skid resistance. It should protect the  ...
Richard Robinson, Bent Thagesen, 2004
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Pavements Unbound: Proceedings of the 6th International ...
Canada ABSTRACT: A literature review was conducted to help develop a performance-based specification for materials intended to be used as the wearing course in forest roads built from unbound aggregate. A survey of eastern Canadian ...
Andrew Dawson, 2004
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Bituminous Mixtures in Road Construction
Cooling of chipped bituminous mixtures The cooling of a chipped layer is much more difficult to analyse. The functions of the roadbase, the basecourse and the wearing course have been covered in chapters 1, 2 and 3. Premature failure of ...
Robert N. Hunter, 1994
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Standard Specifications for Two-course Concrete Pavement: ...
removed before the wearing course is applied. The reinforcing metal shall be placed upon and slightly pressed into the concrete base immediately after it is placed. _ In case of a breakdown, concrete shall be mixed by hand to complete the ...
American Concrete Institute, 1915
7
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Rollers used for the initial compression of the wearing course shall be well balanced, self-propelled tandem rollers weighing between 7 and 8 tons each. Each shall have a compression under the rear roller of between 200 and 300 pounds per ...
New York (State). Legislature. Senate, 1915
8
Annual Report
Hollers used for the initial compression of the wearing course shall be well balanced, self-propelled tandem rollers weighing between 7 and 8 tons each. Each shall have a compression under the rear roller of between 200 and 300 pounds per ...
New York (State) Dept. of Efficiency and Economy, John H. Delaney, 1915
9
Raina'S Field Manual For Highway & Bridge Engineers
Group Three: wearing course material: - 14 mm nominal size open-textured wearing course macadam, - 10 mm nominal size open-textured wearing course macadam, - 6 mm nominal size medium-textured wearing course macadam, - 14 mm ...
Virindra Kumar Raina, 2007
10
Standards and Specifications for Nonmetallic Minerals and ...
If dirt, sand, or dust collects on the base it shall be removed before the wearing course is applied. Workmen shall not be permitted to walk on the freshly-laid concrete. Any concrete in excess of that needed to complete a section at the stopping ...
John Quayle Cannon, 1930

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEARING COURSE»

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County lists roads to be repaired, repaved in spring, summer
Bonded wearing course, which is a thin layer of paving. Caltrans has done similar work around the county. Caltrans defines it as “a gap graded, ultra thin hot-mix ... «Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Nov 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Wearing course [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wearing-course>. May 2024 ».
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