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A red ribbon which signifies support for AIDS awareness and treatment research.
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(obsolete) The corner of a wall or rafter.
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Having an avenue or avenues.
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A tall, looming structure.
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Alternative form of baluster [(architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway; a banister. [from 17th c.]]
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A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars that can be lifted out of the posts.
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(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
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Alternative spelling of bell tower [A tower in which a bell (or set of bells) is hung; a belfry.]
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(obsolete) A railing around a well.
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(architecture) A steeple or bell tower.
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Uncommon spelling of church tower. [(architecture) A steeple or bell tower.]
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(architecture) A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.
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Alternative spelling of clock tower [(architecture) A tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.]
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(architecture) A floor which also serves as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony.
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(physics, engineering) A tower, containing a long evacuated tube, within which objects can be dropped experimentally.
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A fortification in the form of a cylindrical tower, typically resembling a drum.
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(historical) A military formation, usually shaped like a wedge.
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The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
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A tower built as an architectural folly, i.e. for ornamental rather than practical reasons.
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Furnished with a handrail.
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A pioneering construction system introduced in 1892, based on reinforced concrete.
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An item of furniture like a flat bench, but positioned at a vertical diagonal, and often with attached arm-rests. Popularized in the early era of Hollywood film, where they allowed actresses in elaborate costumes to rest without becoming disheveled.
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Having a newel (stair pillar).
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Having a newel (stair pillar).
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An area of a tall building, often open to the sky, from which the public may look at the surrounding panorama.
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(military) Generally a screen or embankment to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack, from bomb splinters from behind, from enemy fire from a commanding height, or fire from flanking positions. In common English usage since World War II, the term "parados", particularly in trench warfare, has largely been discarded in favour of "rear parapet", which, etymologically speaking, is a contradiction in terms. In some contexts the term "rear traverse" is preferred, but no usage is exclusive.
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(US) A building constructed around a frame of timbers
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A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the entrance to a castle, fort, etc.
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(construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
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(countable, architecture, obsolete) A small square-shaped opening in window tracery.
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(construction) A supporting post designed to span longer openings than a king post.
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The symbol of this branch.
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A person who builds sandcastles.
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A rooftop area for relaxation on a multi-storey building.
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A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
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In Japanese architecture, two shelves at different heights, each one extending from one wall while not touching the other wall, but mutually joined in the middle with a vertical segment.
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(of a building) having a steeple
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movable tower used in sieges
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(figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.
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(figuratively) A visionary and impractical plan.
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Which has the characteristics of a tower.
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Obsolete form of tower. [A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.]
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(architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
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(archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
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