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(construction) The cavity in a cavity wall containing air for insulation.
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A vertical covering on a wall rising above a countertop or other work surface to protect the wall from spills and to decorate the wall.
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(archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
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(architecture) A continuous row or layer of stones or brick set in a wall.
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A large double-cavity concrete brick.
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A masonry wall made of large blocks such as cinder blocks or concrete blocks, especially concrete masonry units.
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(architecture) The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
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A decorative strip around the edge of something.
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Having walls made of brick.
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(architecture) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
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A slight convexity or slope for drainage etc.; a camber.
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(construction) A double wall of masonry connected by an air space.
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The overhead closure of a room.
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(countable) A type of formwork which serves as a temporary structure during the construction of arches and bridges.
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Alternative form of sill [(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.]
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(in combination) Having a specified kind or number of cistern.
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(architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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(transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
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(transitive, architecture) To furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one below it.
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Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
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A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
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(architecture) The non-load-bearing outer skin of a modern building.
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Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
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(civil engineering) A structure inserted in the ground and used to maintain an excavation open or to isolate portions of contaminated ground. It can be built of any material from steel to reinforced concrete.
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(by extension) Something that extends over or projects beyond.
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A large concrete block with a groove in the bottom face and a tongue on the top face to eliminate slippage when they are stacked. There is also a steel loop on the top face to facilitate lifting. The blocks are stacked in an offset manner to create a wall for retaining earth by means of their great mass. A wall built with them can be readily dismantled and the blocks reused (in ecological fashion).
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Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.
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The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
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(construction) A structural separation between two building elements that allows free movement between the elements without damage to the system.
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(architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
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(architecture) A buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports, and is connected to it by an arch (flyer).
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A piece of furniture consisting of two or more frames connected by hinges.
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Having a specified number or kind of hangars.
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Having outer walls surfaced by harling.
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A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
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(civil engineering) A retaining wall at the outlet of a drain or culvert.
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(architecture) The outermost moulding which protrudes out of a wall over an archway (over the hood of a door, window or other opening), for decoration or the cover transitions between surfaces, and to discharge rain; a dripstone.
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A horizontal component of a structure.
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A door that is flush with the outside wall, intended to be concealed.
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A short wall, less than half the normal height, that supports rafters near their low end.
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Built up with masonry.
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Having walls constructed from mud, or with bricks made from mud
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(construction) Of a brick or stone: laid with its length parallel to the face of the wall.
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A decoration, usually a painting, that is placed above a doorway.
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(transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.
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(simile) A thin wall, especially if poorly soundproof.
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(predicative) Having paper walls.
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Alternative form of perpend [A brick or stone that has its longest dimension perpendicular to the face of a wall, especially one that extends through the wall's entire thickness.]
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A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder.
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(architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
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(transitive) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
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(architecture) A kind of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between moulds which are carried up as the wall rises.
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(figuratively) Any border.
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(geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
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A hanging, such as a heavy curtain, placed over a door or doorway; a door curtain.
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(military, historical) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
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(transitive) To wedge or steady with quoins.
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The outer side of a window or door frame.
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(idiomatic) To mark the end of something.
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A fireproof curtain which can be lowered to stop the spread of fire between the auditorium and the stage
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To cover (a building, especially a porch) with window screens
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(architecture) An element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building
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A type of retaining wall used during construction by driving interlocking sheets of material into the ground.
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(engineering) A lining of planks or boards for protecting an embankment.
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(construction) Formwork.
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(architecture) The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.
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(Jamaica) A style of wall made from pieces of stone stuck together with lime, clay, etc. and then plastered or whitewashed.
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A type of espalier where the tree or bush is made to grow horizontally above the ground, like a fence-rail.
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(construction) The floor structure supporting and underlying the visible flooring or other finishing surface such as a carpet
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(very rare, obsolete) The lintel across the top of a doorway.
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A system of textured ground surface indicators found on stairs, railway station platforms etc., to assist pedestrians who are visually impaired.
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A brick wall reinforced with horizontal wires for stability.
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(archeology) Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
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(transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
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The finishing of a building's roof, often accompanied by a special ceremony.
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A wall built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high mass internal layer separated by a layer of air, so as to absorb heat during sunlit hours of winter and slowly release it overnight.
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Material used for walls.
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(rare) A piece of furniture for storage set into a recess.
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A mural or advertisement painted or attached onto the exterior surface of a building.
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(architecture) A slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable it to throw off water.
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(transitive) To place at or in a window.
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(chiefly of a seat in a restaurant) Next to the window overlooking the street
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(transitive) To install a windscreen on.
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