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Aisle

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Passage 76% connected

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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Passageway 76% connected

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

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Gangway 92% connected

A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Building noun · 86% connection

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corne…

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Construction noun · 86% connection

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair i…

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Als noun · 78% connection

thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle a…

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Apartment noun · 78% connection

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.

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Apteral adjective · 78% connection

Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphipr…

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Bay noun · 78% connection

A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, va…

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Caesura noun · 78% connection

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

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Chimney noun · 78% connection

That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending throug…

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Choir noun · 78% connection

the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave

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Cofferdam noun · 78% connection

A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and perm…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lateral, division, building, separated, middle.
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Columnar adjective · 78% connection

Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

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Columniation noun · 78% connection

(architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure

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Dock noun · 78% connection

The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers…

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Eaves n. pl. · 78% connection

The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.

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Entablature noun · 78% connection

(architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof

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Fission noun · 78% connection

A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradua…

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