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Abacus
noun · 78% connection
The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Architrave
noun · 78% connection
The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Basis
noun · 78% connection
The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Bell
noun · 78% connection
That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Block
verb · 78% connection
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Borrowed capital
noun · 78% connection
capital which the business borrows from institutions or people; includes various debentures.; "Capital contributed by the owner or ent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Boultin
noun · 78% connection
A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capita…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Capital
noun · 78% connection
The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. Se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Capital gains tax
noun · 78% connection
a tax on capital gains; "he avoided the capital gains tax by short selling"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Capitalize
verb · 78% connection
To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Cassiterite
noun · 78% connection
Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Chasuble
noun · 78% connection
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Circus
noun · 78% connection
A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Column
noun · 78% connection
Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Coussinet
noun · 78% connection
That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Crossette
noun · 78% connection
A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Doric
adjective · 78% connection
Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
Fascia
noun · 78% connection
A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: massive, piece, stone, wood, laid.
