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Arris
noun · 78% connection
The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Bezant
noun · 78% connection
A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Broach
noun · 78% connection
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Butt joint
unknown · 78% connection
A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Crown
noun · 78% connection
An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Decorator
noun · 78% connection
One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior de…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Design
noun · 78% connection
A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decora…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Engraving
noun · 78% connection
The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of pro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Eyelet
noun · 78% connection
fabric decorated with small holes with finely stitched edges that form an ornamental pattern.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Finery
noun · 78% connection
Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Flashing
noun · 78% connection
Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Fractal
noun · 78% connection
A pattern whose structure repeats at different scales.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Gauge
noun · 78% connection
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tile…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Guipure
noun · 78% connection
A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Herpes
noun · 78% connection
An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in sma…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Homologous
adjective · 78% connection
Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Homology
noun · 78% connection
Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
Imbricated
adjective · 78% connection
Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: overlapping, edges, like, tiles, shingles.
