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Architecture
noun · 78% connection
The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Barrack
noun · 78% connection
A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Boarding
noun · 78% connection
The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Booth
noun · 78% connection
A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Center
noun · 78% connection
A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Consumption of materials
noun · 78% connection
the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and dep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Crib
noun · 78% connection
A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Electricity
noun · 78% connection
A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Factory
noun · 78% connection
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Float
verb · 78% connection
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Frame
noun · 78% connection
Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or me…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Hoarding
noun · 78% connection
A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Keelson
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Life-preserver
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Lumber
noun · 78% connection
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Material intensity
noun · 78% connection
the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and dep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Mudsill
noun · 78% connection
The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge whic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
Outrigger
noun · 78% connection
Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: temporary, structure, timber, boards, various.
