adobe
/əˈdoʊbi/
nouna building material consisting of the mixture mud and straw dried in the sun
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1. Adobe built meditation rooms.
2. The Adobe API sucks.
3. A great example of this is Adobe.
4. So, Adobe keeps really close control of their testing process and their certification curriculum.
5. The sukalas are made of adobe.
asbestos
/æsˈbɛstəs/
nouna soft greyish substance that is resistant to fire and heat and was previously used in the buildings, clothing, etc.
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1. Asbestos is also a carcinogen.
2. And so does the asbestos.
3. Is this asbestos?
4. His name is Asbestos. -
5. - Is this asbestos? -
to assemble
/əˈsɛmbəɫ/
verbto make something by putting separate parts of something together
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1. And some cards assemble contraptions.
2. - Forces assemble.
3. Then assemble your wall cabinets.
4. Then assemble the drawers.
5. Assemble the costume.
batten
/ˈbætən/
nouna long and narrow piece of wood or metal used to hold together or fasten other materials of a building
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1. Batten down the hatches!
2. Batten down the hatches!
3. - What's board and batten?
4. Even today the Drake Passage commands respect: everyone battens down the hatches.
5. Ultimately, Batten seemingly accepted a proposal from Cuevas after being rejected by Barnett.
beam
/ˈbim/
nouna long bar of wood, metal, etc. that supports the weight of a building
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1. Breaking beams.
2. Beams, beams are cool.
3. Beams, beams are cool.
4. I hated beam, always.
5. 'beam' turns to 'bean'.
block
/ˈbɫɑk/
nounan area in a city or town that contains several buildings and is surrounded by four streets
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1. Fortunately, on Earth, the ozone layer blocks gamma rays.
2. My hand blocks the sound.
3. Part of it is building blocks.
4. Blocks have names.
5. The bus is blocking Maria's view of the zebra crossing.
blueprint
/ˈbɫuˌpɹɪnt/
nouna photographic reproduction of a technical drawing, or of an early plan of a building or a machine
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1. He had the blueprint.
2. The underlying composition, however, follows a blueprint.
3. Here's our blueprint.
4. But none of us had a blueprint.
5. Your beliefs are your blueprint.
board
/ˈbɔɹd/
nouna flat, long, and thin piece made of a hard material such as a wood, used for building a house, apartment, etc.
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1. On a December night in 1910, the exiled former leader of Honduras, Manuel Bonilla, boarded a borrowed yacht in New Orleans.
2. Billions of people board a plane each year.
3. On June 10, 1990, four crew members and 81 passengers boarded the aircraft.
4. And finally, people with aisle seats board the plane.
5. Two physicians boarded a flight out of Seattle.
breeze block
/bɹˈiːz blˈɑːk/
nouna building block that is light in weight and is made of mixture of cement with sand and ashes of coal
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brick
/ˈbɹɪk/
nouna block of baked clay, mostly used to build houses, walls, etc.
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1. Others found bricks and
2. And get brick.
3. Brick, break.
4. Brick, break.
5. so bricks four wheels quarry
bricklaying
/bɹˈɪkleɪɪŋ/
nounthe activity or job of using bricks to build walls or buildings
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1. He would figure out ways to make bricklaying more efficient.
2. How to Learn the Basics of Bricklaying.
3. To learn the basics of bricklaying, start with building a low garden wall.
to build
/ˈbɪɫd/
verbto put together different materials such as brick to make a building, etc.
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1. - Building a blanket.
2. Building things.
3. Building rocket ships?
4. The rest of us are building this house.
5. Aliens built the pyramids.
bulldozer
/ˈbʊɫˌdoʊzɝ/
nouna large, powerful vehicle with a wide steel blade at its front that is used to destroy buildings or move earth
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1. Bulldozers remove brush to create a big dirt containment line.
2. The roster of The Wrecking Crew consists of Bulldozer, Piledriver, Thunderball, and the Wrecker.
3. It’s a bulldozer.
4. It’s a bulldozer.
5. The bulldozers have already torn down some of the shops on the bridge.
cantilever
/kˈæntᵻlˌiːvɚ/
nouna long metal or wooden bar that is fixed to a wall at just one end and sticks out of it, used to hold a structure such as a bridge or shelf in place
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1. So a cantilever is a structure that is supported on one end, where there is a fixed side or support, whether beams or other types of support members, that are resisting the rotation of the deck.
2. That's a pretty steep cantilever.
3. Cantilever bridges: These bridges are very similar to traditional bridges, but are supported by a crown on just one side.
4. Bike brakes may be cantilever, side-pull, or disk.
5. Buy the appropriate cantilever, pull, or disk brake pad.
cement
/səˈmɛnt/, /sɪˈmɛnt/
nouna gray powdery substance that becomes hard if it is mixed with water and sand, used for construction purposes such as sticking bricks of a wall together
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1. The new laws only further cemented the subordinate status of black people.
2. The new laws only further cemented the subordinate status of black people.
3. His stereotypical New Yorker accent, along with the reference to the Manhattan-set movie Midnight Cowboy, further cements the connection to modern New York.
4. Her return in the 2009 sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, cemented her status as one of blockbuster cinema's hottest new stars.
5. Cementing your fate.
civil engineering
/sˈɪvəl ˌɛndʒɪnˈɪɹɪŋ/
nouna field of engineering that deals with the design, construction, and repair of buildings, bridges, roads, etc.
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1. Civil engineering technicians typically work under the charge of licensed civil engineers.
2. Civil engineering technicians frequently work in teams with civil engineers, surveyors, and construction workers.
3. But, in civil engineering, quicksand is more than just a puddle of mud.
4. Karl posts cool civil engineering photos on his blog which I’ll link below.
5. Civil engineering meets masterful metalwork with these space and cost saving barriers that can be found in Hong Qiao Park in Shanghai.
to collapse
/kəˈɫæps/
verb(of a construction) to fall down suddenly, particularly due to being damaged or weak
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1. If faith in our institutions and each other collapses, then the nation collapses.
2. He was a grad student in Moscow during the days of Perestroika and collapse of the Soviet Union.
3. America's valuable export trade collapsed.
4. So, the whole thing collapses.
5. The gold standard collapsed.
to concrete
/ˈkɑnkɹit/, /kənˈkɹit/
verbto cover with a mixture of cement, sand, gravel, and water
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1. The major player for sand usage is concrete.
2. The construction is concrete.
3. The building is concrete.
4. Depending on its weight, concrete can displace many cubic meters of water.
5. But concrete also has a large downside.
concrete
/ˈkɑnkɹit/, /kənˈkɹit/
adjectiveconsisting of a hard building material that is made of the mixture of cement, water, sand, and small stones
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1. The major player for sand usage is concrete.
2. The construction is concrete.
3. The building is concrete.
4. Depending on its weight, concrete can displace many cubic meters of water.
5. But concrete also has a large downside.
to construct
/ˈkɑnstɹəkt/, /kənˈstɹəkt/
verbto make or build a house, bridge, machine, etc.
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1. Advanced software can then construct extremely detailed 3-D models of the pipe walls.
2. In other words, your brain constructs your perceptions.
3. Engineers had constructed impressive bridges and buildings.
4. Constructed each plank of gold.
5. And together, these variables construct a score.
construction
/kənˈstɹəkʃən/
nounthe act or process of making or building a house, bridge, machine, etc.
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1. Construction has caused a steep increase in demand for sand.
2. Construction is the biggest demand sector.
3. Construction began.
4. Construction approved.
5. Construction was six weeks.
conversion
/kənˈvɝʒən/
nouna room or building that has been changed to be used for living in or other purposes
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1. Conversion is hard.
2. Conversion matters a lot.
3. Some rulers in the Scandinavian region forced conversion of their subjects as well.
4. Conversion is the civil version of theft.
5. Conversion takes place all the time in Fitzgerald.
to convert
/ˈkɑnvɝt/, /kənˈvɝt/
verbto change into a different form or to change into something with a different use
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1. Worms convert organic waste and other compostable products into natural fertilizers.
2. The angry mass killer was converted into an evangelical pacifist.
3. These nanocrystals convert light according to their size.
4. Lots of old warehouse converted buildings.
5. A good question converts the natural sense of wonder into a focused line of investigation.
crane
/ˈkɹeɪn/
nouna very large tall machine used for lifting heavy objects
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1. - Whooping crane? -
2. Crane shares these general ideas with Wallace Stevens.
3. The crane takes the strip core away for cleanup.
4. The crane slowly lowers the lid onto the tank.
5. Cranes are dangerous.
to demolish
/dɪˈmɑɫɪʃ/
verbto completely destroy or to knock down a building or another structure
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1. Normally, the 22 yards only demolished a few dozen cargo ships a year.
2. Demolished Black communities.
3. Douglass demolished the court's arguments in Dred Scott.
4. You guys demolished it.
5. You guys, demolished it.
design
/dɪˈzaɪn/
nouna plan or drawing according to which something is made
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1. This is a good thing, since human beings are not perfectly designed decision makers.
2. The coach designed this outfit.
3. The long mane, green eyes and red pupils and golden cross-like wheel around its body are designed carefully.
4. Designing housing.
5. Your father designed parts of the White House?
to design
/dɪˈzaɪn/
verbto make drawings according to which something will be constructed or produced
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1. This is a good thing, since human beings are not perfectly designed decision makers.
2. The coach designed this outfit.
3. The long mane, green eyes and red pupils and golden cross-like wheel around its body are designed carefully.
4. Designing housing.
5. Your father designed parts of the White House?
development
/dɪˈvɛɫəpmənt/
nouna piece of land that new buildings are built in
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1. Hence Muybridge is considered to have been a crucial figure in the development of movies.
2. We also wrapped up with a quick history of the origins and development of astronomy, from ancient observers to the Hubble Space Telescope.
3. Development introduces the danger of teleology, a progress from abstraction to anthropomorphism.
4. Development does a bunch of things in evolution.
5. Development maps the information in genotypes into the material of phenotypes.
digger
/ˈdɪɡɝ/
nouna machine used for digging earth
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1. - Digger said,
2. But the diggers excavate intricate tunnels directly underneath the fresh dung pile.
3. Rollers take the top, diggers the bottoms.
4. And they are born diggers.
5. Gold digger is another description.
to do up
/dˈuː ˈʌp/
verbto improve the appearance of a building by repairing or decorating it
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1. and I did up the Inca trail to Machu Picchu in Peru.
2. Instead of burgers and dogs, do up some unprocessed meats.
3. I've done up my office space recently.
4. Not done up!
5. - It was done up.
drywall
/ˈdɹaɪˌwɑɫ/
nouna building material that is consisted of a layer of plaster between two sheets of thick paper, used for covering walls and ceilings
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1. Drywall screws up regular vacuums.
2. So drywall has like a little bit of a tapper on one end.
3. Then, install the drywall.
4. First, know what type of wall you have: drywall, plaster, or masonry.
5. Fix your damaged drywall with these simple repair tips.
elevation
/ˌɛɫəˈveɪʃən/
nounone the sides of a building or the architectural drawing of it
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1. What about continuously track your elevation?
2. The elevation might help out.
3. Elevation make some noise!
4. In contrast, vasospastic angina shows ST-segment elevation due to transmural ischemia.
5. Elevation is a huge help.
to erect
/ɪˈɹɛkt/
verbto build a structure such as a wall, building, etc.
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1. A teepee was erected.
2. Come Erect.
3. Construction scaffolding and orange netting, temporary fencing, plywood walls erected around construction zones.
4. He erects an idol.
5. "Erected a ladder."
erection
/ɪˈɹɛkʃən/
nounthe act of building a structure or placing it upright
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1. It also supplies tremendous erections.
2. And there goes my erection.
3. Have my erections gotten any harder?
4. - One of your other tests is on erections.
5. - Don't get an erection.