prefabricated
/pɹiˈfæbɹɪˌkeɪtɪd/
adjective
(particularly of a piece of furniture or building) made in parts that can be easily and quickly put together
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1Technically Luna House is a prefabricated home.
2So now let's talk about some of the red flags that you should be looking for when you're looking on the internet for a prefabricated modular home.
3We typically just use a prefabricated wrapper that you can find at any Asian supermarket.
4Or you could buy a prefabricated bomb shelter that you could simply bury in the ground.
5If you prefer to go it alone, build your own apocalypse shelter, or buy a prefabricated one.
to redevelop
/ɹidɪˈvɛɫəp/
verb
to change an area by destroying old buildings, roads, etc. and constructing new ones instead
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1And in the 1950s, the city had begun to redevelop certain neighborhoods, pushing low income residents out, and into densely packed, high-rise public housing in already overcrowded neighborhoods.
2It's actually redeveloped because we normally should breathe that way.
3Because you actually have to redevelop, knock a whole bunch of stuff down.
4Completely redeveloped, including, of course, the technology, the engine, the whole of the chassis, everything that goes along with it.
5Where should we be redeveloping?
redevelopment
/ˌɹidɪˈvɛɫəpmənt/
noun
the process or action of changing an area by destroying old buildings, roads, etc. and constructing new ones instead
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1And after a disaster like Katrina, the economic redevelopment of this of this neighborhood has been glacial.
2And they developed this redevelopment corporation.
3Initially, the North’s redevelopment was faster than the South’s, as their government went through at least six different types.
4Brownfield redevelopment managers need help to accomplish their plans, and hire specialists like hydrologists, GIS technicians, and environmental engineers.
5Could this be our new redevelopment project?
to refurbish
/ɹiˈfɝbɪʃ/
verb
to make a room or building look more attractive by repairing, redecorating, or cleaning it
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1Even Sweden's most famous company, Ikea, refurbishes its furniture here.
2- Refurbished though?
3They're not refurbished.
4They're just refurbished.
5He refurbished old BMWs as a hobby.
refurbishment
/ɹiˈfɝbɪʃmənt/
noun
the process or act of making a room or building look more attractive by repairing, redecorating or cleaning it
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1VH-OQI had been flown to Dresden in March for cabin refurbishment.
2Brian was having a lot of refurbishment done on the house, and Frank was doing that refurbishment.
3Regardless, the painting now rests in a bank vault, awaiting refurbishment for eventual display in a museum.
4After spending £100,000 or roughly $122,000 on the refurbishments, the brand new WC Wine Bar opened to the Newcastle public in 2020.
5- What's refurbishments?
to reinforce
/ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹs/
verb
to strengthen a substance or structure, particularly by adding extra material to it
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1And then these exploitative relationships reinforce your mistrust of people.
2Along the way, art historians reinforced this bias.
3And that only reinforces this sense.
4And the title of the post certainly reinforces that perception.
5Reinforce a two-bark response with words of praise.
to render
/ˈɹɛndɝ/
verb
to cover the surface of a wall with plaster or cement
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1The United States Supreme Court rendered a decision.
2Render his decision according to the fairest testimony at command. -
3Their app could render things completely differently.
4With one venomous bite, the wasp renders the spider immobile.
5This screen renders your mood as a work of art.
to renovate
/ˈɹɛnəˌveɪt/
verb
to make a building or a piece of furniture look good again by repairing or painting it
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1They renovated the house.
2Renovated in 2013.
3- Step number two: renovate your website.
4Who renovates the renovators?
5Before Drew Scott and Linda Phan wed in 2018, the pair renovated their very first home together.
renovation
/ˌɹɛnəˈveɪʃən/
noun
the process or action of making a building or a piece of furniture look good again by repairing or painting it
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1The consulate is undergoing some renovation right now.
2In 2011, workers began renovations on Hanuman Dhoka, a former 16th Century royal palace in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
3So, my wife and I tackled renovations.
4- Mind redefine new renovations.
5Mind redefine new renovations.
to rewire
/ɹiˈwaɪɝ/
verb
to provide new electrical wiring for a building or machine
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1It rewires your brain.
2- 4,000 to rewire the whole entire house,
3It rewires your brain.
4Stress rewires your brain.
5- You rewired the flashlight?
roofing
/ˈɹufɪŋ/
noun
the process of constructing the roof of a building
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1And then we'll do this weird shenanigans here for that roofing.
2The roofing is a lot.
3Roofing is always the hardest part.
4I used to love this red roofing, what happened?
5This is the tepidarium, and the roofing of the tepidarium.
rubble
/ˈɹəbəɫ/
noun
the damaged bricks, stones, or other material of a building that remain after its destruction
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1- Four, grab rubble.
2All right, so one, two, collect rubble.
3Two and three, collect more rubble.
4- Just grabbing the rubble.
5One woman searches rubble.
to sand
/ˈsænd/
verb
to rub something against sandpaper or use a sander in order to make its surface smooth
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1Every ten billion years one single grain of sand falls to the bottom.
2Sand dollars eat sand.
3Sand, send.
4The Egyptian government put sand at the base of some of the buildings.
5The long eyelashes keep sand out of their eyes.
scaffolding
/ˈskæfəɫdɪŋ/
noun
a structure consisting of metal poles with wooden planks on them that are put against a building so that workers can climb it or stand on it while constructing the building
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1At certain points in a Volvox’s life cycle, that transparent scaffolding can make up 99% of its volume.
2Construction scaffolding and orange netting, temporary fencing, plywood walls erected around construction zones.
3So your academic career has given you the scaffolding.
4The hedonic scaffolding of our lives disintegrates.
5Removes some scaffolding.
site
/ˈsaɪt/
noun
an area of land on which something is, was, or will be constructed
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1Suddenly, there was a shortage of dumbbells and kettlebells on e-commerce sites.
2Over time, sites elsewhere took on Olmec features.
3Sites are miracles.
4Experts site sheer drop-offs, deep canyons, extreme temperature fluctuations and even dangerous wildlife as possible explanations for this troubling trend.
5Sometimes sites will have multiple ones.
skeleton
/ˈskɛɫətən/
noun
the main support for a bridge, building, etc.
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1Skeleton, skeleton, where are you?
2Skeleton, skeleton, where are you?
3Everywhere are skeletons.
4Everywhere are skeletons.
5Everywhere are skeletons.
slab
/ˈsɫæb/
noun
a thick and flat piece of hard material, such as a stone, metal, wood, etc. that is usually in the shape of a square or rectangle
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1A wing of a school pancaked into concrete slabs.
2A slab avalanche occurs when a heavy concentration of snow forms on a less concentrated weak layer.
3Got some dry ice here as well as a slab of marble.
4- Got big ol' slab.
5I'm rolling out this slab pretty thinly.
slate
/ˈsɫeɪt/
noun
a kind of dark gray rock that can be easily divided into thin flat pieces
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1It cleans the slate.
2- Check the slate.
3Just clean the slate.
4Just clean the slate.
5Just clean the slate.
stone
/ˈstoʊn/
noun
a hard and solid material that forms the rocks, which is often used for building things
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1There are long, white, empty beaches here and the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Callanish.
2Stone strongly denies any wrongdoing in 2016.
3- I hate stone.
4It took stone.
5You made stones?
structure
/ˈstɹəktʃɝ/
noun
the manner in which the parts of something are arranged, connected, or organized
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1Normally, cells work together to form structures like organs, tissue or elements of the immune system.
2So structure has to do things like representative democracy.
3So really, this set of paintings structured my thinking in a variety of different ways.
4Our brains crave structure.
5Coherence includes structure.
substructure
/sˈʌbstɹʌktʃɚ/
noun
a structure or base that is situated beneath another structure to provide support
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1This galaxy cluster is made of lots of massive substructures like individual galaxies and halos of dark matter.
2So this is a tectonic shift in basically the principal substructure of power in the World, economic power.
3And I show you a view here of the substructures of the amphitheater, the Roman Amphitheater at Pozzuoli.
4Accident is admitted as a portion of the substructure.
5It's just a tiny sub-substructure, microscopic.
subsidence
/səbˈsaɪdəns/
noun
the process during which a building or piece of land sinks to a lower level or to the ground
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1And since Hammond's Cottage was now suffering from subsidence, we pulled in for some bodging.
2The SUBSIDENCE was between one and three millimeters.
3And there is many occasions already exist, where this subsidence already is threatening the oil extraction infrastructure.
4A statute that prohibited the mining of coal underground in a manner that causes subsidence of homes on the surface went too far and did constitute a taking.
5So you end up in this subsidence situation creating an elevated inversion.
to support
/səˈpɔɹt/
verb
to hold a person or thing in position or prevent them from falling
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1Support the base of the topper-- - Turn around.
2People are still supporting artists.
3supports the nighttime habit of creation.
4The numbers support access to abortion.
5Support our leader!
to thatch
/ˈθætʃ/
verb
to cover the roof of a house with a material made of reeds or straws
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1Welcomes him to a pile of thatching?
2This storm is expected to damage all thatched roof buildings.
3Thatched roofs and small animals.
4They built their villages on naturally defensible plateaus, constructing houses of thatch and mud while subsisting off farming, herding, and forestry.
5Tambarans are built out of bamboo and thatched with palm leaves.
tile
/ˈtaɪɫ/
noun
stacks of baked clay that are used to cover roofs
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1We need tiles.
2We have tiles.
3The floor is tile.
4They tile our brain.
5Tile a wall.
to tile
/ˈtaɪɫ/
verb
to cover the surface of a wall, floor, etc. with flat and often square pieces of baked clay or other materials
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1We need tiles.
2We have tiles.
3The floor is tile.
4They tile our brain.
5Tile a wall.
lumber
/ˈɫəmbɝ/
noun
wood that has been cut into specific pieces to be used for building purposes
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1Also lumber is not as funny as wood.
2Lumber prices are through the roof.
3It gives me lumber.
4So, like, you're stealing lumber.
5They weren't lumbering, slow fools.
truss
/ˈtɹəs/
noun
a metal or wooden frame supporting a bridge, roof, etc.
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1You could traditionally truss the chicken.
2So the Sydney Harbour Bridge employs two truss in the shape of an arc.
3Narrator: YOUR TRUSSES WILL BE MADE OF SOLID STEEL.
4Next, I'm going to truss just her legs.
5Using aluminum wire, truss the legs to the tail securely.
to varnish
/ˈvɑɹnɪʃ/
verb
to cover the surface of an object with a clear liquid that leaves a shine
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1I sprayed a varnish on my face.
2This is not removing of varnish.
3So the varnish just gives a kind of waterproof layer.
4Remove any varnish from the surface of the object by applying acetone with a brush.
5And it tastes like varnish smells.
to ventilate
/ˈvɛnəˌɫeɪt/, /ˈvɛntəˌɫeɪt/
verb
to cause fresh air into and circulated in an enclosed area such as a building or room
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1Well ventilated.
2Five hundred yards of a tunnel, they ventilated it, the Confederates on the other side.
3Every single elevator is ventilated.
4I can't ventilate.
5The air is then ventilated to the outdoors through a filter system.
wrecking ball
/ɹˈɛkɪŋ bˈɔːl/
noun
a heavy metal ball hanging from a crane that is struck against a building to destroy it
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1If the Radical Democrats take power, they will take a wrecking BALL to our ECONOMY and to our future, a Wrecking Ball.
2Miley Cyrus from Wrecking Ball music video, that's right.
3Oh no was, it was the guy was all twerking on "Wrecking Ball."
structure
/ˈstɹəktʃɝ/
noun
anything that is built from several parts, such as a house, bridge, etc.
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1Normally, cells work together to form structures like organs, tissue or elements of the immune system.
2So structure has to do things like representative democracy.
3So really, this set of paintings structured my thinking in a variety of different ways.
4Our brains crave structure.
5Coherence includes structure.
limestone
/ˈɫaɪmˌstoʊn/
noun
a hard gray or white rock that contains calcium and is used for making cement or as a building material
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1-These are limestone mines.
2And the summit of Everest itself is marine limestone.
3Limestone islands rise from the water like mushrooms sprouting in the sea.
4Most natural sinkholes happen in areas with large deposits of carbonate rocks, like limestone.
5You can do limestone.
wall
/ˈwɔɫ/
noun
an upright structure, usually made of brick, concrete, or stone that is made to divide, protect, or surround a place
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1So he puts a wall around the garden, with a big notice on it.
2Walls have a deep history in Northern Ireland.
3unfortunately well 11 grow wall back
4Back in the day, cavemen had walls.
5Like, back in the day, cavemen had walls.

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