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