apartment building
/ɐpˈɑːɹtmənt bˈɪldɪŋ/
noun
a tall building with one or several apartments built on each floor
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1Those assets included hotels, apartment buildings, and other real estate assets.
2And then, on this apartment building a chemical weapon was dropped.
3The buildings, the apartment buildings are bombed.
4The space at the Florida housing project was a new apartment building.
5This chain of events left the apartment building owners with several different lawsuits.
barn
/ˈbɑɹn/
noun
a building on a farm in which people keep their animals, straw, hay, or grains
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1They provide a barn.
2Swedish word is barn for a child.
3Shellacking the barn!
4- Where's the barn?
5The barn is rather large.
barracks
/ˈbæɹəks/, /ˈbɛɹəks/
noun
a building or a set of buildings for soldiers to live in
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1They let you into one barracks room.
2And the barracks room is half in North Korea, half in South Korea.
3Mrs. Edes: They should have stayed in Barracks on Castle Island.
4Generally speaking, life in a Sōhei monastery was more akin to a barracks than a spiritual cloister.
5In the Foreign Legion, barracks is our home.
bhavan
/bˈævæn/
noun
a building that is used for special occasions, such as concerts or meetings

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bridge
/ˈbɹɪdʒ/
noun
a structure built over a river, road, etc. that enables people or vehicles to go across one side to the other
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1Second, the historical prologue bridges the gap between generations.
2bridges also usually recontextualize the story.
3An encoder bridges the gap between your video content and YouTube.
4The livestream bridges that gap.
5Some people build bridges.
building
/ˈbɪɫdɪŋ/
noun
a structure that has walls, a roof, and sometimes many levels, like an apartment, house, school, etc.
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1You can see some of the beautiful buildings from that time in George Square.
2It is in an interesting new building on the Royal Mile.
3Ripping buildings apart.
4Lots of old warehouse converted buildings.
5And of course buildings have their shapes.
bunker
/ˈbəŋkɝ/
noun
a shelter equipped with strong walls, often built underground, to protect soldiers or guns
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1Here, too, they found a bunker.
2People were in bunkers.
3He has a bunker.
4- You picked the bunker?
5- I picked the bunker.
bunkhouse
/bˈʌŋkhaʊs/
noun
a building in which workers can sleep

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cabana
/kəˈbænə/
noun
a hut, shelter, or cabin, usually at a swimming pool or beach
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1Make your way to the cabana.
2Enjoy the VIP cabana.
3The cabana is a popular gathering space.
4- Where's the cabana?
5Around the pool, You can book cabanas.
cabin
/ˈkæbən/
noun
a small wooden house or shelter built in a forest or the mountains
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1And the cabin, had a wonderful line.
2The cabin awaits.
3The cabin might experience sudden pressure loss and a lack of oxygen.
4The cabin would feature huge windows, comfortable seats, a bathroom, and, of course, a bar.
5Larger ships normally have separate cabins with a comfortable bed, a wardrobe, a table, and sometimes even personal showers.
clinic
/ˈkɫɪnɪk/
noun
a building in which several doctors work together
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1The system covers every doctor every lab every hospital every clinic.
2I need clinic.
3Community neurologists usually have clinic in addition to a weekly call schedule.
4Today's word is clinic.
5Here's clinic in a sentence from today's program: "The Roma medical students set up a clinic on the street."
complex
/ˈkɑmpɫɛks/, /kəmˈpɫɛks/
noun
a set of buildings of the same type in the same place
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1He created a complex map of an average human head.
2He created a complex map of an average human head.
3The nomenclature of your question was complex.
4Languages are complex.
5Space is complex.
consulate
/ˈkɑnsəɫət/
noun
a building or office where a consul carries out diplomatic duties
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1In practical terms, Norwegian expats and tourists had to rely on Swedish consulates.
2He walks into the consulate.
3The consulate is undergoing some renovation right now.
4And to this day, each side has embassies and consulates.
5The consulate was located almost 15km from the apartment.
cooling tower
/kˈuːlɪŋ tˈaʊɚ/
noun
a large, tall, and round building that cools down water for industrial purposes

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dam
/ˈdæm/
noun
a massive wall built to keep water from entering an area or to contain and use water as a power source to produce electricity
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1Tidal dams will connect the filling gate structures with the mainland and McMaster Island.
2The flood has damaged a dam.
3This dam could dry out the delta.
4That’s only possible with the other major type of flood control infrastructure: dams.
5Low head dams almost always have subcritical flow upstream.
des res
/dˈɛs ɹˈɛz/
noun
an apartment or house that a lot of people like to live in

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dormitory
/ˈdɔɹməˌtɔɹi/
noun
a college or university building in which students reside
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1At the Kuitun complex there are multiple dormitories.
2The whole thing is a dormitory so multiple people can sleep here.
3The five new law school dormitories house 386 students.
4My parents pay for the student dormitory.
5These include dormitories, power, and water-distillation plants, laboratories, and even a few bars.
embassy
/ˈɛmbəsi/
noun
a building used as the office or residence of the officials who represent their government in another country
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1Normally, though, embassies are more concerned with building diplomacy.
2Embassy staff made a catalogue of their personal effects: Shirley's rosary beads, Barbara's family photographs, Kathleen's white handkerchief with lace.
3It shares embassies with the Marshall Islands.
4Embassies can be misleadingly complicated sometimes.
5In 2013 the Namibian embassy formally requested their return.
factory
/ˈfæktɝi/
noun
a building or set of buildings in which products are made, particularly using machines
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1Then in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed down clothing factories in China.
2Airline catering kitchens are factories.
3We moved on to oil refineries and chemical factories, learning about the unit operations behind them.
4In the mid-1800s, factories began mass-producing matches.
5Today's word is factory.
flat
/ˈfɫæt/
noun
a place with a few rooms in which people live, normally part of a building with other such places on each floor
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1-This bottle of champagne is flat!
2'This table is flat.'
3The bottom is flat.
4A flats or a wing? - Flats are, flats or, flats or a drum.
5Lay the console flat
gallery
/ˈɡæɫɝi/
noun
a place in which works of art are shown or sold to the public
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1Crowds filled galleries of the House long before the noon opening of the session.
2Spider-Man rogues gallery was so cool.
3Many galleries have unposted hours.
4- Clear the gallery.
5Gallery view gives you the files at the bottom.
gazebo
/ɡɐzˈiːboʊ/
noun
a small roofed building with open sides, usually in a garden
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1Oh, you're going for, you are making a gazebo?
2Yeah, I always start with a gazebo.
3This is a little gazebo.
4There's a gazebo.
5The gazebo is packed to the rafters.
greenhouse
/ˈɡɹinˌhaʊs/
noun
a glass structure used for growing plants in and protecting them from cold weather
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1The greenhouse will protect the plants from insects, rain, and too much heat from the sun.
2Long rows of tables fill the greenhouse.
3The greenhouse has even withstood an earthquake.
4Greenhouse is the glasshouse, here, the cabin.
5Greenhouse affect.
guest house
/ɡˈɛst hˈaʊs/
noun
a small house separated from a larger one where guests can stay
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1I was a small child living with my parents guest house.
2On the right, that's the finished guest house, and in between the garage and the main house, we've got a nice little garden, so you come out of the garage here and walk by the garden, get some nice natural light.
hangar
/ˈhæŋɝ/
noun
a large building that houses aircraft
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1Including the hangars.
2This is seared hangar with lemongrass chili oil.
3There's some hangars.
4absolutely, airport hangar, who books that?
5One of the new additions to this property is this helicopter hangar.
high-rise
/hˈaɪɹˈaɪz/
noun
a very tall building with many floors
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1And we’ll make this all high-rise.
2These designs and technologies have helped high-rise buildings to withstand typhoons and earthquakes.
3A high-rise made of Styrofoam.
4Traditionally in the 1960s, men would have worn high-rise trousers that set closer to the natural waist.
5I work at the high-rise.
home
/ˈhoʊm/
noun
a place such as a house or apartment where someone lives, particularly with their family
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1He wanted to know the specific time they had returned home.
2When he finally went on his sleepy way home, Tom felt sure that he had just made an excellent new friend.
3Sara's father stays at home.
4This is in large part, due to home equity being bequeathed from one generation to the next.
5Spartan girls lived at home with their mothers as they attended school.
hotel
/hoʊˈtɛɫ/
noun
a building where we give money to stay and eat food in when we are traveling
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1Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
3Hotels present similar challenges.
4Hotels have the weirdest lotions.
5Hotels always have good shrimp cocktails for some reason.
hothouse
/ˈhɑtˌhaʊs/
noun
a heated building that is made of glass and is used for growing in plants that need warm weather
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147 million years ago, the world was a hothouse.
2But in the oceans, life in hothouse Earth became much harder.
3It's a hothouse of emotion.
4This is the Age of the Hothouse.
5Essentially it acted also like a mini hothouse .
inn
/ˈɪn/
noun
a small hotel, especially located in the countryside
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1The inn is loaded.
2The inn is stacked.
3In those books, the inns play a similar role.
4That place would frequently be an inn.
5You've won an inn.
kiosk
/ˈkiˌɔsk/
noun
a small store with an open front selling newspapers, etc.
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1But there is a kiosk.
2Our next Turkish word in English is kiosk.
3The newspaper kiosk inside is open.
4- Open your own boujee pop tart kiosk.
5Many airports have tour kiosks for just this purpose.
lab
/ˈɫæb/
noun
a place that is used for research, testing, and other scientific or medical experiments
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1The system covers every doctor every lab every hospital every clinic.
2An hour later, the lab exploded.
3But some labs have four.
4We have labs here
5Because lab answers the really big question.
death chamber
/dˈɛθ tʃˈeɪmbɚ/
noun
a room, located in a prison, in which those who are sentenced to death are executed

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