apartment building
/ɐpˈɑːɹtmənt bˈɪldɪŋ/
nouna tall building with one or several apartments built on each floor
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1. Those assets included hotels, apartment buildings, and other real estate assets.
2. And then, on this apartment building a chemical weapon was dropped.
3. The buildings, the apartment buildings are bombed.
4. The space at the Florida housing project was a new apartment building.
5. This chain of events left the apartment building owners with several different lawsuits.
barn
/ˈbɑɹn/
nouna building on a farm in which people keep their animals, straw, hay, or grains
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1. They provide a barn.
2. Swedish word is barn for a child.
3. Shellacking the barn!
4. - Where's the barn?
5. The barn is rather large.
barracks
/ˈbæɹəks/, /ˈbɛɹəks/
nouna building or a set of buildings for soldiers to live in
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1. They let you into one barracks room.
2. And the barracks room is half in North Korea, half in South Korea.
3. Mrs. Edes: They should have stayed in Barracks on Castle Island.
4. Generally speaking, life in a Sōhei monastery was more akin to a barracks than a spiritual cloister.
5. In the Foreign Legion, barracks is our home.
bhavan
/bˈævæn/
nouna building that is used for special occasions, such as concerts or meetings
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bridge
/ˈbɹɪdʒ/
nouna structure built over a river, road, etc. that enables people or vehicles to go across one side to the other
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1. Second, the historical prologue bridges the gap between generations.
2. bridges also usually recontextualize the story.
3. An encoder bridges the gap between your video content and YouTube.
4. The livestream bridges that gap.
5. Some people build bridges.
building
/ˈbɪɫdɪŋ/
nouna structure that has walls, a roof, and sometimes many levels, like an apartment, house, school, etc.
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1. You can see some of the beautiful buildings from that time in George Square.
2. It is in an interesting new building on the Royal Mile.
3. Ripping buildings apart.
4. Lots of old warehouse converted buildings.
5. And of course buildings have their shapes.
bunker
/ˈbəŋkɝ/
nouna shelter equipped with strong walls, often built underground, to protect soldiers or guns
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1. Here, too, they found a bunker.
2. People were in bunkers.
3. He has a bunker.
4. - You picked the bunker?
5. - I picked the bunker.
bunkhouse
/bˈʌŋkhaʊs/
nouna building in which workers can sleep
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cabana
/kəˈbænə/
nouna hut, shelter, or cabin, usually at a swimming pool or beach
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1. Make your way to the cabana.
2. Enjoy the VIP cabana.
3. The cabana is a popular gathering space.
4. - Where's the cabana?
5. Around the pool, You can book cabanas.
cabin
/ˈkæbən/
nouna small wooden house or shelter built in a forest or the mountains
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1. And the cabin, had a wonderful line.
2. The cabin awaits.
3. The cabin might experience sudden pressure loss and a lack of oxygen.
4. The cabin would feature huge windows, comfortable seats, a bathroom, and, of course, a bar.
5. Larger ships normally have separate cabins with a comfortable bed, a wardrobe, a table, and sometimes even personal showers.
clinic
/ˈkɫɪnɪk/
nouna building in which several doctors work together
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1. The system covers every doctor every lab every hospital every clinic.
2. I need clinic.
3. Community neurologists usually have clinic in addition to a weekly call schedule.
4. Today's word is clinic.
5. Here's clinic in a sentence from today's program: "The Roma medical students set up a clinic on the street."
complex
/ˈkɑmpɫɛks/, /kəmˈpɫɛks/
nouna set of buildings of the same type in the same place
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1. He created a complex map of an average human head.
2. He created a complex map of an average human head.
3. The nomenclature of your question was complex.
4. Languages are complex.
5. Space is complex.
consulate
/ˈkɑnsəɫət/
nouna building or office where a consul carries out diplomatic duties
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1. In practical terms, Norwegian expats and tourists had to rely on Swedish consulates.
2. He walks into the consulate.
3. The consulate is undergoing some renovation right now.
4. And to this day, each side has embassies and consulates.
5. The consulate was located almost 15km from the apartment.
cooling tower
/kˈuːlɪŋ tˈaʊɚ/
nouna large, tall, and round building that cools down water for industrial purposes
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dam
/ˈdæm/
nouna 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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1. Tidal dams will connect the filling gate structures with the mainland and McMaster Island.
2. The flood has damaged a dam.
3. This dam could dry out the delta.
4. That’s only possible with the other major type of flood control infrastructure: dams.
5. Low head dams almost always have subcritical flow upstream.
des res
/dˈɛs ɹˈɛz/
nounan apartment or house that a lot of people like to live in
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dormitory
/ˈdɔɹməˌtɔɹi/
nouna college or university building in which students reside
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1. At the Kuitun complex there are multiple dormitories.
2. The whole thing is a dormitory so multiple people can sleep here.
3. The five new law school dormitories house 386 students.
4. My parents pay for the student dormitory.
5. These include dormitories, power, and water-distillation plants, laboratories, and even a few bars.
embassy
/ˈɛmbəsi/
nouna building used as the office or residence of the officials who represent their government in another country
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1. Normally, though, embassies are more concerned with building diplomacy.
2. Embassy staff made a catalogue of their personal effects: Shirley's rosary beads, Barbara's family photographs, Kathleen's white handkerchief with lace.
3. It shares embassies with the Marshall Islands.
4. Embassies can be misleadingly complicated sometimes.
5. In 2013 the Namibian embassy formally requested their return.
factory
/ˈfæktɝi/
nouna building or set of buildings in which products are made, particularly using machines
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1. Then in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed down clothing factories in China.
2. Airline catering kitchens are factories.
3. We moved on to oil refineries and chemical factories, learning about the unit operations behind them.
4. In the mid-1800s, factories began mass-producing matches.
5. Today's word is factory.
flat
/ˈfɫæt/
nouna 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.'
3. The bottom is flat.
4. A flats or a wing? - Flats are, flats or, flats or a drum.
5. Lay the console flat
gallery
/ˈɡæɫɝi/
nouna place in which works of art are shown or sold to the public
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1. Crowds filled galleries of the House long before the noon opening of the session.
2. Spider-Man rogues gallery was so cool.
3. Many galleries have unposted hours.
4. - Clear the gallery.
5. Gallery view gives you the files at the bottom.
gazebo
/ɡɐzˈiːboʊ/
nouna small roofed building with open sides, usually in a garden
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1. Oh, you're going for, you are making a gazebo?
2. Yeah, I always start with a gazebo.
3. This is a little gazebo.
4. There's a gazebo.
5. The gazebo is packed to the rafters.
greenhouse
/ˈɡɹinˌhaʊs/
nouna glass structure used for growing plants in and protecting them from cold weather
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1. The greenhouse will protect the plants from insects, rain, and too much heat from the sun.
2. Long rows of tables fill the greenhouse.
3. The greenhouse has even withstood an earthquake.
4. Greenhouse is the glasshouse, here, the cabin.
5. Greenhouse affect.
guest house
/ɡˈɛst hˈaʊs/
nouna small house separated from a larger one where guests can stay
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1. I was a small child living with my parents guest house.
2. On 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/
nouna large building that houses aircraft
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1. Including the hangars.
2. This is seared hangar with lemongrass chili oil.
3. There's some hangars.
4. absolutely, airport hangar, who books that?
5. One of the new additions to this property is this helicopter hangar.
high-rise
/hˈaɪɹˈaɪz/
nouna very tall building with many floors
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1. And we’ll make this all high-rise.
2. These designs and technologies have helped high-rise buildings to withstand typhoons and earthquakes.
3. A high-rise made of Styrofoam.
4. Traditionally in the 1960s, men would have worn high-rise trousers that set closer to the natural waist.
5. I work at the high-rise.
home
/ˈhoʊm/
nouna place such as a house or apartment where someone lives, particularly with their family
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1. He wanted to know the specific time they had returned home.
2. When he finally went on his sleepy way home, Tom felt sure that he had just made an excellent new friend.
3. Sara's father stays at home.
4. This is in large part, due to home equity being bequeathed from one generation to the next.
5. Spartan girls lived at home with their mothers as they attended school.
hotel
/hoʊˈtɛɫ/
nouna building where we give money to stay and eat food in when we are traveling
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1. Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2. My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
3. Hotels present similar challenges.
4. Hotels have the weirdest lotions.
5. Hotels always have good shrimp cocktails for some reason.
hothouse
/ˈhɑtˌhaʊs/
nouna heated building that is made of glass and is used for growing in plants that need warm weather
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1. 47 million years ago, the world was a hothouse.
2. But in the oceans, life in hothouse Earth became much harder.
3. It's a hothouse of emotion.
4. This is the Age of the Hothouse.
5. Essentially it acted also like a mini hothouse .
inn
/ˈɪn/
nouna small hotel, especially located in the countryside
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1. The inn is loaded.
2. The inn is stacked.
3. In those books, the inns play a similar role.
4. That place would frequently be an inn.
5. You've won an inn.
kiosk
/ˈkiˌɔsk/
nouna small store with an open front selling newspapers, etc.
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1. But there is a kiosk.
2. Our next Turkish word in English is kiosk.
3. The newspaper kiosk inside is open.
4. - Open your own boujee pop tart kiosk.
5. Many airports have tour kiosks for just this purpose.
lab
/ˈɫæb/
nouna place that is used for research, testing, and other scientific or medical experiments
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1. The system covers every doctor every lab every hospital every clinic.
2. An hour later, the lab exploded.
3. But some labs have four.
4. We have labs here
5. Because lab answers the really big question.
death chamber
/dˈɛθ tʃˈeɪmbɚ/
nouna room, located in a prison, in which those who are sentenced to death are executed
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