lean-to
/lˈiːn tuː/
nouna building of small size, such as a shed or garage, that shares a wall and roof with a building of larger size
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1. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.
2. Meanwhile, Florence set up a lean-to to and cooked food for her kids.
3. It's a very plebeian space, where his mother sold tobacco on the first floor and family possessions and living space was in a sort of second floor lean-to.
4. Try to make a lean-to.
5. Here is the myth number three - a lean-to is a great shelter from bad weather.
lodge
/ˈɫɑdʒ/
nouna small house in the countryside, where people temporarily stay while participating in an outdoor activity such as climbing, skiing, etc.
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1. The lodge was beautiful.
2. Masonic lodges still exist.
3. Most lodges have at least two different entrances.
4. Lodged into the trunks and branches.
5. A 150 officer manhunt was hastily lodged.
motel
/moʊˈtɛɫ/
nouna hotel near the road suitable for people who are on a road trip, usually with rooms arranged in a row and parking places outside
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1. Is there a motel?
2. More people are coming from the motel.
3. - It's a motel.
4. Motels are a little bit cheaper.
5. We've got underground motels.
observatory
/əbˈzɝvəˌtɔɹi/
nouna building where scientists observe stars, meteors, the weather, etc. using equipment such as telescope
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1. So Maria Mitchell's home on Nantucket became an observatory.
2. The observatory was a wooden building.
3. So they really infiltrated observatories all over the country.
4. This building is the observatory.
5. The observatory that overlooks the entire city.
office building
/ˈɑːfɪs bˈɪldɪŋ/
nouna large building with many offices, especially belonging to various companies
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outbuilding
/aʊtbˈɪldɪŋ/
nouna small separate building that is built near a main building that it belongs to, such as a shed or barn
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1. It was pretty obvious within the first few weeks that we couldn't live with all the different species of the animals inside our living space, so we re- we renovated and we insulated a small outbuilding, and that's where the animals - most of the animals - were housed for that first winter.
2. This is like, some old outbuilding.
3. This includes the outbuildings on the property such as a garage or a tool shed.
4. Boasting 23 bedrooms, an outbuilding with four apartments, a 3,000 gallon outdoor hot tub, and a private marina, it was built by Louis, G. Kaufman, co-founder of General Motors, in 1923.
5. Any hidey holes or cracks should be filled around your home and in any outbuildings on your property.
palace
/ˈpæɫəs/
nouna large building that is the official home of a powerful or very important person such as a king, queen, pope, etc.
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1. 'Where is your palace?'
2. Palace intrigue shakes one of the Middle East's most historically stable monarchies.
3. The palace sure is very beautiful.
4. However, his palace was later torn down.
5. Which palace is this?
penthouse
/ˈpɛntˌhaʊs/
nounan apartment on top of a tall building
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1. This penthouse is listed for $16.5 million.
2. The penthouse where the light is on, with the five arches.
3. - It was Penthouse magazine.
4. This penthouse features 6,000 square feet on three levels, three bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, and the most magnificent penthouse pavilion pool with panoramic views of all of Manhattan.
5. This elevator go to the penthouse?
pier
/ˈpɪɹ/
nouna long platform built from the shore into the sea that people can go for entertainment or a walk
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1. But Pier One hit a major stumbling block with e-commerce.
2. By 2019, Pier One had net sales of $1.5 billion dollars, a decrease of 13.7% from the year prior.
3. Pier get out -
4. The north and south ends of a suspension bridge, particularly the Golden Gate Bridge, are referred to as piers.
5. The piers are very, very interesting.
pigpen
/pˈɪɡpən/
nouna building or an enclosed area for keeping pigs
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1. By that time, the possibility had disappeared like a dead miner's body into Mr. Wu's pigpen.
2. God is with you in the pigpen.
3. The same grace that stayed with you in the pigpen is going to break you out.
4. Why are you a pigpen?
Portakabin
/pˈoːɹɾɐkˌæbɪn/
nouna small moveable building, used as a temporary classroom, office, etc.
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power plant
/pˈaʊɚ plˈænt/
nouna large building in which electricity is generated
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1. Power plants deliver energy.
2. A coal-fired power plant produces cheap electricity for its customers and profits for its owners.
3. So mercury is emitted from power plants.
4. The power plant rule will save this number of lives.
5. These are power plants back here.
premises
/ˈpɹɛməsəz/
nounthe building and its surrounding land owned or used by a business
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1. OK, so explain to me why you think Premises was better than Terry's.
2. So Premises was my favorite for a few reasons.
3. You know, there wasn't enough in it for me between Premises and Terry's for me to stick with Premises.
4. You know, there wasn't enough in it for me between Premises and Terry's for me to stick with Premises.
prison
/ˈpɹɪzən/
nouna building where people who did something illegal such as stealing, murder, etc., are kept as a punishment
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1. Prisons are seeing an alarming spike.
2. Prison tears down people.
3. No college meant prison.
4. Prisons refuse.
5. Woman gets prison for $1.6 million family curse scam.
property
/ˈpɹɑpɝti/
nouna building, piece of land, or both
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1. - We handle properties up to 200 million pounds each.
2. Buying property.
3. He owned property.
4. 'We value property.
5. Every broker has property.
refinery
/ɹɪˈfaɪnɝi/
nouna factory in which a natural substance such as oil or sugar is made pure by removing all other substances from it
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1. So we needed refineries, which were basically giant chemical plants.
2. We moved on to oil refineries and chemical factories, learning about the unit operations behind them.
3. The Royal Dutch Shell company operates the country's only and, quite frankly, very profitable oil refinery.
4. These hurricanes caused the price of natural gas to skyrocket due to damaged refineries.
5. Destroy refineries by shooting the guards and machinery.
residency
/ˈɹɛzɪdənsi/
nounthe house where an official, such as an ambassador, resides
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1. I graduated residency.
2. Namely, the rigor of premed, medical school, and residency is unlike anything else.
3. Residency starts on July 1st.
4. Residency is the culmination of all of that hard work.
5. Residency is a hard time.
rotunda
/ɹoʊˈtəndə/
nouna round hall or building that often has a rounded roof as well
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1. Here you will find the Rotunda, the permanent home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights.
2. The centerpiece of this building's rotunda holds the Declaration of Independence.
3. The next day, the rotunda was opened up for public viewing.
4. We arrive at this beautiful limestone rotunda.
5. There's a statue of him in the Capitol rotunda.
self-build
/sˈɛlfbˈɪld/
nouna home that is constructed by its owner
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1. It's a self-building community.
2. And another thing is its self-build and design.
3. After a series of adventures, he settled down on his own tropical island in Panama with a self-built home, a few chickens and a new girlfriend.
4. By flying across the border in his self-built airplane.
semi
/ˈsɛmaɪ/, /ˈsɛmi/
nouna house that is not completely detached from another house and is shared by a wall
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1. For example, in December of 2016, Milton unveiled Nikola's first prototype semi-truck, the Nikola One.
2. Semi jack tool, just kind of hanging out down there.
3. This little gadget actually gives you semi grill marks.
4. Got a semi of some sort.
5. And my office is semi setup.
shack
/ˈʃæk/
nouna small and simple building, often made of metal or wood, that is built poorly
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1. - Shake shack.
2. -In-N-Out or Shake Shack?
3. Shake shack. -
4. - Shake Shack.
5. - Shake Shack.
shed
/ˈʃɛd/
nounan industrial building in which pieces of equipment or machinery are kept
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1. Boss Disney A 2006 biography of Walt Disney by Neal Gabler sheds some light on Walt’s relationship with his employees, trade unions, and communism.
2. The planet is shedding metal!
3. The rainbow eucalyptus regularly sheds long strips of bark.
4. All snakes shed their skin as a response to growth.
5. That guy just sheds everywhere.
shelter
/ˈʃɛɫtɝ/
nouna place or building that is meant to provide protection against danger or bad weather
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1. Next up is shelter.
2. Members of Congress sheltered.
3. These counties will open up shelters.
4. The hills here sheltered not only The Front's base, but anti-communist Lao guerrillas as well.
5. Hundreds of thousands of people were given shelter.
skyscraper
/ˈskaɪsˌkɹeɪpɝ/
nouna modern building that is very tall, often built in a city
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1. Skyscrapers have other design problems.
2. Skyscrapers are so visible.
3. Skyscrapers are a marvel of technology.
4. Skyscrapers dominate the cityscape here too.
5. His movie is Skyscraper.
slaughterhouse
/ˈsɫɔtɝˌhaʊs/
nouna building in which animals are killed to be later used as food
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1. Slaughterhouses across the U.S., Canada and Australia have shut down after a new ransomware attack.
2. Slaughterhouse workers would style early condoms out of sausage skins.
3. Large slaughterhouses have lower costs.
4. It has two slaughterhouses, one in Brörup and one Thisted.
5. Smaller slaughterhouses may use individual killing cones.
stable
/ˈsteɪbəɫ/
nouna building on a farm to house horses
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1. Our volume of cases and adjudication timeliness is stable.
2. My husband's job is stable.
3. The fetus is stable.
4. His blood pressure was stable.
5. This patient is stable.
summer house
/sˈʌmɚ hˈaʊs/
nouna small building, often located in a park or garden, where people can sit in and relax during summer
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1. Anna isolated HERSELF and her SON at their Summer House.
2. When we get home tonight I'm going to polish your Xbox point is more than ANYTHING, I could tell that Ariel wanted to go to the Summer House I started saving up, delivering newspapers, mowing lawns.
3. Now, I was not about to wear sweats to the Summer House!
tenement
/ˈtɛnəmənt/
nouna large building consisting of several apartments, particularly in a poor neighborhood
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1. And often these tenement apartments doubled as workspaces because many immigrant women and children took in piecework, especially in the garment industry.
2. I live at tenement.
3. I grew up in tenement buildings in the inner city.
4. Tuberculosis then thrived in slums and tenements, among industrial workers, and among the inmates of almshouses, prisons, barracks.
5. Again, this is from Jacob Riis, a tenement in New York City.
tower
/ˈtaʊɝ/
nouna tall and often narrow building that stands alone or is part of a castle, church, or other larger buildings
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1. The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
2. One57 towers almost a thousand feet above West 57th Street.
3. Thrown off towers.
4. Tower, give me the clearance.
5. The flashes, the booms, illuminated the tower.
tower block
/tˈaʊɚ blˈɑːk/
nouna very tall building that is divided into several apartments or offices
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villa
/ˈvɪɫə/
nouna country house that has a large garden, particularly the one located in southern Europe or warm regions
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1. The Federal commander, General Victoriano Huerta, detested Villa.
2. This modern villa is a dream home.
3. Now part of this is villas.
4. Others had villas on the Island of Capri.
5. So each villa has a media room, exotic fish tanks, golf simulators.
warehouse
/ˈwɛɹˌhaʊs/
nouna large place in which raw materials or produced goods are stored before they are sold or distributed
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1. Overall, warehouses with robots actually had higher injury rates.
2. So those people warehouse that data for two to three years.
3. Their warehouses are zero waste.
4. The warehouse sends the product to the customer.
5. The warehouse has several different functions.
windmill
/ˈwɪndˌmɪɫ/
nouna large, tall building with long blades, called sails, that turn in the wind, used to make flour out of grain or produce electricity
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1. Also windmills.
2. He loved windmills.
3. He blamed windmills.
4. He sees windmills.
5. Here are windmills with people.
self-build
/sˈɛlfbˈɪld/
nouna process during which someone constructs their own house rather than tasking a professional builder to do so
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1. It's a self-building community.
2. And another thing is its self-build and design.
3. After a series of adventures, he settled down on his own tropical island in Panama with a self-built home, a few chickens and a new girlfriend.
4. By flying across the border in his self-built airplane.