lean-to
/lˈiːn tuː/
noun
a 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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1There 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.
2Meanwhile, Florence set up a lean-to to and cooked food for her kids.
3It'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.
4Try to make a lean-to.
5Here is the myth number three - a lean-to is a great shelter from bad weather.
lodge
/ˈɫɑdʒ/
noun
a small house in the countryside, where people temporarily stay while participating in an outdoor activity such as climbing, skiing, etc.
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1The lodge was beautiful.
2Masonic lodges still exist.
3Most lodges have at least two different entrances.
4Lodged into the trunks and branches.
5A 150 officer manhunt was hastily lodged.
motel
/moʊˈtɛɫ/
noun
a 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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1Is there a motel?
2More people are coming from the motel.
3- It's a motel.
4Motels are a little bit cheaper.
5We've got underground motels.
observatory
/əbˈzɝvəˌtɔɹi/
noun
a building where scientists observe stars, meteors, the weather, etc. using equipment such as telescope
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1So Maria Mitchell's home on Nantucket became an observatory.
2The observatory was a wooden building.
3So they really infiltrated observatories all over the country.
4This building is the observatory.
5The observatory that overlooks the entire city.
office building
/ˈɑːfɪs bˈɪldɪŋ/
noun
a large building with many offices, especially belonging to various companies

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outbuilding
/aʊtbˈɪldɪŋ/
noun
a small separate building that is built near a main building that it belongs to, such as a shed or barn
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1It 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.
2This is like, some old outbuilding.
3This includes the outbuildings on the property such as a garage or a tool shed.
4Boasting 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.
5Any hidey holes or cracks should be filled around your home and in any outbuildings on your property.
palace
/ˈpæɫəs/
noun
a 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?'
2Palace intrigue shakes one of the Middle East's most historically stable monarchies.
3The palace sure is very beautiful.
4However, his palace was later torn down.
5Which palace is this?
penthouse
/ˈpɛntˌhaʊs/
noun
an apartment on top of a tall building
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1This penthouse is listed for $16.5 million.
2The penthouse where the light is on, with the five arches.
3- It was Penthouse magazine.
4This 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.
5This elevator go to the penthouse?
pier
/ˈpɪɹ/
noun
a long platform built from the shore into the sea that people can go for entertainment or a walk
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1But Pier One hit a major stumbling block with e-commerce.
2By 2019, Pier One had net sales of $1.5 billion dollars, a decrease of 13.7% from the year prior.
3Pier get out -
4The north and south ends of a suspension bridge, particularly the Golden Gate Bridge, are referred to as piers.
5The piers are very, very interesting.
pigpen
/pˈɪɡpən/
noun
a building or an enclosed area for keeping pigs
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1By that time, the possibility had disappeared like a dead miner's body into Mr. Wu's pigpen.
2God is with you in the pigpen.
3The same grace that stayed with you in the pigpen is going to break you out.
4Why are you a pigpen?
Portakabin
/pˈoːɹɾɐkˌæbɪn/
noun
a small moveable building, used as a temporary classroom, office, etc.

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power plant
/pˈaʊɚ plˈænt/
noun
a large building in which electricity is generated
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1Power plants deliver energy.
2A coal-fired power plant produces cheap electricity for its customers and profits for its owners.
3So mercury is emitted from power plants.
4The power plant rule will save this number of lives.
5These are power plants back here.
premises
/ˈpɹɛməsəz/
noun
the building and its surrounding land owned or used by a business
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1OK, so explain to me why you think Premises was better than Terry's.
2So Premises was my favorite for a few reasons.
3You know, there wasn't enough in it for me between Premises and Terry's for me to stick with Premises.
4You know, there wasn't enough in it for me between Premises and Terry's for me to stick with Premises.
prison
/ˈpɹɪzən/
noun
a building where people who did something illegal such as stealing, murder, etc., are kept as a punishment
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1Prisons are seeing an alarming spike.
2Prison tears down people.
3No college meant prison.
4Prisons refuse.
5Woman gets prison for $1.6 million family curse scam.
property
/ˈpɹɑpɝti/
noun
a building, piece of land, or both
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1- We handle properties up to 200 million pounds each.
2Buying property.
3He owned property.
4'We value property.
5Every broker has property.
refinery
/ɹɪˈfaɪnɝi/
noun
a 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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1So we needed refineries, which were basically giant chemical plants.
2We moved on to oil refineries and chemical factories, learning about the unit operations behind them.
3The Royal Dutch Shell company operates the country's only and, quite frankly, very profitable oil refinery.
4These hurricanes caused the price of natural gas to skyrocket due to damaged refineries.
5Destroy refineries by shooting the guards and machinery.
residency
/ˈɹɛzɪdənsi/
noun
the house where an official, such as an ambassador, resides
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1I graduated residency.
2Namely, the rigor of premed, medical school, and residency is unlike anything else.
3Residency starts on July 1st.
4Residency is the culmination of all of that hard work.
5Residency is a hard time.
rotunda
/ɹoʊˈtəndə/
noun
a round hall or building that often has a rounded roof as well
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1Here you will find the Rotunda, the permanent home of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights.
2The centerpiece of this building's rotunda holds the Declaration of Independence.
3The next day, the rotunda was opened up for public viewing.
4We arrive at this beautiful limestone rotunda.
5There's a statue of him in the Capitol rotunda.
self-build
/sˈɛlfbˈɪld/
noun
a home that is constructed by its owner
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1It's a self-building community.
2And another thing is its self-build and design.
3After 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.
4By flying across the border in his self-built airplane.
semi
/ˈsɛmaɪ/, /ˈsɛmi/
noun
a house that is not completely detached from another house and is shared by a wall
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1For example, in December of 2016, Milton unveiled Nikola's first prototype semi-truck, the Nikola One.
2Semi jack tool, just kind of hanging out down there.
3This little gadget actually gives you semi grill marks.
4Got a semi of some sort.
5And my office is semi setup.
shack
/ˈʃæk/
noun
a 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?
3Shake shack. -
4- Shake Shack.
5- Shake Shack.
shed
/ˈʃɛd/
noun
an industrial building in which pieces of equipment or machinery are kept
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1Boss Disney A 2006 biography of Walt Disney by Neal Gabler sheds some light on Walt’s relationship with his employees, trade unions, and communism.
2The planet is shedding metal!
3The rainbow eucalyptus regularly sheds long strips of bark.
4All snakes shed their skin as a response to growth.
5That guy just sheds everywhere.
shelter
/ˈʃɛɫtɝ/
noun
a place or building that is meant to provide protection against danger or bad weather
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1Next up is shelter.
2Members of Congress sheltered.
3These counties will open up shelters.
4The hills here sheltered not only The Front's base, but anti-communist Lao guerrillas as well.
5Hundreds of thousands of people were given shelter.
skyscraper
/ˈskaɪsˌkɹeɪpɝ/
noun
a modern building that is very tall, often built in a city
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1Skyscrapers have other design problems.
2Skyscrapers are so visible.
3Skyscrapers are a marvel of technology.
4Skyscrapers dominate the cityscape here too.
5His movie is Skyscraper.
slaughterhouse
/ˈsɫɔtɝˌhaʊs/
noun
a building in which animals are killed to be later used as food
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1Slaughterhouses across the U.S., Canada and Australia have shut down after a new ransomware attack.
2Slaughterhouse workers would style early condoms out of sausage skins.
3Large slaughterhouses have lower costs.
4It has two slaughterhouses, one in Brörup and one Thisted.
5Smaller slaughterhouses may use individual killing cones.
stable
/ˈsteɪbəɫ/
noun
a building on a farm to house horses
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1Our volume of cases and adjudication timeliness is stable.
2My husband's job is stable.
3The fetus is stable.
4His blood pressure was stable.
5This patient is stable.
summer house
/sˈʌmɚ hˈaʊs/
noun
a small building, often located in a park or garden, where people can sit in and relax during summer
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1Anna isolated HERSELF and her SON at their Summer House.
2When 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.
3Now, I was not about to wear sweats to the Summer House!
tenement
/ˈtɛnəmənt/
noun
a large building consisting of several apartments, particularly in a poor neighborhood
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1And often these tenement apartments doubled as workspaces because many immigrant women and children took in piecework, especially in the garment industry.
2I live at tenement.
3I grew up in tenement buildings in the inner city.
4Tuberculosis then thrived in slums and tenements, among industrial workers, and among the inmates of almshouses, prisons, barracks.
5Again, this is from Jacob Riis, a tenement in New York City.
tower
/ˈtaʊɝ/
noun
a tall and often narrow building that stands alone or is part of a castle, church, or other larger buildings
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1The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
2One57 towers almost a thousand feet above West 57th Street.
3Thrown off towers.
4Tower, give me the clearance.
5The flashes, the booms, illuminated the tower.
tower block
/tˈaʊɚ blˈɑːk/
noun
a very tall building that is divided into several apartments or offices

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villa
/ˈvɪɫə/
noun
a country house that has a large garden, particularly the one located in southern Europe or warm regions
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1The Federal commander, General Victoriano Huerta, detested Villa.
2This modern villa is a dream home.
3Now part of this is villas.
4Others had villas on the Island of Capri.
5So each villa has a media room, exotic fish tanks, golf simulators.
warehouse
/ˈwɛɹˌhaʊs/
noun
a large place in which raw materials or produced goods are stored before they are sold or distributed
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1Overall, warehouses with robots actually had higher injury rates.
2So those people warehouse that data for two to three years.
3Their warehouses are zero waste.
4The warehouse sends the product to the customer.
5The warehouse has several different functions.
windmill
/ˈwɪndˌmɪɫ/
noun
a 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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1Also windmills.
2He loved windmills.
3He blamed windmills.
4He sees windmills.
5Here are windmills with people.
self-build
/sˈɛlfbˈɪld/
noun
a process during which someone constructs their own house rather than tasking a professional builder to do so
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1It's a self-building community.
2And another thing is its self-build and design.
3After 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.
4By flying across the border in his self-built airplane.

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