nogging
post and lintel
summer
girt
girder
summertree
bolster
tie beam
traverse
crossbeam
crosspiece
trave
truss
joist
tie
framework
lintel
trabeated
header
column
bressummer
dwang
standard
groundsill
box girder
ladder beam
vault
sister
microbeam
power pole
tieback wall
transom
shore
king post
shoring
scaffold
horizontic
horizontical
skeleton
shearpole
beam
plate
beamed
horizontalness
structural
pilaster
trabecula
interbeam
diagrid
cantilever
L-beam
stilt
pile
soffit
spile
lift
upstand
chord
building block
piling
abutment
needle
beamlike
half-timbered
Samson post
trimmer
Roberval balance
welt
shearwall
balk
ledge
H-beam
railings
sill
stile
walking beam
madrier
pile driver
camber beam
collar
glulam
timber
crib
stud
raftage
shive
minibeam
rebar
ladder handle
gain
trabeated
horizontic
horizontical
beamed
interbeam
upstand
beamlike
half-timbered
nogging
post and lintel
summer
girt
girder
summertree
bolster
tie beam
traverse
crossbeam
crosspiece
trave
truss
joist
tie
framework
lintel
header
column
bressummer
dwang
standard
groundsill
box girder
ladder beam
vault
microbeam
power pole
tieback wall
transom
shore
king post
shoring
scaffold
skeleton
shearpole
beam
plate
horizontalness
structural
pilaster
trabecula
diagrid
cantilever
L-beam
stilt
pile
soffit
spile
lift
chord
building block
piling
abutment
needle
Samson post
trimmer
Roberval balance
welt
shearwall
balk
ledge
H-beam
railings
sill
stile
walking beam
madrier
pile driver
camber beam
collar
glulam
timber
stud
raftage
shive
minibeam
rebar
ladder handle
gain
sister
crib
noun
- A horizontal beam supporting a building.
- A machine or algorithm that sums.
- Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A person who sums.
- One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
- year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
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adj
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adj
verb
noun
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- A large cushion or pillow.
- A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
verb
noun
- A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- A triangular bracket.
- Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
verb
noun
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
verb
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- make by tying pieces together
- unite musical notes by a tie
noun
- The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- A basic conceptual structure.
- These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
- A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
noun
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- a headlong jump (or fall)
noun
- A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
- The gynostemium
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
noun
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- any distinctive flag
adj
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
adj
noun
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- Any archive of past content.
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- An encrypted digital archive.
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
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verb
noun
- A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
- A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
- A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- Something in the same class.
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- A black woman.
- Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
- A form of address to a woman.
noun
- The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
- The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.
- A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
- Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.
- Items that have arrived over the transom.
- A transom window.
- A horizontal dividing bar in a window.
noun
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- A structure that provides support for some other material.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
verb
adj
adj
noun
- A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- A very thin person.
- The network of veins in a leaf.
- A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- A very thin form of light-faced type.
- Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
noun
- One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
- One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
- A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
- The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
- Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- The pole of a carriage or chariot.
- A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
- In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
- The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- A ray; a gleam.
- An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
- The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
verb
- To put (something) on a beam.
- To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
- To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
- To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
- To furnish or supply with beams.
- To give the appearance of beams to.
- To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
- To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
- To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
noun
- structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- the quantity contained in a plate
- a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- the thin under portion of the forequarter
- a main course served on a plate
- any flat platelike body structure or part
- the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
verb
noun
- A column or short wing wall attached to the foundation wall which provides lateral support, or to support a vertical load that does not fall on the foundation wall.
- A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it attached; it gives the appearance of a support, but is only for decoration.
noun
- A small supporting beam.
- One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
- A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.
- A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
- A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
- Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
adj
noun
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground
- long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
- long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
noun
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
verb
noun
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A thief.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- Air.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- An improvement in mood.
- The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
verb
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To arrest (a person).
- To steal.
- to cause to move upwards.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To raise or rise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
noun
- A horizontal member of a truss.
- A straight line between two points of a curve.
- A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- A cord.
- An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- The string of a musical instrument.
verb
noun
- A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
- The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
- The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
- A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
- The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
- That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
- The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
- Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
- The state of abutting.
noun
- A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
- A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
- Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
- A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
- A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
- A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
- The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
- Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
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noun
- A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- A device used to trim.
- A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- A member of the crew who trims the sails.
noun
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
- A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
- A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.
- A cornice.
- A (door or window) lintel.
- A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
- A provincial or territorial legislature building.
- A layer or stratum.
- A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
verb
noun
- A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- A young herring.
- The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
adj
noun
- A collar beam.
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- An arrest.
- The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
- A similar detachable item.
- A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
- Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
- Any encircling device or structure.
- An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
- A ring or cincture.
- A chain worn around the neck.
verb
- To bind in conversation.
- To arrest.
- To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To seize, capture or detain.
- To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
- To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
verb
noun
- baby bed with high sides made of slats
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
- a bin or granary for storing grains
- the cards discarded by players at cribbage
- a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
noun
- A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.
- A stud bolt.
- A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A group of such animals.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- A small round earring.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- A sexually attractive male.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
verb
noun
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
noun
- A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- The thing or things gained.
- The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
verb
- To increase.
- To reach.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- To put on weight.
- To run fast.
- To acquire possession of.
- To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
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