fortification curtain
cavity wall
curtain
curtain wall
gatepier
tied
cancellus
cornerstone
sidewall
spur
squinch
machicolation
barrier
ward
chamber gate
offset
crown
setoff
set-back
ribbed vault
crownwork
angle
flank
portcullis
balcony
stakewall
demilune
toran
heartbond
berm
proscenium arch
bay
multiwalled
vallum
jharokha
propylon
wall tower
party wall
turret
interstructural
parapet
diedre
sideboarding
side entrance
gable end
linch
stonewalled
jetty
obelisk
splayed
chemise
Ordos
forewall
capstone
copestone
pronaos
drum
breastwork
trilithon
twitten
stretcher
coping stone
multispired
hornwork
bailey
A-frame
pier
courtyard
court
stairs
distyle
lantern tower
dyke
tenaille
waterwall
portal
dead angle
vault
floor
Termon
barricade
intermural
ledged
postern
scoinson arch
cant
looplight
sile
sconcheon arch
splay
boundary corner
footbank
gatepost
narthex
front
tied
multiwalled
interstructural
stonewalled
splayed
multispired
distyle
intermural
ledged
fortification curtain
cavity wall
curtain
curtain wall
gatepier
cancellus
cornerstone
sidewall
spur
squinch
machicolation
barrier
ward
chamber gate
offset
crown
setoff
set-back
ribbed vault
crownwork
angle
flank
portcullis
balcony
stakewall
demilune
toran
heartbond
berm
proscenium arch
bay
vallum
jharokha
propylon
wall tower
party wall
turret
parapet
diedre
sideboarding
side entrance
gable end
linch
jetty
obelisk
chemise
forewall
capstone
copestone
pronaos
drum
breastwork
trilithon
twitten
stretcher
coping stone
hornwork
bailey
A-frame
pier
courtyard
court
stairs
lantern tower
dyke
tenaille
waterwall
portal
dead angle
vault
floor
Termon
barricade
postern
scoinson arch
cant
looplight
sile
sconcheon arch
splay
boundary corner
footbank
gatepost
narthex
front
noun
- That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
- Death.
- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
verb
adj
- Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
- Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
- Restricted.
- a cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.
- Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
- Closely connected or associated.
- That resulted in a tie.
noun
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A tern.
- A branch of a vein.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Roots, tree roots.
- A very short branch line of a railway line.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- The short wooden buttress of a post.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
verb
noun
noun
- A structure that bars passage.
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- An object used for guarding.
- A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- Land tenure through military service.
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- A division of a forest.
verb
noun
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a compensating equivalent
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
verb
noun
- The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
- A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
- A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
- The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- The highest part of a hill.
- Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of an arch.
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- The top of a tree.
- The part of a tooth above the gums.
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The topmost part of the head.
- The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
- A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
- A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
verb
- In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To hit on the head.
- To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
- To declare (someone) a winner.
adj
noun
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- A change in direction.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- The focus of a news story.
- The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
verb
- To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- To change direction rapidly.
- To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- To place (something) at an angle.
- To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
noun
- The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
- The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
- The outermost strip of a road.
- The wing, one side of the pitch.
- That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
- A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
- The side of something, in general senses.
- The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
adj
verb
noun
- A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
- A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
- A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
- A terrace formed by wave action along a beach.
- A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- Edge of a road.
- A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
verb
noun
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
- Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
- A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
- A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
- Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- A bay platform.
- A bay window.
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- A horse of this color.
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
- The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- A tract covered with bay trees.
adj
verb
noun
- A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
noun
name
- The Ordos region proper: the area north of the Great Wall section that cuts across the Ordos Loop
- Ordos city in the narrower sense: the urban area located in Dongsheng District.
- A region of China, enclosed by the great northern bend of the Huang He and the Wei river to the south; also called Ordos Loop.
- Ordos prefecture-level city, contiguous with latter region in the northwest of the Ordos Loop, namely the part belonging to Inner Mongolia.
- A Mongolian dialect used in this city.
noun
- The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- A tip; a piece of information.
- A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- Synonym of construction barrel
- A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
verb
- To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- To beat a drum.
- To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
noun
- a stone that forms the top of wall or building
- a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
- a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
- a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
noun
- an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
- an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
- a room in which a law court sits
- the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state
- a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played
- the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
- a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area
- the residence of a sovereign or nobleman
- respectful deference
verb
noun
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
verb
noun
- A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
- A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
- A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
adj
verb
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.
verb
noun
- A storey/story of a building.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- A dance floor.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
verb
noun
- A corner (of a building).
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
verb
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To set (something) at an angle.
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
adj
noun
- A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
- A column; pillar.
- A sieve.
- A young herring.
- The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
- A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
- A strainer or colander for liquids
- That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
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