court
courtyard
forecourt
sideboarding
semiattached
outside
but and ben
yard
house wall
room
curtain
terrace
uncentrally
panopticon
asperity
cavity wall
walled
cortile
detached
town
facework
outwall
passageway
stain
environs
quadrangle
purlieu
frontal
Manhattanization
exteriorly
quad
intermural
interbuilding
floor
walling
balcony
embrace
tail-bay
trough
surrounding
snickelway
exterior
scaffoldy
curtain wall
atrium
smeltery
roof
stage
ward
socle
development
sidewall
midstorey
diedre
patio
enceinte
apartment complex
party wall
zone
external
rere
ground level
case
shell
first floor
outdoors
backcourt
bioarchitecture
edifice
casing
building
transition zone
ground floor
house
alley
shut
apartment house
apartment building
portico
space
inner city
side entrance
ground plan
setoff
fortification curtain
flatblock
set-back
subarea
wall
ductwork
offset
northside
city block
block
semiattached
walled
detached
intermural
interbuilding
exterior
scaffoldy
midstorey
but and ben
uncentrally
exteriorly
court
courtyard
forecourt
sideboarding
yard
house wall
room
curtain
terrace
panopticon
asperity
cavity wall
cortile
town
facework
outwall
passageway
stain
environs
quadrangle
purlieu
frontal
Manhattanization
quad
floor
walling
balcony
embrace
tail-bay
trough
surrounding
snickelway
curtain wall
atrium
smeltery
roof
stage
ward
socle
development
sidewall
diedre
patio
enceinte
apartment complex
party wall
zone
external
rere
ground level
case
shell
first floor
outdoors
backcourt
bioarchitecture
edifice
casing
building
transition zone
ground floor
house
alley
shut
apartment house
apartment building
portico
space
inner city
side entrance
ground plan
setoff
fortification curtain
flatblock
set-back
subarea
wall
ductwork
offset
northside
city block
block
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
prep
- On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
- Near, but not in.
- Except, apart from.
- Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.
adv
- Outdoors.
- To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.
- Not in prison.
verb
adj
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
noun
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
noun
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.
- 100 dollars.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- Any spar carried aloft.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- One’s house or home.
- The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
verb
noun
- That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- 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.
- The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
verb
noun
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A single house in such a group.
- The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- The standing area of a sports stadium.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
verb
noun
- An area that protrudes from a surface.
- The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
- A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.
- The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
- The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
noun
noun
adj
- Of or relating to a weather front.
- Parallel to the main axis of the body and at right angles to the sagittal plane.
- Any of the scales of a reptile that lie in the general region of the forehead, more specifically between the eyes and to the anterior of this area.
- Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front.
- Directed against the front or at the main point or issue.
- Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
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
- An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.
- Full acceptance (of something).
- An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.
- An act of enfolding or including.
verb
- To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
- To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.
- To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.
- To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
- To submit to; to undergo.
noun
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle
verb
noun
- A floor or storey of a house.
- A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- A phase.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- An internship.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
verb
- To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- To orchestrate; to carry out.
- To place in position to prepare for use.
- To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
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
- A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- The building of such a project.
- Something which has developed.
- The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
noun
noun
- a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
- any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
- an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
- (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
verb
noun
- The exterior; outward features or appearances.
- Outward appearance.
- Inessential or superficial features.
- A variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.
adj
- Relating to or denoting a medicine or similar substance for use on the outside of the body.
- Having existence independent of the mind.
- Situated near or toward the surface of the body.
- For or concerning students registered with and taking the examinations of a university but not resident there.
- Not contained in the main computer.
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
- Not intrinsic or essential.
- Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered.
- Using a disk or tape drive rather than the main memory.
- Relating to or connected with foreign nations or institutions.
- Having merely the outward appearance of something.
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- an occurrence of something
- a special set of circumstances
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
- the actual state of things
- a portable container for carrying several objects
- a person requiring professional services
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a problem requiring investigation
- a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
- the quantity contained in a case
- nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- a specific state of mind that is temporary
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
- the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
verb
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- a very light narrow racing boat
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
verb
noun
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- the members of a religious community living together
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- aristocratic family line
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- a social unit living together
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
verb
noun
- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
- The area between the outfielders.
- Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
- An establishment where bowling is played.
- The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- A glass marble or taw.
- An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
noun
- A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
- The act or time of shutting; close.
- The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
- A door or cover; a shutter.
verb
- To confine in an enclosed area.
- To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
- To close, to stop being open.
- To close, to stop from being open.
- To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
adj
noun
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
- the interval between two times
- a blank area
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
verb
noun
- Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
- A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A spring of water.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- A point of desperation.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
- A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- A barrier to vision.
- A barrier.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
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
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
verb
- render unsuitable for passage
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- stop from happening or developing
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- run on a block system
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- shape into a block or blocks
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
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