Definition of building

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Building (n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture..

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Lot :: Lot (n.) A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Remove :: Remove (v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building..
Terrace :: Terrace (v. t.) To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building..
Turnhalle :: Turnhalle (n.) A building used as a school of gymnastics.
Casino :: Casino (n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc..
Bay :: Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers..
Tiler :: Tiler (n.) A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
Prominent :: Prominent (a.) Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the face; a prominent building..
Vatican :: Vatican (n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc..
Nigged :: nigged (n.) Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.
Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..
Outrigger :: Outrigger (n.) Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle..
Prostyle :: Prostyle (n.) A prostyle portico or building.
Tschego :: Tschego (n.) A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo..
Apse :: Apse (n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy..
Over-story :: Over-story (n.) The clearstory, or upper story, of a building..
Weatherboarding :: Weatherboarding (n.) The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc..
Aisle :: Aisle (n.) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall..
Ramline :: Ramline (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel..
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