works deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
bodybuilding anaerobic exercise muscle building musclebuilding | exercise that builds muscles through tension |
construction | drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem, the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem |
construction building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
road construction | the construction of roads |
shipbuilding ship building | the construction of ships |
construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
jerry-building | construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit |
morale building morale booster | anything that serves to increase morale, the sight of flowers every morning was my morale builder |
apartment building apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments |
bank bank building | a building in which the business of banking transacted, the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon |
building edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place, there was a three-story building on the corner, it was an imposing edifice |
building block | a block of material used in construction work |
building complex complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
building supply store building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
Capitol Capitol Building | the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet |
church church building | a place for public (especially Christian) worship, the church was empty |
diplomatic building | government building in which diplomats live or work |
dye-works | a workshop where dyeing is done |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
farm building | a building on a farm |
government building | a building that houses a branch of government |
medical building health facility healthcare facility | building where medicine is practiced |
office building office block | a building containing offices where work is done |
plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
Roman building | a building constructed by the ancient Romans |
sewage system sewer system sewage works | facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage |
structure construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
telecom hotel telco building | a building that houses telecommunications equipment, the telecom hotels are prime targets for bombing |
works workings | the internal mechanism of a device |
construction mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds |
construction grammatical construction expression | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit, I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner |
building permit | a document authorizing the holder to construct a building of a particular kind on a particular lot |
building code | set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings |
construction twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
building | the occupants of a building, the entire building complained about the noise |
construction industry housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
plant department building department | the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant |
works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
building society | British equivalent of United States savings and loan association |
vacant lot building site | a lot on which there are no permanent buildings |
unit building block | a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else, units of nucleic acids |
construction worker hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
a whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works works full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
building material | material used for constructing buildings |
construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
soil-building | (of crops) planted to improve the quality of the soil |