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 |
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 |
timber rattlesnake banded rattlesnake Crotalus horridus horridus | widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States |
timber wolf grey wolf gray wolf Canis lupus | a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America |
baseball bat lumber | an implement used in baseball by the batter |
lumberjack lumber jacket | a short warm outer jacket |
lumber room | a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture) |
structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building |
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 |
timber | a beam made of wood |
timber | a post made of wood |
timber hitch | a hitch used to secure a rope to a log or spar, often supplemented by a half hitch |
timbre timber quality tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound), the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely, the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet |
structural gene | a gene that controls the production of a specific protein or peptide |
construction mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
structural genomics | the branch of genomics that determines the three-dimensional structures of proteins |
structuralism structural sociology | a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals |
structuralism structural anthropology | an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena |
structuralism structural linguistics | linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse |
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 |
structural formula | an expanded molecular formula showing the arrangement of atoms within the molecule |
construction twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
construction industry housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
timber line timberline tree line | line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes |
forest woodland timberland timber | land that is covered with trees and shrubs |
construction worker hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
giant timber bamboo madake kuhiku Phyllostachys bambusoides | large bamboo having thick-walled culms, native of China and perhaps Japan, widely grown elsewhere |
timber tree | any tree that is valued as a source of lumber or timber |
construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
lumber timber | the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material |
structural iron | iron that has been cast or worked in structural shapes |
structural steel | a strong steel that is rolled into shapes that are used in construction |
log lumber | cut lumber, as in woods and forests |
lumber pound | move heavily or clumsily, The heavy man lumbered across the room |
structural | concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study |
structural | affecting or involved in structure or construction, the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters, not ornamental elements, structural damage |
half-timber half-timbered | having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture |
timber-framed | framed by exposed timbers, a magnificently timbered old barn |
structural | relating to or having or characterized by structure, structural engineer, structural errors, structural simplicity |
structural | relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure, structural unemployment in a technological society |
morphologic morphological structural | relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals, morphological differences |
geomorphologic geomorphological morphologic morphological structural | pertaining to geological structure, geomorphological features of the Black Hills, morphological features of granite, structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface |