| 单词 | building material |
| 释义 | building material (once / 6059 pages) n WORD FAMILY building material: building materials USAGE EXAMPLESDepartment of Agriculture and the softwood industry that’s intended to promote CLT as a domestic building material. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) He’s used a number of different building materials; including a 30-foot telephone pole used for that first structure in 2000. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) Chan School of Public Health, where he directs the Healthy Buildings program and acts as the faculty adviser to the Harvard Healthy Building Materials Academy. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) n material used for constructing buildings Exp|Hypo|Hyper Blarney Stone a stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it Rosetta Stonea part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics brick rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material building blocka block of material used in construction work stonebuilding material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose bricks and mortarbuilding material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them cementa building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar concretea strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water covering materiala material used by builders to cover surfaces fencing, fencing materialmaterial for building fences flooringbuilding material used in laying floors gunitea mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure insulant, insulating material, insulationa material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity lath and plastera building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster lumber, timberthe wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material mortarused as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall roofing materialbuilding material used in constructing roofs shake, shinglebuilding material used as siding or roofing sidingmaterial applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof staffbuilding material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration sticks and stonea general term for building materials wattle and daubbuilding material consisting of interwoven rods and twigs covered with clay adobe, adobe bricksun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates ashlara rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretchera stone that forms the top of wall or building breeze block, cinder block, clinker blocka light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate clinker, clinker bricka hard brick used as a paving stone cornerstonea stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls cornerstonea stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies firebrickbrick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys foundation stonea stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building gravestone, headstone, tombstonea stone that is used to mark a grave grindstonea revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools cope, coping, headerbrick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall hearthstonea stone that forms a hearth headstone, key, keystonethe central building block at the top of an arch or vault millstoneone of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain monolitha single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) mud bricka brick made from baked mud paving stonea stone used for paving impost, springerthe lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs stela, stelean ancient upright stone slab bearing markings stocklumber used in the construction of something stripthin piece of wood or metal voussoirwedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault whetstonea flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives laggingused to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat cementconcrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement ferroconcrete, reinforced concreteconcrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses Portland cement, hydraulic cementa cement that hardens under water; made by heating limestone and clay in a kiln and pulverizing the result corkboarda heat-insulating building material consisting of cork granules that are made into sheets by compressing and baking fiberglass, fibreglassa covering material made of glass fibers in resins lino, linoleuma floor covering roofing paper, tar papera heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing plastera mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings puddlea mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry slate, slatingthin layers of rock used for roofing thatchplant stalks used as roofing material roofing tile, tilea thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing board, planka stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes plankingplanks collectively; a quantity of planks clapboard, weatherboard, weatherboardinga long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole |
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