What's the difference between brickwork and stringcourse?
Brickwork
Definition:
(n.) Anything made of bricks.
(n.) The act of building with or laying bricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) So tough luck for my friend Jennifer, who wanted to take an HND in plastering and brickwork.
(2) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
(3) Georgia's rescuers put up tarpaulins to shield her from the camera lenses as they extracted her through a 10ft square hole in the brickwork and took her to hospital.
(4) At luxury grocery store Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which the campaign group UK Uncut claimed was occupied by around 200 of its supporters, paint was being scrubbed from brickwork.
(5) It gets to the point where, when one character relieves himself against a wall, you half expect to see his yellow discharge cascading down the brickwork at quarter-speed.
(6) This workshop, a hangar on a Stratford industrial estate that feels miles away from any tree, is an attempt to recreate the place where Villar Rojas now conducts most of his experiments: a rustic brickworks just outside his home city of Rosario, in central Argentina.
(7) Modelled on Venetian wine bars or bacari , with style cues from Manhattan's West Village, Polpo had opened the previous year and had helped jolt the moribund Soho dining scene into life with its unpretentious food, exposed brickwork and egalitarian no-bookings policy.
(8) It is a quiet street, sedate, shaded by old trees: a street of tall houses, their facades smooth as white icing, their brickwork the colour of honey.
(9) Under the Royal Docks, where Crossrail is expanding a Victorian tunnel opened in 1878, project manager Linda Miller points to brickwork that was only recently exposed in excavations.
(10) Potteries and brickworks, which need huge amounts of gas and electricity to heat their kilns, are particularly hard hit, as are energy-intensive chemical and steel plants.
(11) Brickwork and steel columns of the insurgents' temporary stronghold poked above the Kabul trees, and commandos who had taken over security in the area shooed away the few curious bystanders.
(12) Today B29 is showing its age and looks more like a dirty old dock than a pool with its crumbling grey concrete, grimy brickwork and old ducts and sections of corroding pipes.
(13) In the midst of trying to reconnect with his hometown, he discovered an old brickworks on the city's outskirts where bricks are made using cow dung.
(14) The shape of the hole made in the upstairs outside wall is still faintly visible under new brickwork and a coat of paint.
(15) Everything is instantly familiar: the beech wood floor and fittings, the exposed brickwork, the chrome coffee machines.
(16) For Warner, chief executive of Michelmersh Brick Holdings , the bustling yard is a welcome sight after the construction sector's deep recession saw brickworks around the country mothballed or closed.
(17) There is a failed concrete roof, water seeping in, pigeons nesting and vegetation growing through the cracks in the brickwork.
(18) From the front, the Rogers' house on a quiet street in Northwich looks just like all the others, its red brickwork identical to millions of other Victorian terraced houses up and down the land.
(19) For decades, groups such as Save Venice and Venice in Peril have campaigned for action as the tides grow worse each year and the damp seeps above the stone footings to decay the ancient brickwork above.
(20) Ibstock, another brick manufacturer, opened a modernised brickworks in Chesterton, Newscastle-under-Lyme, this month and revived a plant in Ibstock, Leicestershire, to meet demand.
Stringcourse
Definition:
(n.) A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.