(n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
(n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
(n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
(18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
Outbuilding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outbuild
(n.) A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The remote Heydalur hot pot in the Westfjords Eventually the hotel Heydalur (doubles from £59) appears, a hillside of random outbuildings.
(2) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(3) If the river is safe to cross, then do so and make the short few steps past the barn and outbuildings up to Glencoul bothy.
(4) Derby city council said demolition was likely to take up to two weeks, beginning with the outbuildings and roofing structures.
(5) Men, women and children smiled with relief on reaching German soil, and police shepherded them from the platform to a station outbuilding to be registered.
(6) To protect them, French and Swiss farmers who constructed Alpine farms, mainly between 1776 and 1828, also added a separate outbuilding, raised to prevent rodents getting in, and out of the reach of potential flames.
(7) The farm was bought by Mather's family 60 years ago: now, HS2 will take away 19 of their 23 acres, and 60% of land that they rent close by, along with their farmhouse and outbuildings.
(8) A bit later, I was standing in the yard in a pair of borrowed wellies when the single crack of a high-velocity rifle - like a wooden ruler snapped across the knee - echoed around the walls of the outbuildings.
(9) Peel's is probably the most celebrated record collection in Britain: 26,000 albums, 40,000 singles and countless CDs, which spread out of Peel's office and took over a variety of rooms and outbuildings in the home near Stowmarket he invariably referred to as Peel Acres.
(10) The house used to be owned by the Wrigley family – of chewing gum fame – and the poppers are produced in outbuildings on the property’s acre of land before being distributed to wholesalers around the world.
(11) 6km from Odeceixe beach Newly opened this summer, Monte West Coast is a 50-hectare estate in a lush valley where an old watermill and outbuildings on the Seixe river have been converted into six stylish self-catering houses (sleeping between two and six; two have fridges but no kitchen).
(12) Along with some outbuildings on a Syrian airfield, conservative media was set alight.
(13) He joined an outcry in the area after the charity bought the land and sheep of Thorneythwaite farm, but not its farmhouse or outbuildings, last month.
(14) Weald of Kent already gets a lot of girls from Sevenoaks.” But for Mary Boyle, head of Knole academy, one of two all-ability schools in Sevenoaks, “an annexe is an outbuilding or a shed on the school property.
(15) If you do smell petrol fumes in a garage or outbuilding ventilate the area and make sure nobody smokes or turns electrical switches on or off.
(16) The property, acquired by the family in 1871, was originally set in gardens laid out to "provide the typical charms of both the Greek and English countryside" and, as such, comes with some 40 outbuildings, stables, a swimming pool and several royal graves.
(17) The house is set among trees, behind an unlocked gate, and there are ramshackle outbuildings covered in creepers.
(18) The fire has destroyed four homes and 12 outbuildings and was only 2% contained as of Friday.
(19) This indicated the presence of infective eggs of the parasite inside the house and outbuildings, an important observation concerning the circulation of the parasite in a domestic environment.
(20) He showed us around his hive-making workshop and the outbuilding where his lovely raw honey is stored.