What's the difference between building and quadrangle?

Building


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Build
  • (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.

Quadrangle


Definition:

  • (n.) A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
  • (n.) A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) zygapophysiales structurally represent a force locked, kinematically contrained four-bar-chain (link quadrangle).
  • (2) This investigation examined how subjects perceived and localized the centers of irregular quadrangles.
  • (3) Chile will attack during their last-16 match against Brazil in Belo Horizonte because not to do so would be to ignore their own most obvious asset, that supremely mobile midfield-into-attack quadrangle.
  • (4) Based on intraoperative TEE findings, corrective procedures included quadrangle resection posterior leaflet with Carpentier ring in four, chordal shortening and chordal transfer anterior leaflet in four, flexible Duran ring for annular dilatation in two, closure of all atrial septal defects (ASD) with pericardial patch in secundum and sinus venosis type (ligation of small anomalous vein in one), and Dacron patch in primum type, myomectomy for HOC and reconstruction of the tricuspid annulus with Duran ring in Ebstein's anomaly.
  • (5) Biomechanical analysis of the stomatognathic system yields that the linkage between posterior and anterior guidance can be modelled by a link quadrangle (throttle crank) with closed linkage.
  • (6) The vast quadrangle at the centre of a sprawling complex of ministerial offices in Delhi has become a rubbish dump for broken furniture, discarded water coolers, broken air conditioners, abandoned telephones and large bags of discarded paper.
  • (7) On the basis of some more specific findings, we suggest that it is not as much the number of correlation quadrangles that determines the saliency of a regularity as it is the degree to which they facilitate or "bootstrap" each other.
  • (8) Misjudgement of orientation is demonstrated in drawings of tilted quadrangles with parallel diagonals.
  • (9) The superior tumors are characterized by the angle between the 2nd 3rd SOV segments not exceeding 100 degrees and by the quadrangle surface of 419 mm2 in average.
  • (10) Quadrangles with parallel LS-axes were systematically judged as differently tilted according to the difference in the orientation of their axes of balance.
  • (11) The sale, to Quadrangle Capital Partners, marks a winding down of Dennis's decade-long publishing foray into the US, which started with the launch of Maxim in 1997.
  • (12) In 2007 Dennis Publishing sold its US magazine interests including Maxim, Stuff and Blender to private equity partners Quadrangle Capital Partners, who own Alpha Media , for a price reported at the time to be about $240m (£121m).
  • (13) On Saxon Square, a pristine quadrangle of shops and cafes at the northern edge of town, I meet Dee and Graham Snape, 68 and 71 respectively, having coffee in the sunshine.
  • (14) Gradually the dramatic triangle begins to emerge – or is it a quadrangle?
  • (15) This mechanism can approximately be replaced by a link quadrangle and mapped by a standard gear.
  • (16) In addition to the first-order regularities of orientational uniformity and midpoint collinearity (Jenkins, 1983), bilateral symmetry (BS) gives rise to second-order relations between two pairs of symmetric elements (represented by correlation quadrangles).
  • (17) Judgements were also influenced by the orientation of an 'axis of balance', which ran through the centre of gravity and the lowermost apex of the quadrangle.
  • (18) The federal government has authorized an additional 9m reais ($2.36m) to the mines ministry for an audit of dams in the so-called iron quadrangle, the heavily mined region in Minas Gerais where the Samarco mine operates.
  • (19) In well-functioning families, this tetrad or quadrangle is wide-spread in the first pair of siblings in the family and tends to be more common in same-sex pairs, suggesting that sibling deidentification is designed to mitigate the relatively intense sibling rivalry characteristic of these pairs and hence to maintain family harmony.
  • (20) The main characteristic determining estimated orientation of the quadrangles was the axis from which the sum of the squared distances to each point of the figure was minimal (the LS-axis).