(n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.
(n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
Example Sentences:
(1) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
(2) A study was performed in a ten-years period (1980-1990) inside a metallic carpentry department.
(3) A third man, from Poland, who was hoping to translate the skills he had acquired as a long-term volunteer in a bird-house-making charity into paid carpentry work, went dramatically downhill when worked failed to materialise.
(4) Designed by New Art Gallery Walsall architect Caruso St John for Hirst's company Science Ltd, the gallery will be housed inside a long terrace of listed buildings, formerly used as theatre carpentry and scenery production workshops, and will be flanked by new buildings.
(5) Substantial seasonal variation was noted for the most common activities: gardening, carpentry, lawn mowing, golf, and running for men; and gardening, swimming, health club exercise, dancing, and bicycling for women.
(6) During his time in detention, he has attended English and art classes, in addition to acquiring carpentry and cooking skills.
(7) Courtesy: National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago The project also encouraged self-help: faced with the challenge of building a house, residents learnt carpentry and plumbing skills which they passed on to their neighbours.
(8) Clients will be tested for vocational aptitude and four workshops will be developed on the premises - carpentry, automotive, electricity and clerical.
(9) We hoped that he would work with me in my carpentry business and one day take over.
(10) The highest industry specific OCTS rates were found in the food processing, carpentry, egg production, wood products, and logging industries.
(11) Joe, who for years had to rely on more established mates to pass him carpentry jobs, now has an HQ, a client base and an enterprise.
(12) Unlike most Transcendentalists, he could do things - tend garden and make home repairs for Emerson, or actualise with real carpentry Bronson Alcott's fanciful vision of a summerhouse.
(13) Unlike earlier observations, these findings are not affected by the "healthy worker bias" and support the relationship that carpentry is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease.
(14) Carpentry was the occupation in four patients; inspector for railroad boxcars in one; teacher in a wood-work shop in another and worker in a desk factory in the other.
(15) Other job categories associated with lung cancer included: electricians and workers in electrical machine production, woodworkers (in furniture or cabinet making, but not in carpentry or joinery) and cleaning services.
(16) Funded by the Canadian government’s department of foreign affairs, the project has seen more than 250 local craftspeople trained to international conservation standards, in workshops covering everything from traditional lime plaster to architectural carpentry, brickwork and roofing.
(17) I’m really interested in carpentry: we have a workshop for making boxes and knives.” “We study maths but without having a teacher to explain to us,” says Athari.
(18) He loves home life – he loves carpentry, he loves making things.
(19) In contrast, no excess of gastric cancer could be detected in men working in the manufacture of wooden building materials and wooden furniture, and a risk below unity was seen for those in carpentry and joinery.
(20) • Doubles from $84 B&B, +51 84 204014, elalbergue.com Las Casitas del Arco Iris, Urubamba Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amid pretty gardens full of hummingbirds, swallows and butterflies, this lovely posada (guesthouse) is run by Niños del Arco Iris , a non-profit foundation that runs five programmes for deprived children and youngsters, offering healthcare and education, including careers in carpentry, wood sculpture and industrial sewing.
Cramp
Definition:
(n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
(n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
(n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
(n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
(v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
(v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
(v. t.) to bind together; to unite.
(v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
(v. t.) To afflict with cramp.
(n.) Knotty; difficult.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(2) Toxicity included an increase in body weight, cushingoid effects, muscle cramps, and tremors in both groups.
(3) Primary amenorrhea and cyclic, cramping lower abdominal pain was the common symptoms of all the patients.
(4) The 1st gynecologic consultant was called after the patient experienced severe cramps and passage of part of a placenta.
(5) Among the observed side effects were moderate pelvic cramps (20.9%), nausea (27%), fainting (4.8%); 61.3% of the women complained of fatigue.
(6) When there's a very limited stock of social housing, and very long waiting lists for people who need it, and lots of big families living in very cramped conditions, that isn't wrong at all.
(7) They also complained of exercise-induced stiffening and cramps of their leg muscles.
(8) Mark Leech, editor of ConVerse , the national newspaper for prisoners, said the former MP should expect "to find himself in a prison reception that is cramped, cold and busy – with up to 200 prisoners being processed each day".
(9) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(10) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(11) For chronic phantom and stump pain, burning sensations are treated with interventions designed to increase blood flow to the residual limb, whereas cramping sensations are treated with interventions that reduce muscle spasms.
(12) Post-prandial cramping abdominal pain may be an early symptom of thrombosis, demanding immediate anticoagulation.
(13) Our purpose was to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of single oral doses of ketoprofen 25, 50, and 100 mg compared with aspirin 650 mg and placebo in the relief of moderate to severe postepisiotomy, uterine cramping, or cesarean section pain.
(14) Photograph: Rozena Crossman Despite its small size, the café has a lighter and more modern atmosphere than the cramped bookshop next door, a famous hub for influential writers.
(15) The four-bedroom apartments are cramped and austere, but they sell for more than $100,000.
(16) Epidural morphine is used for postcesarean analgesia, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are frequently administered to relieve uterine cramps after vaginal delivery.
(17) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
(18) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
(19) 65% (140) quit because of side effects, usually pregnancy-like symptoms (such as nausea or weight gain), or menstrual symptoms (such as hemorrhaging or cramps).
(20) Funes Mori will commence a three-match ban on Saturday, John Stones was forced out of the derby with stomach cramps, Phil Jagielka is recovering from a hamstring strain and Seamus Coleman is almost certainly out with a similar injury.