English > architecture: 4 senses > noun 2, cognition| Meaning | The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings. |
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| Example | "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
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| Category of | arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed | forming or resembling an arch |
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| arch | (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it |
| architectural ornament | (architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance |
| architecture | An architectural product or work |
| art form | (architecture) a form of artistic expression / expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) |
| astylar | lacking columns or pillars |
| attached | Used of buildings joined by common sidewalls |
| attic | (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature |
| build | Be engaged in building |
| column, pillar | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure |
| columniation | (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure |
| conge, congee | (architecture) a concave molding |
| corbel, truss | (architecture) a triangular / triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) |
| corbel | Furnish with a corbel |
| corbel arch | (architecture) an arch constructed of masonry courses that are corbelled until they meet |
| corbel step, corbie-step, corbiestep, crow step | (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall |
| corbie gable | (architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps |
| corner, quoin | (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building |
| cornice | Furnish with a cornice |
| detached | Used of buildings |
| drip, drip mold, drip mould | (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) |
| engaged | built against or attached to a wall |
| entablature | (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof |
| fenestration | The arrangement of windows in a building |
| foliate, foliated | ornamented with foliage or foils |
| foliation, foliage | (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament |
| hip | (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof |
| modillion | (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice |
| order | (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans |
| pier | (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows) |
| pinnacle | (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower |
| shaft, scape | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column |
| spandrel, spandril | An approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them |
| terminus, terminal figure, term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar |
| trabeated, trabeate | not arcuate |
| vaulting | (architecture) a vaulted structure |
| Parts | architectonics, tectonics | The science of architecture |
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| Narrower | urban planning | The branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities |
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| Broader | discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick | A branch of knowledge |
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| fine arts, beaux arts | The study and creation of visual works of art |
| Spanish | arquitectura |
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| Catalan | arquitectura |
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| Adjectives | architectural | of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture |
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