arched+roof

  • 21Birmingham Snow Hill station — Infobox UK station name = Birmingham Snow Hill manager = London Midland zone = 1 code = BSW locale = Colmore Row, Birmingham borough = City of Birmingham years = 1852 years2 = 1972 years3 = 1987 years4 = 1999 events = Opened events2 = Closed… …

    Wikipedia

  • 22Dormer — For people named Dormer, see Dormer (surname). An English street showing gable dormer windows A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original… …

    Wikipedia

  • 23vault — vault1 [vɔ:lt] noun 1》 a roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches, typical of churches and other large, formal buildings. 2》 a large room or chamber used for storage, especially an underground one.     ↘a secure room in a bank in which… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 24vault — Ⅰ. vault [1] ► NOUN 1) a roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches. 2) a large room or chamber used for storage, especially an underground one. 3) a chamber beneath a church or in a graveyard used for burials. 4) Anatomy the arched roof… …

    English terms dictionary

  • 25vaulter — Ⅰ. vault [1] ► NOUN 1) a roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches. 2) a large room or chamber used for storage, especially an underground one. 3) a chamber beneath a church or in a graveyard used for burials. 4) Anatomy the arched roof… …

    English terms dictionary

  • 26Buddhist temples in Japan — The hondō, or main hall , of Higashi Hongan ji in Kyoto. Along with Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples are the most numerous, famous, and important religious buildings in Japan.[note 1] The Japanese word for a Buddhist temple is tera …

    Wikipedia

  • 27steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …

    Universalium

  • 28Engineering Projects — ▪ 1995 Introduction BRIDGES        Notable Engineering Projects(For Notable Engineering Projects in work, see Table (Notable Engineering Projects).)       As the decade of the 1990s reached its midpoint, the limits to bridge design were being… …

    Universalium

  • 29Air chamber — Chamber Cham ber, n. [F. chambre, fr. L. camera vault, arched roof, in LL. chamber, fr. Gr. ? anything with a vaulted roof or arched covering; cf. Skr. kmar to be crooked. Cf. {Camber}, {Camera}, {Comrade}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A retired room, esp …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 30Chamber — Cham ber, n. [F. chambre, fr. L. camera vault, arched roof, in LL. chamber, fr. Gr. ? anything with a vaulted roof or arched covering; cf. Skr. kmar to be crooked. Cf. {Camber}, {Camera}, {Comrade}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A retired room, esp. an… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English