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acoustical tile: sound-absorbent ceiling tiles made with slotted insulation board, polystyrene, or fiberglass adobe: mixture of reddish clay, straw, and water, used for building walls aggregate: cement formulation made from sand gravel, and rock fragments, used especially for tiles and shingles alloy: metal that is a mixture of two or more metals or a metal and nonmetal aluminum: lightweight, non-corrosive metal used in various forms aluminum screen: fine mesh formed of aluminum wires aluminum shavings: tiny, curled shreds of aluminum aluminum siding: aluminum panels for exterior walls asbestos tile: insulating tiles made from fireproof fibrous mineral ashlar: thin, square-cut, dressed stone used for facing masonry walls asphalt: brown or black bituminous coal tar residue used for paving and to make roofing tiles asphalt shingle: asphalt sheet cut into flat shingles asphalt tile: asphalt squares used in roofing barbed wire: strands of twisted wire with sharp barbs projecting at regular intervals, used for fencing bead: small, round piece of glass, metal, or wood, usu. strung with others like it bitumen natural asphalt; hard or semi-solid tarlike residue from distilled coal, wood tar, or petroleum blacktop bituminous asphalt mixture, used for road surfaces brass: yellowish alloy of copper and zinc brick: molded clay baked into hard oblong blocks, especially of reddish-brown color, used as building blocks brickface: flat material with appearance of red bricks, used for decoration, not structural support brownstone: reddish-brown sandstone used in large blocks for building cable: strands of heavy wire wound to form metal rope capstone: stone in top layer of masonry wall castiron: hard, molded iron alloy cast stone: block of concrete made to resemble natural stone ceiling tile: tile made from acoustical material or fiberboard, used in ceiling cement: powder of lime and clay mixed with water and sand into mortar that hardens when dry; concrete ceramic: clay pottery, earthenware ceramic tile: fired clay tiles with hard glaze chain: series of connected metal links chain link: galvanized steel links interwoven into fencing chicken wire: thin, flexible wire fencing with large, hexagonal mesh chrome: chromium alloy used in plating chromium hard grayish-white metal, highly resistant to corrosion, used especially in alloys cinder aggregate: mixture of concrete and small rock fragments cinderblock concrete and cinder aggregate building block in any of various shapes, typically having a lateral hole through its center clay brick: brick molded from clay cobble: cobblestone cobblestone: rounded stone used in paving; cobble common brick: standard size, oblong, reddish-brown brick red brick concrete: mixture of cement, sand, gravel, and water that dries to form hard surface copestone: stone used in top layer of masonry copper: reddish-brown, conductive, corrosion-resistant metal cork tile: square-cut piece of cork corrugated steel: thin sheet of galvanized steel shaped into parallel grooves and ridges for added strength Bullet: glass scraps that can be re-melted curbing: stones or bricks used to form raised edge curbstone: stone that makes up a section of curb cut glass: ornamental flint glass with patterns cut into its surface by abrasive wheel cut stone: flat stone cut to particular shape damask: steel with wavy damascene markings face brick: brick with specific color or surface treatment, used for building facades ferro-concrete: high-strength, reinforced concrete, usually layered in thin sheets firebrick: highly heat-resistant brick used especially for fireplaces flag: flat slab of stone; flagstone flagstone: flat piece split from hard stone, used for paving freestone: stone, such as limestone or sandstone, that may be cut freely without splitting glass: hard, brittle, usually transparent substance composed of fused and rapidly cooled silicates mixed with potash or soda and lime glass block: square or oblong, hollow glass structure, used as decorative building block, glass brick glass brick: glass block glass tile: flat, hard, shatterproof glass square glass wool fine glass fibers woven into dense mass, used for insulation glazing: panes or sheets of glass to be set in frames such as windows or mirrors gravel: mixture of pebbles and rock fragments graded by size from coarse to fine, used for outdoor surfaces hanging wire: thin, strong wire used to suspend or hoist objects iron: common, strong, malleable metallic element that is basis of alloy steel limestone: white calcium oxide used to make cement and mortar linoleum: hard, smooth floor covering made of solidified linseed oil mixed with gum, cork dust, or wood flour set on a backing of burlap or canvas, often cut into kitchen tiles macadam: rock fragments mixed with tar or asphalt to form roadway marble: hard, crystalline limestone with white, streaked, or mottled surface that takes high polish marl: brick composed of loose, crumbling earth masonry: brick, cinderblock, stone, or tile bonded with mortar or concrete masonry veneer: surface layer with appearance of stonework mirror: glass coated on one side with reflective substance nickel: silver-white, malleable metallic element used for plating and in alloys pane glass: transparent glass sheets cut to size for windows pantile: roofing tile that is curved in its width so as to overlap flanking tiles laid alternately convex and concave side up paving: gravel, stone, concrete, or asphalt, used to surface outdoor area or roadway pipe: hollow metallic cylinder piping: section or system of pipes pise rammed earth plate glass clear ground glass in large sheets, used for windows; sheet glass pre-stressed concrete: concrete reinforced with embedded cables or wires under tension to increase strength quarry tiles: durable fired tiles of unrefined clay, used as flooring rammed earth: mixture of sand, loam, and clay rammed into forms; pise rebar: reinforcing steel bars red brick common brick reinforced concrete: concrete masonry embedded with steel bars or mesh for greater tensile strength reinforcing rod: steel bar used to reinforce concrete retarder: mixture of concrete or plaster with another ingredient that retards its set riprap broken stone chunks used for foundations roofing: any of various ceramics, tiles, asphalts, or stones used to make roofs roof: tile ceramic or asphalt square of roofing material rough-cut stone: rubble; irregular, rough-dressed rock fragments rubble: masonry made of rough, irregular rock fragments; rubblework rubblework: rubble safety glass: shatterproof glass made by placing layer of resin or transparent plastic between two panes of glass scrap: discarded fragment, especially of metal, that can be reused, often in altered form scrap iron: fragments of iron which can be recast screening: fine, close mesh composed of metal wires, used especially to allow ventilation through doors or windows while excluding insects shake: rock fragments scattered about and set in mortar as roofing sheet glass: plate glass sheeting: any material. especially metal or glass, cut into large, thin, flat pieces sheet metal: metal cut into large, thin, flat pieces slate hard, bluish-gray, fine-grained rock used for roof tiles smoked glass: glass colored or darkened by smoke spun glass: fine threads of liquid glass stained glass: glass colored by fusing of metallic oxides, enameling, or burning pigments into its surface, used for decorative windows steel: hard, tough, rust-resistant iron alloy, used extensively for many purposes steel mesh: fine, interwoven strands of steel steel plate hard, smooth sheets of steel stone hard, solid, non-metaffic mineral substance of which rocks consist Syndecrete: Trademark. synthetic concrete terra cotta: hard, reddish-brown clay earthenware, used for ornamental facing tile: thin, usually square or rectangular piece of stone, concrete, or fired clay, used for roofing or flooring tinfoil: paper-thin sheet of tin, or alloy of tin and lead, used for insulation wire: long, very thin metal thread wrought iron: tough, malleable, soft commercial iron with 1 or 2 percent slag content, used for furniture and fixtures Also see: |
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