Noun | 1. | ![]() building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
2. | architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" 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 attic - (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof pillar, column - (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure corbel arch - (architecture) an arch constructed of masonry courses that are corbelled until they meet corbie gable - (architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps quoin, corner - (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone drip mold, drip mould, drip - (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) entablature - (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof modillion - (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice 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 spandrel, spandril - an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them terminal figure, terminus, term - (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome vaulting - (architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting" 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 columniation - (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure fenestration - the arrangement of windows in a building art form - (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study - a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" architectonics, tectonics - the science of architecture landscape architecture - the branch of architecture dealing with the arrangement of land and buildings for human use and enjoyment urban planning - the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities interior design - the branch of architecture dealing with the selection and organization of furnishings for an architectural interior beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art hip - (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof build - be engaged in building; "These architects build in interesting and new styles" corbel - furnish with a corbel cornice - furnish with a cornice attached - used of buildings joined by common sidewalls; "a block of attached houses" detached - used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage" | |
3. | ![]() profession - an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) cantilever - construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed; "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings" step - furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the terrace" rail - provide with rails; "The yard was railed" air-cool, air-condition - equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature; "Our house is not air-conditioned" seat - provide with seats; "seat a concert hall" reseat - provide with new seats; "reseat Carnegie Hall" ramp - furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium" rafter - provide (a ceiling) with rafters gate - supply with a gate; "The house was gated" machicolate - supply with projecting galleries; "machicolate the castle walls" sanitate - provide with sanitary facilities or appliances | |
4. | architecture - (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software" structure - the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the structure of the benzene molecule" complex instruction set computer, complex instruction set computing, CISC - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip reduced instruction set computer, reduced instruction set computing, RISC - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |