Architecture
['ɑːkɪtektʃə] or ['ɑrkə'tɛktʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect.
(noun.) an architectural product or work.
(noun.) 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'.
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Definition
(n.) The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
(n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Science or art of building.[2]. Workmanship, framework, frame, structure, fabric.
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Examples
- An earthquake-proof steel palace for the Crown Prince of Japan is one of the modern applications of steel in architecture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The latest achievement in marine architecture, however, is the Deutschland, built for the Hamburg-American Company. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Since the days of Salamis there had been a considerable development of naval architecture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Architecture for Vitruvius is a science arising out of many oth er sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They built sturdy fortresses of the Myc?nean type of architecture; they had a metal industry; they used imported Greek pottery of a very fine type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Drummle, an old-looking young man of a heavy order of architecture, was whistling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In his work on architecture, Vitruvius shows himself a diligent a nd devoted student of the sciences in order that he may turn them to account in his own department of technology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Dejah Thoris and I then fell to examining the architecture and decorations of the beautiful chambers of the building we were occupying. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Weaving, carpentry, architecture, manufacture of mills, clocks, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There were some really curious pieces of mediaeval domestic architecture within. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mechanics and Architecture. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I have been studying architecture. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- With the war going on you cannot study architecture. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We took off our shoes and went into the marble mausoleum of the Sultan Mahmoud, the neatest piece of architecture, inside, that I have seen lately. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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