Glosary

= **DEFINITIONS** =


 * SHELTER: **something beneath, behind, or within wich a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions.



**HARDENS:** verb used with object to make hard o harder.

**STONELIKE**: adjective that refers to the quality of being a hard sustance, former of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.

**WATER AND FIRE RESISTING**: adjective used to refers to the quality of having resistance to the water and fire.

**COMPRESSIVE**: adjective, compressing, tending to compress.

**TENSILE STRENGTH**: the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimun amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.

**POURED**: verb used with object to send ( a liquid fluid, or anything in loose particles), flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something.

**FUSING**: verb used with object to combine or blend by melting together.   **VOLCANIC-ASH**:finely pulverized lava thrown out by a volcano in eruption.

**BRICK RIBBING**: any of severls archlike members of a vault sopporting it at the groins, defining its distinct surfaces, or dividing these surfaces into panels.

**SEWERAGE**: the removal of waste water and refuse by means of sewers.

**WATER PROOFING**: a substance that which something is made waterproof.

**PIPES**: a hollow cyllinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum,etc.  
 * MESH **: an interwoven or intertwined structure.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">**LIMITLESS**: without limit; boundless.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">**HARDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION**: the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">**DECK**: a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for streghthening the structure of a vessel.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">**STRESSES**: to subject to stress or strain.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">**SLABS**: a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">**SPRING:** to be released from a constrained position, as by resilient or elastic force or from the action of a spring.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: verdana; font-size: small; text-align: left;">**SKELETON**: a suporting framework, as of a leaf, building, or ship.


 * FRAMEWORK: **a eskeletal structure designed to support or enclose something.




 * TIMBER**: the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.


 * MASONRY:** work constructed by a mason, specially stonework.


 * SHEAT**: something that sheathes, a couvering or other layer of metal, wood, or other material, as one of metal plates on a ship´s bottom.


 * TRUSS:** any of various structural frames contructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, ot the stiffness of beams.


 * DOWELS:** a piece of wood driven into a hole drilled in a mansory wall to receive nails, as for fastening wood work.




 * CLAMP:** a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.