building a whole (noun)

  • 1building — noun 1 house, church, school, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ big, high rise, huge, large, massive, tall, towering ▪ low, low rise …

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  • 2whole shebang — noun a) Everything; the entire thing. The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang. b) A building or house and everything in it …

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  • 3building complex — noun a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures • Syn: ↑complex • Hypernyms: ↑structure, ↑construction • Hyponyms: ↑college, ↑plant, ↑works, ↑ …

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  • 4whole — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 all of sth VERB + WHOLE ▪ comprise, cover, embrace, encompass, involve, span ▪ The project involved the whole of the university. ▪ …

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  • 5building block — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun One of the individual entities contributing to a whole: component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient, integrant, part. See PART …

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  • 6Proper noun — Proper name and common noun redirect here. For the philosophy of language concept, see Proper name (philosophy). For the counterpart to scientific names for species, see Common name. A proper noun or proper name is a noun representing a unique… …

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  • 7homer — homer1 /hoh meuhr/, n. 1. Baseball. See home run. 2. See homing pigeon. v.i. 3. Baseball. to hit a home run: The catcher homered in the ninth with one on to take the game. [1865 70; HOME + ER1] homer2 …

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  • 8Homer — /hoh meuhr/, n. 1. 9th century B.C. Greek epic poet: reputed author of the Iliad and Odyssey. 2. Winslow, 1836 1910, U.S. painter and illustrator. 3. a male given name. * * * flourished 9th or 8th century BC, Ionia? Greek poet, one of the… …

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  • 9works — noun 1. buildings for carrying on industrial labor (Freq. 5) they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles • Syn: ↑plant, ↑industrial plant • Members of this Topic: ↑gas system • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 10detail drawing — noun : a separate large scale drawing of a small part of a machine or structure; especially : working drawing * * * Engin. a drawing, at relatively large scale, of a part of a building, machine, etc., with dimensions or other information for use… …

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