Cable Moulding A moulding in the form of a rope made from twisted strands
Calefactory Warming house in a monastery
Camail Chain mail armour covering the head and falling over the shoulders
Canons The chapter members.
Cable mouldingA moulding like twisted strands of a rope; also called rope moulding.CadaverIn a monument, an effigy depicted a naked corpse; also called a gisant.
Cable moulding - A Romanesque moulding imitating a twisted cord.
Caldarium - The hot-room in a Roman bath.
Camber - Of a horizontal timber, usually a tie-beam or a collar-beam, in which the centre is higher than the ends.
Cable Moulding.
(Sometimes Rope Moulding) Originally a Norman moulding imitating the twisted strands of a rope.
Canopy.
cable molding - molding that looks like rope.
drip molding - (eared) a projecting molding over doors, window, and archways to direct rain away from the opening.
BX Cable - Armored electrical cable wrapped in galvanized steel outer covering.
Cable moulding - a Norman moulding carved like a length of rope.
Camera - private room used for both living and sleeping, set apart from the more public areas of a house. Campshedding - facing of piles of boarding along a bank.
Phone, cable, and Internet connections
Refrigerator, stove, and laundry appliances
Furniture (Chances are you'll want many new items for your new home)
Curtains and window shades
Carpets
Flowers, shrubs, and trees ...
In combined cable-stayed bridges, the stay cables are located above the extrados and below the intrados of the deck (Fig.
CABLE MOULDING: a convex moulding characteristic of the Norman style, resembling a rope.
Braided Cable - Flexible flat cable made from several strands of bare copper wire plaited together, used for the earth bonding of moving parts, e.g. switchboard doors ...
Rope molding
Also called cable molding, torsade (pron. tor SADE)
1. A twisted or spiral molding
2. Any ornamentalornamental twist ...
Regulations applicable to public carriers transporting passengers often require aisles to be completely clear in vehicles, such as airlines, buses and trains.
Conduit - usually a metal or plastic tube used to protect electrical cables.
Consumer Unit (distribution board) - fuses or circuit breakers providing short circuit protection to an electrical system.
A building with a long roof should also be fitted with a horizontal conductor along the ridge, and to this aigrettes (fig. 3) should be attached; a simpler method is to support the cable by holdfasts armed with a spike (fig. 4).
Best known are - Bird's beak; Bead and reel; Cable, (like a rope); Cavetto, (a moulding with a concave profile describing a quater of a circle); Chevron; Cyma recta, (convex to concave); Cyma reversa, or ogee, (concave to convex); ...
Ducting - A system of shafts or tubes designed to carry and protect cables or pipes.
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Dwarf wall - A low wall, for example one constructed to support joists under the ground floor.
A development of ordinary reinforced concrete. The reinforcing steel is replaced by wire cables in ducts.
prick post
Old architectural name given sometimes to the queen posts of a roof, and sometimes to the filling in quarters in framing.
Fused Spur: Power socket that does not have a plug going into it, instead the cable from an appliance like a fridge, radiator, burglar alarm etc and has a fuse socket built into it.
This section explains some of the many terms used to describe building styles, especially those applicable to the range of homes we normally call Queenslanders.
Chase To cut into plaster, brickwork etc. to receive cables and pipes.
a bridge in which the roadway is suspended from two or more steel cables, which usually pass over towers and are then anchored at their ends.
Symmetria
Greek for symmetry.
Public Utilities - Those utilities including water supply, sewage, electricity, disposal, gas, telephone, cable, etc. that are available to the public.
The Villard Houses display a quality of workmanship no longer duplicable and contain works of several significant 19th century artists in America. They are incomparable and irreplaceable examples of design and craftsmanship.
It is built out of dressed undersea or reef coral and set in a rectangular panel surrounded with an architrave carved in a cable pattern.
For it was smallmindedness to consider the holy image, which is consulted not as an idol that ought to receive sacrifices, but on account of the memory of the revered martyr in honor of the high God, despicable or contemptible as I have called the ...
 See also: Architecture, House, Arches, Ground, Member
  
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