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Engaged tower: Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation Engaged column: Albright-Knox Art GalleryEngaged roof: 368 Linwood Ave.
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engaged - having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"; "deeply engaged in conversation" occupied ...
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engaged: built into a wall. engaged column: a column attached to or sunk into a wall or pier. engaged order: columns attached to or sunk into a wall or pier.
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engaged column - a column partially built into a wall, not freestanding. It may be purely decorative or it may serve as a buttress-like thickening of the wall.
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Engaged Column: Like the reed bundles and wooden supports that came before them that were set into mud- brick walls to strengthen them.
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Engaged ColumnIn architecture, a column that is attached to a wall and which is therefore not completely cylindrical. It may not be load bearing, and may exist only to visually articulate the wall.
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Half-column. An engaged (attached ) column projecting slightly from the wall a little more than one-half its diameter.
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Applied or engaged column: A column which is attached to a wall so that only half of the form projects from the wall.
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Romans DORMER WINDOW: a window placed vertically in a sloping roof and with a roof of its own DRUM: a vertical wall supporting a dome; it may be circular, square, or polygonal EAVES: the underpart of an overhanging cornice or sloping roof ENGAGED ...
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Florentine architect Leon Battista Alberti, in his design for the Palazzo Rucellai (1446-1451), incorporated three superimposed classical orders into the façade, much as in the Roman Colosseum, except that he used pilasters instead of engaged ...
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"... the statues of heroic size, completely dis engaged from the walls, which filled the tympana, or triangular spaces of the pediments at both ends of the temple." - William Spalding, Italy and the Italian Islands (1841), p. 161 Related Words ...
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A concrete or concrete encased steel column partly engaged within the thickness of a wall. Wall-hung basin A washbasin fixed to wall, usually on brackets. A splash back normally protects the wall surface behind the basin.
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a member appearing to be an engaged pier but providing no support - engagedattached to wall, as in a column ...
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Attached Column - The term attached column refers to a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it. ©2007 The Probert Encyclopaedia. Data used under license.
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Pilaster - A part of a wall that projects not more than one-half of its own width beyond the outside or inside face of a wall, acting as an engaged pier.
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See also: Architecture, House, Capital, Decorated, Tower
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