Excavate - To dig out a volume of earth for a basement, footings or foundation.
Expansion Tank - A tank located near the heating plant of a hot water system used to help balance the pressure.
Exterior Wall - An outside wall.
Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae
Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period.
excavate, unearth - recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
trot out - bring out and show for inspection and admiration; "His novel trots out a rich heiress"; "always able to trot out some new excuse" ...
Areaway - The excavated area between the Area wall and the basement window.
Zig Zag: A trench excavated by besiegers and running towards the besieged position from the parallel trench in a zig zag pattern, to reduce the amount of exposure to defensive fire from the besieged. See approaches.
At Jise there is a huge Roman reservoir and nearby are the remains of the recently excavated Umayyad palace of Qastal which may have functioned as a royal caravanserai to receive important officials on the Hajj.
But he passed over the nearby centre of the older Teotihuacán culture (100 bc-ad 700), which has now been extensively restored and excavated.
Bank Cube - Undisturbed volume of ground, before it is excavated
Bank of lifts - Several lifts at a common location, usually with shared controls ...
A smaller reconstruction of the Ishtar Gateway, made from excavated bricks, is housed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
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Ditch / Moat
- an excavation in front of a rampart which presents an obstacle to the attackers and provides excavated material which can be used in construction of ramparts. Commonly referred to as a "moat."
See fortification.
The metallic iridescence, its chief characteristic, was inspired, he said, by the iridescence resulting from decay on on excavated Roman glass. Tiffany's glass had a silky, delicate patina over luminous colors.
Their theatres were semicircular on one side and square on the other, the semicircular part being usually excavated in the side of some convenient hill.
Raphael, about 1520, reproduced in the Vatican some of the stucco-duro ornament which he had studied in the Golden House of Nero, excavated under his directions.
 See also: Architecture, House, Capital, Roman, Palace
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