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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beam |
| Synonyms: | axle, bail, balk, bolster, boom, brace, cantilever, column, crossbar, crosspiece, girder, jamb, joist, lath, lintel, pile, piling, pillar, plank, pole, post, prop, reach, scaffolding, scantling, shaft, sill, spar, stanchion, stay, stringer, strip, strut*, stud*, timber, transverse, trestle, two-by-four |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | arm, band, bar, bearing, block, bolster, boom, bracer, bracket, buttress, cantilever, clamp, girder, grip, guy, lever, mainstay, peg, prop, rafter, reinforcement, rib, shore, skid, splice, splint, staff, stanchion, stave, stay, stirrup, strengthener, strut, sustainer, truss, underpinning, vice |
| Main Entry: | girder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main support beam |
| Synonyms: | I-beam, joist, rafter, tiebeam, truss |
| Main Entry: | timber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trees, wood |
| Synonyms: | balk, beam, board, boom, club, forest, frame, girder, grove, hardwood, log, mast, plank, pole, rafter, rib, stake, timberland, weald, woodland, woodlot, woods |
| Notes: | what American call lumber, Britons call timber; timbre refers to the quality of sound timber refers to cut wood and to one's qualification for a position; timbre refers to the quality of sound |
| Main Entry: | roof |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | building covering |
| Synonyms: | canopy, ceiling, covering, crown, cupola, dome, gable, gambrel, house, palate, parapet, rafter, shelter, slate, summit, truss |
| Main Entry: | countless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innumerable |
| Synonyms: | bags of, endless, gobs, heap*, immeasurable, incalculable, infinite, innumerous, jillion, legion, limitless, loads, lots of, many, measureless, mess*, mint, mucho, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, oodles*, passel of, peck, pile, raft, scads, slew, stack, tidy sum, umpteen, uncountable, uncounted, untold, wad, whole slew, zillion |
| Antonyms: | calculable, countable, counted, limited, measurable, numbered, numerable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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