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• girder — [n] main support beam I beam, joist, rafter, tiebeam, truss; concepts 471,479 …   New thesaurus

• Joist — A roof made with a concrete slab with concrete joists A joist, in architecture and engineering, is one of the horizontal supporting members that run from wall to wall, wall to beam, or beam to beam to support a ceiling, roof, or floor. It may be… …   Wikipedia

• Girder — For the DC Comics character with this name, see Girder (comics). The ceiling of Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, was constructed of large trusses built of riveted girders. A girder is a support beam used in construction. Girders often… …   Wikipedia

• girder — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. truss, rafter, mainstay; see beam 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. beam, joist, timber, support …   English dictionary for students

• joist — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. girder, scantling, strip; see beam 1 , post 1 , support 2 …   English dictionary for students

• Camber — may refer to a variety of curvatures and angles: * Camber angle in automobile technology * In the steel industry, the concavity of rolls. Hot rolling uses positive camber (concave rolls), while cold rolling uses negative camber (convex). * Camber …   Wikipedia

• timber — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. wood, lumber, log, beam; forest, woodland, stand of timber, timberland. See materials. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Standing trees] Syn. wood, lumber, timberland, wood lot, grove, standing timber, virgin… …   English dictionary for students

• web — [web] n. [ME < OE webb, akin to ON vefr, OHG weppi < IE * webh , to WEAVE] 1. any woven fabric; esp., a length of cloth being woven on a loom or just taken off 2. a) the woven or spun network of a spider; cobweb b) a similar network spun by …   English World dictionary

• building — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Architectural structure Nouns 1. edifice, structure, construction. See form, production, architecture. 2. house, home, abode. 3. (types of buildings) A frame, prefab, Quonset hut, ranch house, saltbox,… …   English dictionary for students

• building construction — Techniques and industry involved in the assembly and erection of structures. Early humans built primarily for shelter, using simple methods. Building materials came from the land, and fabrication was dictated by the limits of the materials and… …   Universalium

• beam — beamless, adj. beamlike, adj. /beem/, n. 1. any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped esp. for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines. 2. Building Trades. a horizontal bearing… …   Universalium