masonry
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈmeɪsənri/
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mampostería
- We came to a halt at last on Little Hill, next to the squat masonry tavern.
- masonry walls
- masonry structures
- Inka masonry
He says that they came upon a coastline of mingled mud ooze and weedy cyclopean masonry.
- He says that they came upon a coastline of mingled mud ooze and weedy cyclopean masonry.
- A lot of this masonry halls all around the United States.
- You know, in a structure you would like tie things, ties tie things into the, the core masonry or the core structure for stability and stuff like that.
- We read that he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry, masonry which shouldn't have been there, an angle which was acute but behaved as if it was obtuse.
Examples
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Remnants of the masonry and mortar features are visible along the top.
Academic text (1995) -
Stanley wavers precariously on the crumbling masonry, then catches his balance.
Fiction book (1994) -
Do you expect me to believe someone walked through solid masonry into this room?
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You are looking for anything that would indicate recently laid masonry.
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The results would cause serious damage to schools and masonry buildings from Memphis to St. Louis.
Blog text (4) -
It's 25 inches of reinforced granite masonry, is it not?
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Its walls were made of fine ashlar masonry, and among the finds unearthed inside were beautiful items of gold jewelry.
Academic text (2004) -
Hoover Dam was the first single structure to contain more masonry than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Academic text (2001) -
Solid masses of masonry can attain remarkable size, as the Egyptian pyramids make clear, but hollowed shapes cannot.
Academic text (2003) -
The Washington Monument, an obelisk, is the tallest masonry structure in the world.
Synonyms
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2.7
A low fence made by stacking rough stones to mark boundaries or keep animals out
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3.3
Part of a building made of bricks held together with mortar
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4.2
The parts of a building made of stone or the skill of building with stone
Compounds
- Specialized
A style of building using very large rough stones placed together without mortar, often in ancient walls
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Masonry comes from mason, meaning a 'stone worker', so the word can also mean the actual walls or buildings made of stone and brick.