building

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شبکه مترجمین ایران

1 general:: building verbs put up a building ( also erect a building formal ) • They keep pulling down the old buildings and putting up new ones. pull down/knock down/tear down a building • All the medieval buildings were torn down. demolish/destroy a building (= pull it down ) • Permission is needed to demolish listed buildings. ADJECTIVES/NOUN + building a tall building • The park was surrounded by tall buildings. a high-rise building (= very tall with many floors ) • a New York high-rise building a low building • That low building is a stable block. an office/school/hospital etc building • Our office building is just ten minutes’ walk from where I live. a public building • The town has a number of interesting public buildings, including the old town hall. a beautiful building ( also a fine/handsome building British English ) • The old station was a fine building, but has sadly been demolished. an impressive/imposing building • the impressive buildings around the town’s central square a brick/stone/wooden building • The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old. a two-storey/three-storey etc building (= with two, three etc floors ) • Our villa was a delightful two-storey building. a single-storey/one-storey building (= with only one floor ) a historic building (= an old building of historical interest ) • Most of the historic buildings are from the 18th century. a listed building British English (= a historic building that is protected by a government order ) • The school is actually a listed building. a derelict building (= empty and in very bad condition ) • Near the canal there are a number of derelict buildings. a dilapidated building (= in bad condition ) • He rented an apartment at the top of a dilapidated building in Paris. a ramshackle building ( also a tumbledown building British English ) (= old and almost falling down ) • The farm was surrounded by tumbledown buildings.

transnet.ir

2 general:: building a structure such as a house, church, or factory, that has a roof and walls: • The college needs money to pay for new buildings. property formal a building or piece of land, or both together - used especially when talking about buying and selling buildings or land: • The next property they looked at was too small. • The company received permission to build six residential properties on the land. premises formal the buildings and land that a shop, restaurant, company etc uses: • You are not allowed to drink alcohol on the premises. • The bread is baked on the premises. complex a group of buildings, or a large building with many parts, used for a particular purpose: • The town has one of the best leisure complexes in the country. • a luxury apartment complex development a group of new buildings that have all been planned and built together on the same piece of land: • a new housing development • a huge industrial development block especially British English a large tall building that contains apartments or offices, or is part of a school, university, or hospital: • an office block • a block of flats • a tower block (= a very tall building - often used disapprovingly ) • My next lecture is in the science block. facility especially American English a place or building used for a particular activity or industry: • a research facility on campus edifice formal a large building, especially one that is tall and impressive - a very formal use: • Their head office was an imposing edifice. structure formal something that has been made to stand upright - used especially when talking about buildings: • The stone arch is one of the town’s oldest existing structures. • an immense barn-like structure • Mogul calls this building, designed by Donald and John Parkinson in 1928, ‘the most important structure in Los Angeles of the 20th century.’

Longman-Thesaurus

3 general::   noun house, church, school, etc. ADJ. big, high-rise, large, tall | low, single-storey, small | attractive, beautiful, fine, imposing, impressive, magnificent | crumbling, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumbledown | ancient, historic, old | seventeenth-century, etc. | listed They were refused planning permission for a modern extension because it was a Grade II listed building. | brick, concrete, stone, timber, wooden | industrial, public, residential | airport, apartment, church, factory, farm, headquarters, hospital, office, prison, school VERB + BUILDING build, erect, put up Several new buildings are now being put up. | demolish, destroy, flatten, gut, knock down, pull down, raze, tear down The building was gutted by fire. | damage | renovate, restore They're renovating the old farm buildings. BUILDING + VERB collapse process/business of building sth ADJ. nest, road | empire, team BUILDING + NOUN business, company, contractor, firm, industry, sector, trade | programme, project, scheme | activity, development, work We're having some building work done. | controls, regulations | land, site | materials | boom | costs | worker

Oxford Collocations Dictionary

4 general:: noun structure: The building was used as a store.

Simple Definitions