We've found 16 phrases for Building (0.162 seconds):

a house is not a home »    A home is not merely a building but requires inhabitants and a friendly atmosphere.

a picture paints a thousand words »    A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!

break new ground »    To begin excavating and levelling earth for a new building, or, originally, for cultivation.

buzz up »    To allow entrance into a building from a higher floor by triggering an electronic lock.

close off »    To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.

close up »    To shut a building or a business for a period of time.

concrete jungle »    An urban or other populated area containing a high density of buildings constructed of concrete or similar materials, especially one which lacks greenery and which seems unattractive, harsh, or unsafe.

debris field »    Any area, non-dependent of locale, space, or contour, that contains the debris of wreckage, impact, sinking, or other material that once constituted a complete object. Debris fields can be found at the site of air crashes, water vessel sinking, explosions of buildings, collapses, and other events that render a whole entity into components, pieces, or other non-whole items.

developments »    A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.

fire drill »    An organised practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.

go out »    To leave, especially a building.

pop out »    To leave a room or building with the expectation of returning soon.

tower block »    high-rise building

urban fabric »    The physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and streetscapes; while excluding without prejudice to this useful term, environmental, functional, economic and sociocultural aspects.

whistle walk »    The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food.

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