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单词 timber-frame
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Definition of timber-frame in English:

timber-frame

adjective
  • Denoting a house or other structure having a wooden frame.

    a timber-framed manor house
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You will probably be deciding between a brick and block or timber-frame construction.
    • ELK will employ 250 people at its factory that will produce timber-frame homes.
    • This will mean there will be more timber-frame houses.
    • The timber-frame cabin that they were building had been treated with one of the most popular wood preservatives in the United States, and had infected the couple.
    • More than 100 jobs will be created in Macroom, Co Cork, with the construction of a manufacturing facility by timber-frame housing group Cygnum.
    • It is the biggest timber-frame building company in Europe.
    • So for nine months the couple lived on site in their caravan while the first of the timber-frame houses was built.
    • The expanse of glass is a fresh, cool counterpoint to the warm timber-frame interior and tightly connects indoors and outdoors.
    • This is due in part to people's desire to adapt houses to the intemperate climate and to Scotland's historic links with Scandinavia - home of the timber-frame house favoured by self-builders.
    • Inside the shop is the two-storey timber-frame house that is completely transformed and is where customers will shop for all they could possibly want for Halloween.
    • Their timber-frame house is raised off the ground on stilts set into a concrete base.
    • MacDonald attributes the increasing popularity of timber-frame housing in Ireland to the fact that 60 per cent of the house can be pre-fabricated.
    • If you see a timber-frame home without the expensive cladding exterior, it's sort of a blue plastic-wrapped timber frame that holds the house inside.
    • Working in the timber industry during the past eight years had brought me closer to the concept of timber-frame housing.
    • The couple decided on a timber-frame construction with natural slate roof because of Ryan's background in carpentry and because they felt that it was more sustainable.
    • It's not unusual to see timber-frame houses with vast open areas stretching from one exterior wall to another and reaching upward two or three stories to a vaulted roof.
    • There are timber-frame houses that are still crafted in the timeless way by woodworking traditionalists using hand tools and methods that have changed little over the centuries.
    • Most other timber-frame systems here use traditional masonry on top of the structural frame of the building.
    • Century Homes, one of Ireland's leading suppliers of timber-frame houses, now provides an American ranch house option for buyers.
    • His own home, a timber-frame family house that looks rooted in its site, is a glowing testimonial to his methods.
noun
mass noun
  • Pre-prepared sections of wood used for building a house.

    the use of timber-frame in house-building quadrupled in the 1970s
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This leaves us with timber-frame, Bell's preferred method.
    • The lower floor, which contains all the main living areas, is load-bearing block clad with Tyrone brick, while upstairs is timber-frame.

Derivatives

  • timber-framed

  • adjectiveˈtɪmbəfreɪmd
    • After carrying out research and development work last year, the business is starting to take off with the timber-framed lodges now based at several sites locally, and hopes are high for further orders.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One of the timber-framed buildings was huge, at least 50 metres long and 12 metres wide.
      • Some of the materials used in the timber-framed building will be recycled, including 300 millimetres of newspaper insulation in the walls.
      • The majority of these houses are timber-framed.
      • The timber-framed two-storey building has a reclaimed slate roof, double-glazed windows and heavily insulated floors and ceiling.
  • timber-framer

  • noun
  • timber-framing

  • noun
    • The ground floor of this court was built of stone, while the upper levels, corresponding to the principal apartments on the first floor, were of timber-framing designed to hold the stucco reliefs.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Little Hall (open, as the headquarters of the Suffolk Preservation Society), which has been stripped to reveal a Tudor shop front, hints at the likely quality of the hidden timber-framing.
 
 
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