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  2. Wikipedia : WikiProject Stagecraft/Terminology/List of ...

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    Monologue: an extended set of lines spoken by one person either directly addressing the audience (as in a soliloquy) or another character (a speech). Motivation: a character's individual desires or goals which propel them into action ;the driving force of an inciting event that starts a story's progression.

  3. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    1. In a building facade, the space between the top of the window in one story and the sill of the window in the story above. 2. The space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure. Spere The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house. Spire

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    building attached to or in the grounds of a residence for storing a car (parking garage) building serving as a public parking facility (UK: multistorey car park or just multistorey) garbage (n.) piece of nonsensical prose, sequence of meaningless words household waste (UK "rubbish") garden (n.) area around a residential structure (US: yard)

  5. Glossary of structural engineering - Wikipedia

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    Camber beam – In building, a camber beam is a piece of timber cut archwise, and steel bent or rolled, with an obtuse angle in the middle, commonly used in platforms, as church leads, and other occasions where long and strong beams are required. The camber curve is ideally a parabola but practically a circle segment as even with modern ...

  6. Digon - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a bigon, [1] digon, or a 2-gon, is a polygon with two sides and two vertices.Its construction is degenerate in a Euclidean plane because either the two sides would coincide or one or both would have to be curved; however, it can be easily visualised in elliptic space.

  7. Wing (building) - Wikipedia

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    A wing is part of a building – or any feature of a building – that is subordinate to the main, central structure. [1] The individual wings may directly adjoin the main building or may be built separately and joined to it by a connecting structure such as a colonnade or pergola. New buildings may incorporate wings from the outset or these ...

  8. Overhang (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Overhangs on two sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns protect doors, windows, and other lower-level structures. Overhangs on all four sides of barns and larger, older farmhouses are common in Swiss architecture. An overhanging eave is the edge of a roof, protruding outwards from the side of the building, generally to provide weather protection.

  9. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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    A passage of two vessels moving in the opposite direction on their port sides, so called because the red navigation light on one of the vessels faces the red light on the other vessel. reduced cat. Also boy pussy. [39] A light version of the cat o'nine tails for use on young sailors. reef 1.