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  2. Shoe - Wikipedia

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    A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot. Though the human foot can adapt to varied terrains and climate conditions, it is vulnerable, and shoes provide protection. Form was originally tied to function, but over time, shoes also became fashion items.

  3. Scaffolding - Wikipedia

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    Scaffolding for rehabilitation in Madrid, Spain [1] Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, [2] is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, bridges and all other human-made structures. Scaffolds are widely used on site to get access to heights and ...

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

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    the act or process of building or constructing; a structure; the construction industry from construe: the assigning of meaning to ambiguous terms road construction and maintenance work; roadwork ("a construction area/zone") (UK: roadworks) cooker an appliance for cooking food (US: cookstove, stove, range)

  5. Formwork - Wikipedia

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    Fabric formwork is a small niche in concrete technology. It uses soft, flexible materials as formwork against the fresh concrete, normally with some sort of strong tension textile or plastic material. The International Society of Fabric Forming conducts research on fabric formwork.

  6. Descon - Wikipedia

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    Descon Engineering (Descon) (Urdu: ڈیسکون انجینئرنگ) is a Pakistani conglomerate headquartered in Lahore. This company was first established in 1977, now it has been grown into a diversified group. Today, the company operates as a group in a range of sectors, including engineering, power, and chemicals. The company was founded on ...

  7. Construction - Wikipedia

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    Construction. Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations. [1] It comes from the Latin word constructio (from com- "together" and struere "to pile up") and Old French construction. [2] To 'construct' is a verb: the act of building, and the noun is construction: how something is built ...

  8. Precast concrete - Wikipedia

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    Construction industry is a huge energy consuming industry, and precast concrete products are and will continue to be more energy efficient than its counterparts. The wide range of designs, colours, and structural options that these products provide is also making it a favourable choice for its consumers.

  9. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [ 12 ] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [ 12 ] The input text had to be translated into English first ...