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A flat roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs have up to approximately 10°. [1] Flat roofs are an ancient form mostly used in arid climates and allow the roof space to be used as a living space or a living roof. Flat roofs, or "low ...
Butterfly roof (V-roof, [8] London roof [9]): A V-shaped roof resembling an open book. A kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an obtuse angle. Karahafu: A type of gable found in some traditional Japanese buildings. Hidden roof: A type of Japanese roof construction.
Arzaworld.com: Historical Architecture and Design in Israel Archived 2018-04-20 at the Wayback Machine; A little modesty goes a long way Archived 2008-06-09 at the Wayback Machine by David Kroyanker; Fifty Years of Israeli Architecture as Reflected in Jerusalem's Buildings, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 26 May 1999; Israel Architect Design
Some Yiddish proper names have common non-trivial diminutive forms, somewhat similar to English names such as Bob or Wendy: Akive/Kive, Yishaye/Shaye, Rivke/Rivele. Yiddish also has diminutive forms of adjectives (all the following examples are given in masculine single form):
For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.
This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( ת ) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.
For words and place names which are common in Hebrew, but not in English, a similar guideline to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) should be used, only for Hebrew: if there is a common Hebrew way of writing the word, it should be transliterated into English from the accepted Hebrew writing, ignoring the Arabic version. An Arabic script ...
Nevertheless, a flat roof on a building is counted as a floor in other languages, for instance dakvloer in Dutch, literally "roof-floor", simply counted one level up from the floor number that it covers. A two-storey house or home extension is sometimes referred to as double-storey in the UK, [4] while one storey is referred to as single-storey ...