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terrace
n.
porch, paved outdoor area; flat roof; flat section of earth with sloping sides
v.
construct a porch, build a patio or deck; create many narrow flat levels in a hillside (for agriculture or to prevent erosion)
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Terrace
A terrace may refer to:
- Terrace (agriculture), a leveled surface
- Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
- Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain
- Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
- Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
- Terrace (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in Europe and South America, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes
- Fluvial (stream or river) terrace, natural, flat surface or surfaces that border(s) and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river.
- Tone terracing in phonetics
- Terrace melodic motion in music
- Terrace in base, a heraldic ordinary
- Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
- Terrace, Utah, a ghost town in the Great Salt Lake Desert, United States
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terrace
Noun
1. usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
(synonym) patio
(hypernym) area
(hyponym) suntrap, solar trap
(part-holonym) garden
(derivation) terrasse
2. a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
(synonym) bench
(hypernym) tableland, plateau
3. a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face); "Grosvenor Terrace"
(hypernym) row
(member-meronym) terraced house
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Verb
1. provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house"
(synonym) terrasse
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
(derivation) patio
(classification) architecture
2. make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"
(hypernym) shape, form
(derivation) bench
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terrace
n.
terasa; terasovité pole; ulice řadových domů; tribuna k stání
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terrace
Rzecz.
domy jednorodzinne w zabudowie szeregowej; taras; trybuny
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