Terracing

v. construct a porch, build a patio or deck; create many narrow flat levels in a hillside (for agriculture or to prevent erosion)

A terrace may refer to:Terrace (agriculture), a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed to slow or prevent the rapid run-on of irrigation water (see also Lynchet).Terrace deposit or Stream terrace, sediment from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamwayTerrace (gardening), an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospectTerraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rowsTerrace (building) outdoor section of a house in an apartment buildingTerrace (stadium) standing spectator areas, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes. See List of terraces at baseball venues for some baseball examples.St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, prestigious Brisbane boys college located on Gregory Terrace.Terrace melodic motion in music.Tone terracing in phonetics.Terrace is often included as part of street names. The most common usage is for streets that are cul-de-sacs, however this is not a universal rule.
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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

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
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Dikes built along the contour of sloping farm land that hold runoff and sediment to reduce erosion.