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Building Material

Definition: Building Material

Building Material

Noun

1. Material used for constructing buildings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Building Material

English words defined with "building material": brick, bricks and mortarcement, concrete, CoquinadevelopFacework, fencing, fencing material, fieldstone, flooringJoggle jointlath and plaster, lumbermarbleroofing materialshake, shingle, siding, stonetimberUnderpinningwattle and daub. (references)
Specialty definitions using "building material": allowable stress, attrition millBatt/Blanket, bedding plane, bill of quantities, building-service supervisor, Bulk SampleCAPTAIN, FIRE-PREVENTION BUREAU, CASE PREPARER-AND-LINER, Caulking, COMBINER OPERATOR, combiner-sheet operator, cut and fillESTIMATOR AND DRAFTER, EXHIBIT DESIGNERfill-and-cut, Flame Spread Rating, FURNACE INSTALLER-AND-REPAIRER, HOT AIR, furnace workergeneral-maintenance helperheating worker, hot-melt-machine operatorlaminating-machine operatormaintenance mechanic helper, MAINTENANCE-REPAIRER HELPER, INDUSTRIAL, malmstone, manager, building, MATERIAL LISTER, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporationoolitic limestonepaster operator, plasterer, stucco, pressure chamberREAL-ESTATE CLERK, RESTORER, CERAMICSHOP SUPERVISOR, solid-borne noise, solid-fiber-paster operator, structure-borne noise, STUCCO MASON, stucco worker, SUPERINTENDENT, BUILDING, SUPERVISOR, AIR-CONDITIONING INSTALLER, SUPERVISOR, TAPINGVapor Retarder. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Building Material

DomainTitle

References

  • Companion Building Material (Holdings) Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Building Material Holdings Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Building Material

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Tabby ruins at Chocolate on the northwest side of the island. Tabby refers to the building material which is a durable cement-like mixture of equal parts of water, sand, shell, and lime. These ruins are part of an antebellum plantation that was deserted following the Civil War. Credit: America's Coastlines.

General building material. Tile pipes and lumber. Berwyn, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Cement plant which furnishes building material for a new steel mill under construction. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Building Material

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Under such circumstances, the PVC building material consumption has continuously increased rapidly. (references)

RECI Industri AB is a part of the Scancem group, which defines their core activity as mineral based building material. (references)

There are hundreds of building material centers in China, and a substantial number of these are small specialty shops in Guangdong. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

The Building Material market for the Housing Industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Building Material

CountryNameCountryName
Hong Kong

Companion Building Material (Holdings) Limited

USA

Building Material Holdings Corp.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Building Material

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

building material

1,509

building material silverado

9

building material software

116

commercial building material

8

used building material

57

building material weights

7

surplus building material

39

building material thompsons

7

home building material

38

building material mccoys

5

building material directory

28

building material prefab

5

building material distribution software

26

building material sustainable

4

alternative building material

26

alternate building material

4

building material recycled

24

furrow building material

3

salvage building material

23

building material reclaimed

3

bison building material

13

building material wimsatt

2

composite building material

13

building material recycling

2

building material sepulveda

12

building material residential

2

building material stone

11

building material residential

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Building Material

Language Translations for "building material"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

építőanyag. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

建材 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

け"ざい (actual, actualized, hard wood, in good health, well). (various references)

   

Manx

  

stoo troggee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uildingbay aterialmay

   

Russian 

  

строительный материал. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Building Material

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-g-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-r-t-u"

-5 letters: adumbrating, antiliberal, drumbeating, illuminated, mandibulate, matrilineal, milliradian, umbrellaing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Building Material


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 69 6C 64 69 6E 67      4D 61 74 65 72 69 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01101001 01101100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#105 &#108 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#77 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0069 006C 0064 0069 006E 0067      004D 0061 0074 0065 0072 0069 0061 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368775787075807324767867184756778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Names: Company Usage
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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