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    ARCHITECTURE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effectplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):

    profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))

    Domain member category:

    cantilever (construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed)

    terrace; terrasse (provide (a house) with a terrace)

    step (furnish with steps)

    rail (provide with rails)

    air-condition; air-cool (equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature)

    seat (provide with seats)

    reseat (provide with new seats)

    ramp (furnish with a ramp)

    crenel; crenelate; crenellate (supply with battlements)

    rafter (provide (a ceiling) with rafters)

    gate (supply with a gate)

    machicolate (supply with projecting galleries)

    sanitate (provide with sanitary facilities or appliances)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    An architectural product or workplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):

    building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

    Domain category:

    architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system softwareplay

    Example:

    the architecture of a computer's system software

    Synonyms:

    architecture; computer architecture

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):

    structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)

    Domain category:

    computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "architecture"):

    CISC; complex instruction set computer; complex instruction set computing ((computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip)

    reduced instruction set computer; reduced instruction set computing; RISC ((computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform)

    Sense 4

    Meaning:

    The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildingsplay

    Example:

    architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):

    bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)

    beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)

    Meronyms (parts of "architecture"):

    architectonics; tectonics (the science of architecture)

    Domain member category:

    vaulting ((architecture) a vaulted structure)

    order ((architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans)

    columniation ((architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure)

    fenestration (the arrangement of windows in a building)

    art form ((architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture))

    hip ((architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof)

    build (be engaged in building)

    corbel (furnish with a corbel)

    cornice (furnish with a cornice)

    astylar (lacking columns or pillars)

    attached (used of buildings joined by common sidewalls)

    detached (used of buildings; standing apart from others)

    engaged (built against or attached to a wall)

    trabeate; trabeated (not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches))

    arced; arched; arching; arciform; arcuate; bowed (forming or resembling an arch)

    foliate; foliated (ornamented with foliage or foils)

    arch ((architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it)

    architectural ornament ((architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance)

    architecture (an architectural product or work)

    attic ((architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof)

    column; pillar ((architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure)

    conge; congee ((architecture) a concave molding)

    corbel; truss ((architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent))

    corbel arch ((architecture) an arch constructed of masonry courses that are corbelled until they meet)

    corbel step; corbie-step; corbiestep; crow step ((architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall)

    corbie gable ((architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps)

    corner; quoin ((architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone)

    drip; drip mold; drip mould ((architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway))

    entablature ((architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof)

    foliage; foliation ((architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament)

    modillion ((architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice)

    pier ((architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows))

    pinnacle ((architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower)

    scape; shaft ((architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column)

    spandrel; spandril (an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them)

    term; terminal figure; terminus ((architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "architecture"):

    urban planning (the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    A rare, invasive colorectal adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of a malignant infiltrate with serrated glandular architecture.

    (Colorectal Serrated Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

    The system provides a reproducible description of the glandular architecture of prostate tissue to which a pathologist assigns a score depending primarily on the microscopic patterns of cancerous glands and cell morphology.

    (Gleason Score for Prostate Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

    Grb7 is the prototype of a family of adaptor molecules that also include Grb10 and Grb14 that share a conserved molecular architecture including Src homology 2 (SH2) and pleckstrin homology (PH) domains.

    (Growth Factor Receptor-Bound Protein 7, NCI Thesaurus)

    It is characterized by the presence of tissue destruction and effacement of the architecture of the involved tissues.

    (Neoplastic Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

    These epithelial lesions have a papillary, micropapillary or basally pseudostratified architecture, but are otherwise identical to PanIN-1A.

    (Mouse Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia-1B, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

    Although the target of HMG-14/-17 is the nucleosome, the main function of these proteins is to change the architecture of the higher-order chromatin structure.

    (Nucleosome Binding Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

    The maintenance or growth of tissues, organ primordia, or the parts or whole of an organ in vitro in such a way as to allow differentiation or preservation of the architecture or function.

    (Organ Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

    It is characterized by the presence of neuroepithelial cells and a papillary architecture.

    (Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region, NCI Thesaurus)

    A wide range of architectures are possible, but psammoma body formation is classical.

    (Mouse Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

    Severe dysplasia, disruption of normal architecture, increased mitotic activity, loss of cellular polarity

    (Mouse Islet Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)


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