| Colors that give an illusion of being closer to the observer; warm colors in which red-orange predominates.
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| The overt occupation of real property under some claim of right that is opposed to the claim of some other claimant.
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| Published notice for receiving of bids for a construction project.
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| A construction manager who is an advisor to the owner and who does not guarantee the construction cost.
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| A tool for cutting away the surface of wood, like an axe with an arched blade at right angles to the handle.
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| To introduce air into a substance, such as into water at the kitchen sink.
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| Act of combining substance with air.
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| Device which adds air to water; fills flowing water with bubbles.
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| Caisson Desease.
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| . 1. Relating to the air or atmosphere. 2. An antenna.
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| Activities or processes that can take place only in the presence of air or oxygen.
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| 1. A colloidal suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in gas, like smoke, fog, and mist. 2. A substance dispensed from a pressurized can in aerosol form.
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| Relating to the beautiful rather than to the merely pleasing, useful, or utilitarian; artistic and in accordance with the principles of good taste.
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| Concerned with beauty, refinement, and good taste.
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| Automatic Expansion Valve.
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| A written statement that is made under oath.
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| American Forest & Paper Association.
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| A building structure where the main structural members forming the roof and floors are in an A-shape.
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| An earthquake occurring subsequent to a large earthquake, the main shock; the magnitude of an aftershock is usually smaller than the main shock.
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| American Gas Association.
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| Associated General Contractors of America.
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| One who acts with delegated authority for a principal.
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| Formation of masses or aggregates of pigments; not dispersed.
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| Sheet material, usually plywood, with decorative face of aggregate bonded with epoxy applied to one face.
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| In a concrete batching plant, the bins that store the necessary aggregate sizes and feed them to the dryer in substantially the same proportions as are required in the finished mix.
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| One of the four ingredients of concrete, usually gravel, which is retained on a #4 sieve.
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| One of the four ingredients of concrete, usually sand, which will pass the #4 sieve and will be retained on the #200 sieve.
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| Aggregate of high specific gravity such as barite, magnetite, limonite, limenite, iron, or steel used to produce heavy concrete.
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| Aggregate of low specific gravity, such as expanded or sintered clay, shale, slate, diatomaceous shale, perlite, vermiculite, or slag; natural pumice, scoria, volcanic cinders, tuff, and diatomite, sintered fly ash, or industrial cinders; used to produce lightweight concrete; aggregate with a dry, loose weight of 70 pounds per cubic foot or less.
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| 1. Inert particles such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, or expanded materials, in a concrete, plaster, or terrazzo mixture. 2. Granular material, such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, and iron blast-furnace slag, used with a cementing medium to form a hydraulic-cement, concrete or mortar. 3. Crushed stone, crushed slag, or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof. 4. Any granular mineral material.
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