| A roof structure containing the machine room for an electric traction elevator.
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| A lined vertical shaft in a building, usually of a fire-rated construction, in which the elevator cab ascends and descends.
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| 1. A hoisting machine in a shaft;a cable or chain hoist conveying system used for raising material or passengers in a cab, cage, or platform. 2. A building for elevating, storing, discharging, and sometimes processing grain; a grain elevator.
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| 1. A closed plane curve generated by a point moving in such a way that the sums of its distances from two fixed points is a constant. 2. An oval.
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| A solid like a flattened sphere.
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| shaped like an ellipse.
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| The state of being lengthened.
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| A fill whose top is higher than the adjoining surface.
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| In application of gypsum wallboard, to apply and cover joint tape with joint compound.
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| The length of embedded steel reinforcement provided beyond a critical section.
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| 1. The process of pressing a felt, aggregate, fabric, mat, or panel uniformly and completely into hot bitumen or adhesive. 2. The process of placing a material into another material so that it becomes an integral part of the whole material.
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| Theft of property which has become a possession of the thief; to appropriate property, that is entrusted to ones care, fraudulently for ones own use.
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| 1. Carve or mold in relief. 2. Form designs so that they stand out on a surface. 3. Make protuberant. 4. Adorn or embellish.
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| Wallpaper run through rollers with raised areas to provide a light relief effect.
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| In carpet, the type of pattern formed when heavy twisted tufts are used in a ground of straight yarns to create an engraved appearance; both the straight and twisted yarns are often of the same color.
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| A gasoline powered motor and electrical generator provided for emergency lighting and power during interruption of the normal electrical supply.
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| slow-cutting, short-lived abrasive.
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| Electromotive Force.
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| The power of the state to take private property for public use, upon payment of a fair price.
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| A measure of the propensity of a material to give off thermal radiation.
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| A formula that is developed from experience rather than from scientific theory.
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| A method of obtaining deep penetration of a wood preservative with a relatively low net retention of the preservative; surplus preservative is removed from the wood cells by vacuum.
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| Electrical Metallic Tubing.
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| A mixture of emulsified asphalt and aggregate; produced in a central plant (plant mix) or mixed at the road site (mixed-in-place).
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| An emulsion of asphalt cement and water that contains a small amount of an emulsifying agent, a heterogeneous system containing two normally immiscible phases (asphalt and water) in which the water forms the continuous phase of the emulsion, and minute globules of asphalt form the discontinuous phase. Emulsified asphalt may be of either the anionic, electronegatively charged asphalt globules, or cationic, the electropositively charged asphalt globule types, depending upon the emulsifying agent.
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| Material which, when added to a mixture of dissimilar materials will produce a stable emulsion.
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| substances of chemical nature that intimately mix and disperse dissimilar materials ordinarily immiscible, such as oil and water, to produce a stable emulsion; a substance which when added to a liquid permits suspension of fine particles or globules in the liquid.
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| Water-thinned paint with an emulsified oil, resin, or latex vehicle.
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| 1. A fine dispersion of one liquid in another, as in paint; emulsion paint is a water-thinned paint containing a non-volatile substance as its binding medium. 2. In roofing, a coating consisting of asphalt and fillers suspended in water.
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| A paint which dries to a hard gloss or semi-gloss smooth finish.
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