| A window that moves horizontally in tracks.
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| Measuring device with wet and dry bulb thermometers; moved rapidly through air it measures humidity; see Hygrometer.
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| see Soft Mud Brick.
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| A ceramic material or mixture other than a glaze, applied to a ceramic body and fired to the maturity required to develop specified characteristics.
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| A pipe coupling which has no stop to prevent it from slipping over a pipe; used to make water tight joints in plastic or copper pipe during a repair or alteration.
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| A form which is raised or pulled as concrete is placed; may move vertically to form walls, stacks, bins or silos, usually of uniform cross section from bottom to top; or a generally horizontal direction to lay concrete evenly for highways, on slopes and inverts of canals, tunnels and siphons.
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| Building multistory sitecast concrete walls with forms that rise up the wall as construction progresses.
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| A glaze consisting primarily of a readily fusible clay or silt.
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| 1. A contraction joint in a concrete or masonry wall that allows lateral movement. 2. A connection in which one pipe slides inside another allowing for expansion and contraction without breaking.
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| A nut used on P straps; a gasket is compressed around the joint by the slip nut to form a watertight seal.
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| A sheet of paper used in a built up roof installation to allow the roofing to move over the substrate.
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| A masonry sill which fits directly into a masonry opening.
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| 1. An inadvertent or trivial mistake. 2. A suspension of ceramic material in liquid. 3. A small geological fault. 4. A long, thin, strip of wood.
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| A steel connection in which high-strength bolts clamp the members together with sufficient force that the load is transferred between them by friction.
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| In asphalt paving, crescent-shaped cracks that are open in the direction of the thrust of wheels on the pavement surface; they result when there is a lack of good bond between the surface layer and the course beneath.
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| The lateral movement between adjacent plies of roofing felt along the bitumen lines resulting in a randomly wrinkled appearance and sometimes exposing the lower plies or even the base sheet to the weather.
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| Tile having greater slip-resistant characteristics due to an abrasive admixture, abrasive particles in the surface or grooves or patterns in the surface.
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| A Splinter.
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| A deeper fixture than an ordinary sink. Custodians type sink See Service Sink.
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| An inclined position or direction; the rate of incline.
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| Description of a tile that has been cut to fit around pipes or switch boxes. This tile is usually in the shape of the letter H or the letter L.
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| A weld made in an elongated hole in one member of a lap or tee joint joining that member to that portion of the surface of the other member which is exposed through the hole; the hole may be open at one end and may be partially or completely filled with weld metal; a fillet-welded slot should not be construed as conforming to this definition.
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| A groove in an object into which a fastener or connector is inserted to attach objects together.
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| An opening in a member to receive a connection with another part.
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| The most common of screwdriver types, has a flat square blade; also called a Flat Head Screwdriver.
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| 1. A swamp or backwater. 2. A creek in a marsh or tidal flat.
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| Requiring 24 hours or longer before recoating is possible.
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| Cutback asphalt composed of asphalt cement and oils of low volatility.
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| 1. A muddy, greasy deposit or sediment. 2. Precipitated solid matter produced by water and sewage treatment processes.
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| 1. In the English system (feet, pounds, seconds), the slug is that mass which when acted on by a 1 pound force acquires an acceleration of 1 foot per second per second. 2. Detached mass of liquid or oil which causes an impact or hammer in a circulating system.
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