| A solid wood band attached to a horizontal structural member.
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| A reinforced horizontal concrete masonry or concrete beam installed in place to strengthen a masonry wall and tie a masonry wall together.
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| A horizontal structural member which transversely supports a load and transfers the load to vertical members, made of a composite material consisting of sand, coarse aggregate, cement and water.
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| An end-supported horizontal load-bearing foundation member that supports an exterior wall or other building load.
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| A concrete horizontal structural member that is cast and cured in other than its final position, on- or off-site.
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| A horizontal member installed to strengthen and support the load of a structure.
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| A horizontal member constructed of plasterboard.
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| A straight structural member that acts primarily to resist transverse loads; a structural element which sustains transverse loading and develops internal forces of bending and shear in resisting the loads; an inclusive term for joists, girders, rafters, and purlins.
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| In carpeting, long fiber fuzz occurring on some loop pile fabrics, caused by fibers snagging and loosening due to inadequate anchorage.
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| A piece of wood fastened to a column to provide support for a beam or girder.
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| Allowable bearing capacity; the maximum allowable load on a structural element.
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| A block of metal, plastic, or synthetic material used to cushion the point at which one structural element rests upon another.
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| A partition that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
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| A plate placed under a truss, beam, girder, or column to distribute the load.
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| A wall which supports any vertical loads in addition to its own weight.
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| 1. Part of a machine that supports and aligns a rotating or other moving part. 2. That part of a lintel, beam, girder or truss, which rests upon a column, pier or wall.
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| A wooden block used to embed tiles in a flat plane; the method used is called beating in.
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| A unit for measuring radiation from radium and radon.
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| See Bedding Coat.
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| The horizontal layer of mortar in which a masonry unit is set.
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| A flat area in a cornice, designed to have enrichment planted later; also called Bed.
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| A molding in an angle, as between the overhanging cornice or eaves of a building and the sidewalls.
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| 1. The horizontal surface on which the bricks of a wall lie in courses, also the mortar on which the brick rests. 2. See Bed Mold.
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| A separation or weakness between two layers of rock, caused by changes during the building up of the rock- forming material.
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| 1. A filling of mortar, putty, or other substance in order to secure a firm bearing. 2. Ground or supports in which pipe is laid.
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| 1. In gypsum board, the first coat of joint compound over tape, bead, and fastener heads; also called Bed Coat. 2. That coat of plaster to receive aggregate or other decorative material of any size, impinged or embedded into its surface before it sets.
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| A solid layer or stratum of rock beneath ground level; solid rock as distinguished from boulders.
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| A room for sleeping.
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| Wax produced by honey bee.
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| These include human relations, cooperation, responsibility, communication and executive ability.
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