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Definition of adobes in English English dictionary
- adobe
- An unburnt brick dried in the sun
The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
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- A house made of adobe brick
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- {i} brick made from dried clay
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- Med bricks reinforced with straw Used particularly in Latin America and southwestern USA, adobe produces a distinctive architectural style based on organic forms, a smooth finish, and a minimum of window openings
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- the clay from which adobe bricks are made
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- (constr) (sol) Sun-dried brick of clay and straw Also the clay and soil used for making such bricks Adobe is high in THERMAL MASS and is useful in low-cost building construction F - adobe S - adobe
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- Bricks made of a mixture of mud and straw and sun dried A cheap, sturdy building material, adobe buildings will last for centuries if they have a foundation (usually stone) which protects them from damp entering the wall from below and a roof which protects them from damp from above Adobe continues to be a major material of domestic construction in much of South America In prehispanic times adobe bricks were of different shapes and there is a rough correlation of shape with time (in Peru) Thus, conical adobes are typical of the Early Horizon, while later periods saw globular, lump-shaped, tooth-shaped, and rectangular adobes in use
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- In Graphic Communications this refers to the Adobe Software Corporation, creator of such computer software applications as PageMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and many others
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- An ancient brick building technique using mud and sometimes some straw material
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- Clay and silt mixed together Mostly applied to deposits found in the desert basins of the southwestern United States and Mexico where the material is commonly used in the manufacture of bricks
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- Adobe is the firm who designed and owns the PostScript language The patent that printer manufacturers must pay to Adobe is the main reason why PostScript printers are so expansive
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- sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates
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- Unburnt brick dried in the sun, commonly used for building in the American Southwest, Spain and Latin America Usually covered with stucco in homes
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- A software company that makes software such as Photoshop, After Effects You can find them at www adobe com Top of page
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- one of the world's largest software developers - responsible for Acrobat, PhotoShop, & Premiere
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- sun-dried (unburnt), clay-soil brick; the clay was often mixed with chaff, straw, chopped weeds, tule reeds, or sometimes manure for historic adobe bricks in California, with the individual brick sizes approximately eleven by twenty-five inches and of two-to-five inches thickness; each brick weighed about sixty pounds; Spanish word derived from Arabic atob (mud)
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- Sun dried (i e baked) clay in block form Typically about 4 x 18 x 20 inches, adobe blocks are made from clayey soil, water and sometimes straw is added as a binder
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- Vendor of (among others) SGML/XML tools, e g the Acrobat Reader, FrameMaker, FrameMaker+SGML, and SVG stuff Homepage
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- A building material made out of a mixture of clay, straw & water
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- A brick or building material made of alluvial clay and straw
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- (not PhotoShop J) pöhakulepo bread: palaoa
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- A building material made froma mixture of sun-dried mud and straw; also, a structure made from adobe bricks
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- heavy clay soil, not suitable for container gardening or hydroponics
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- an air/dried brick of clay/sand mix and sometimes straw, used in construction Within the United States, adobe is used primarily in the Southwest
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- A building material made from clay, straw, and water, formed into blocks, and dried; used traditionally in the southwestern U S
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- A standard for printers which is followed by some expensive printers
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- Mud brick that is dried in the sun The first adobe bricks were used 8,500 years ago in the Middle East
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- Calcareous silts and sandy-silty clays, usually high in colloidal clay content, found in the semiarid regions of the southwestern United States and North Africa
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- Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals
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- sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates the clay from which adobe bricks are made
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- Earth from which unburnt bricks are made
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- An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico
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- Adobe is a mixture of mud and straw that is dried into bricks in the sun and used for building, especially in hot countries. a few blocks of adobe houses. earth and straw that are made into bricks for building houses (at-tub , from tobe ). Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. As a building material, adobe dates back thousands of years and is found in many parts of the world. Molds for shaping the bricks were brought to the New World by the Spanish. Excellent insulating properties make adobe an ideal material for both dwellings and ovens; home interiors retain heat in winter and stay cool in summer. The adobe buildings at Taos, N.M., are typical of Native American pueblo dwellings
- adobe
- An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective as an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico