Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - terrace
Terrace
terrace
n. & v. --n. 1 each of a series of flat areas formed on a slope and used for cultivation. 2 a level paved area next to a house. 3 a a row of houses on a raised level or along the top or face of a slope. b a row of houses built in one block of uniform style. 4 a flight of wide shallow steps as for spectators at a sports ground. 5 Geol. a raised beach, or a similar formation beside a river etc. --v.tr. form into or provide with a terrace or terraces. Phrases and idioms terraced house Brit. = terrace house. terraced roof a flat roof esp. of an Indian or Eastern house. terrace house Brit. any of a row of houses joined by party-walls. Etymology: OF ult. f. L terra earth
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I. noun see: thirst Date: 1515 1. a colonnaded porch or promenade, a flat roof or open platform, a relatively level paved or planted area adjoining a building, 2. a raised embankment with the top leveled, one of usually a series of horizontal ridges made in a hillside to increase cultivatable land, conserve moisture, or minimize erosion, a level ordinarily narrow plain usually with steep front bordering a river, lake, or sea, 4. a row of houses or apartments on raised ground or a sloping site, a group of row houses, a strip of park in the middle of a street often planted with trees or shrubs, street, a section of a British soccer stadium set aside for standing spectators, II. transitive verb (~d; terracing) Date: 1650 to provide (as a building or hillside) with a ~, to make into a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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