terrace

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(tĕr'ĭs) pronunciation
n.
    1. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.
    2. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
  1. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
  2. A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.
  3. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
    1. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
    2. A section of row houses.
    3. (Abbr. Ter. or Terr.) A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
  4. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
  5. Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking (sense 3). See Regional Note at parking.
tr.v., -raced, -rac·ing, -rac·es.
  1. To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.
  2. To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.

[French, from Old French, from Old Provençal terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrācea, feminine of *terrāceus, earthen, from Latin terra, earth.]



1. An embankment with level top, often paved, planted, and adorned for leisure use.
2. A flat roof or a raised space or platform adjoining a building, paved or planted, esp. one used for leisure enjoyment.



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1. In archaeology a terrace is an artificially created more or less level platform cut into the side of a hill. Often they are made by digging back into the hillslope while throwing the resultant quarried material forward downslope to extend the width of the platform. Revetments are sometimes made on the downslope side to contain the redeposited material. The resultant terrace is usually planted with a crop such as cereals or vines.

2. In geology terraces are broadly horizontal deposits of gravels laid down by river systems at different times in the past. The gravels in these deposits sometimes contain archaeological material. See also river terrace.

terrace, a level field built on top of a hillslope into the floor of a deep valley to improve cultivation of crops. Terracing uses the runoff from the hill to increase soil retentiveness and arability and is often part of a larger irrigation system that includes canals. Although widespread in areas of high population pressure, such as Japan and the Philippines, it has been abandoned in some regions, such as the Mediterranean, because of its high maintenance costs.


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IN BRIEF: A level area that is outside a house, apartment or other building; balcony. Also: A raised, leveled-off section of ground, usually in a series.

pronunciation His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer. — Anatole Broyard (1920-1990)

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For a list of words related to terracing, see:
  • Soils and Soil Management - terracing: forming of hillside into series of flat, raised mounds to reduce erosion in growing areas


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A terrace may refer to:

Places

Proper names

  • Terraces (Bahá'í), nineteen terraces that beautify the Bahá'í Faith's Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel
  • Terrace F. Club, a Princeton University eating club
  • Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game played on a terraced board.
  • St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, a private Christian Brothers school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, commonly known as Terrace
  • Mutual Street Arena, originally, Arena Gardens, the first artificial ice rink in Toronto, Canada, it was later converted to a roller skating rink bearing the name "The Terrace".

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - terrasse, afsats
v. tr. - anlægge i terrasser

Nederlands (Dutch)
huizenblok, (dak)terras, tribune

Français (French)
n. - terrasse, (Archit) alignement (de maisons identiques et contiguës), gradins (npl)
v. tr. - arranger en terrasses

Deutsch (German)
n. - Terrasse, (einförmige od. erhöht gelegene) Häuserreihe, Tribüne
v. - terrassenförmig anlegen, mit Terrassen versehen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ταράτσα, βεράντα, πλακόστρωτη αυλή, αναβαθμίδα (κν. πεζούλα), σειρά κατοικιών που χωρίζονται με μεσοτοιχία
v. - σχηματίζω σειρά ή επίπεδο

Italiano (Italian)
caseggiato, tribuna, terrazzo, terrazzare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - terraço (m), socalço (m), plataforma (f), fileira (f) de casas construídas num declive, varanda (f)
v. - formar ou construir terraços

Русский (Russian)
терраса, веранда, открытая галерея, портик,балкон, колоннада, уступ, насыпь

Español (Spanish)
n. - hilera de casas adosadas, gradas, tribunas, terraza, azotea, terraplén
v. tr. - construir terrazas o bancales, terraplenar, proveer de terraza

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - terrass, avsats, husrad
v. - terrassera, anlägga i terrasser

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
大阳台, 平台屋顶, 露台, 露天阶梯看台, 使成梯形地, 使有平台屋顶

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大陽臺, 平臺屋頂, 露臺, 露天階梯看臺
v. tr. - 使成梯形地, 使有平臺屋頂

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 대지, 테라스
v. tr. - 계단식 단을 만들다, 축대를 쌓다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 台地, 段丘, テラス, 立見の見物席, 平屋根, テラスハウス
v. - ひな壇式にする, テラスを付ける

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سطح بيت, سطيحه, مصطبه, دكه (فعل) يصطب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מדרג או טרסה (מדרגה חקלאית בצלע הר), שורת בתים בשטח מיושר, מדרגה (ביציע-הצופים), מרפסת פתוחה, שורת בתים, חוף או גדה גבוהים‬
v. tr. - ‮בנה טרסות‬


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