terrace

(tĕr'ĭs)

1. 1. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.
   2. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
2. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
3. 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.
4. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
5. 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.
6. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
7. Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking (sense 3). See Regional Note at parking.

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.]

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A bench-like feature. See river terrace, terrace cultivation.

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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• 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:

• Terrace (agriculture), a leveled surface
• Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
• Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain
• Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
• Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
• Terrace (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in Europe and South America, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes
• Fluvial (stream or river) terrace, natural, flat surface or surfaces that border(s) and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river.
• Tone terracing in phonetics
• Terrace melodic motion in music

Places

• Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
• Terrace, Utah, a ghost town in the Great Salt Lake Desert, United States

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.'

See also

• The Terrace, a 1963 Argentine film

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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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