carpentered
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]carpentered (comparative more carpentered, superlative most carpentered)
- Built by a carpenter.
- 2012, International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home - Volume 7, page 278:
- Houses are run up from wood, metal, and cardboard debris, although some of the better, carpentered homes scarcely differ from the chattel houses of the rent yards (Figure 7).
- 2014, Jon Campbell-Copp, Wake of the Sun:
- Carpentered cupboards were installed above, while over a dozen drawers of varying size were built into the space beneath the counter, creating a sense that counter and drawers were one continuous piece of wood.
- 2018, James Williams, Felicitas Hentschke, To be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World, page 206:
- As vestiges of feudal superstition, ancestral tablets were not considered objects for a public audience during the Maoist era and were hidden from view in carpentered cabinets.
- 2019, Charlotte Bruckermann, Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China, page 58:
- These ornately carved and carpentered cabinets at the ancestral altar were often complemented with offerings of liquor, flowers, and incense in delicate glass vases.
- Containing or involving right angles and vertical and horizontal edges.
- 2012, Michael W. Eysenck, Simply Psychology, page 301:
- They argued that this illusion would only be perceived by those with experience of a carpentered environment, which contains numerous rectangles, straight lines, and regular corners.
- 2014, Mallory Wober, Psychology in Africa, page 104:
- People who live in 'more carpentered' environments would be more susceptible.
- 2019, Dale Purves ·, Brains as Engines of Association, page 94:
- Whether in "natural" scenes or scenes in which there are more “carpentered” angles due to human artifacts, the result is the same: the frequency of occurrence of projected angles is greater at the two ends of the angular range and least in the middle—that is around 90 degrees.
- Created or built with a formal structure.
- 1988, Robert G. Collins, E.J. Pratt, page 137:
- Towards the Last Spike is more carpentered in form than the earlier narratives.
- 1991, Selwyn D. Ryan, The Muslimeen Grab for Power, page 339:
- Is Jamaica society more sedimented than that of Trinidad? Is Trinidad society more carpentered by comparison and thus more likely to fly apart if put under heavy social pressure?
- 2020, Joe Mackall, Daniel W. Lehman, River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction, page 162:
- Essays maybe are a little more carpentered, you know ?
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[edit]carpentered
- simple past and past participle of carpenter