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Gable
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Triangular section of wall beneath the ridge of the roof, particularly over a window set vertically into the roof. |
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Gallery
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An intermediate floors or platform projecting from a wall of an auditorium or a hall providing extra floor area, additional seating accommodation etc. Long thin room, also in a church, an upper floor overlooking the nave. |
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Garage
Private
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A building or outhouse designed or used for the storage of private owned motor driven or other vehicles. |
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Garage
Public
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A building or portion thereof designed other than a private garage, operated for gain, designed or used for repairing, servicing, hiring, selling, or storing motor driven or other driven vehicles. |
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Garden
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A piece of ground on which flowers are cultivated. |
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Geodesic
Dome
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Hemispherical dome made of prefabricated geometrically shaped units interconnecting to give stability in all directions. |
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Gothic
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West European architectural style of the 12th -15th centuries, characterised by pointed arches. Aspects of the style were revived in later centuries |
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Gutter
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Channel for conveying away water esp. at the road side or at the end of the eaves of a roof.. |
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Gymnasium
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A place, hall, building for gymnastics, a place where athletic exercises were practised. |