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Dictionary Definition A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used (which is often related to climate and availability of materials) and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable.
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- Barge Board: An ornamental board sometimes covering the fly rafters of a gable roof. With a cornice, it is the fascia board. May also be called verge board. Base or Baseboard: A narrow board or member placed at the juncture of the floor and wall to cover the joint.
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Gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesthetic concerns. A gable wall or gable end more commonly refers to the entire wall, including the gable and the wall below it. A variation of the gable is a crow-stepped gable, which has a stairstep design to accomplish the sloping portion.
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Definitions &Translations A facade or facade (/façade/) fəˈsɑːd is generally one exterior side of a, building, usually but not, always the. Front the word comes from The french, language literally  meaning  frontage  or . face
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- provided with a gable or gables: a gabled house. 2. built with a gable or gables. Origin of gabled.
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- Gable dormers are smaller pitched roof and walls units framed on top of the main roof. Shed dormers are built about the same but have a low-pitched roof. Gables add character and space to the roof level. A gable dormer is framed by marking existing rafters and cutting out the area the dormer will occupy.
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- gable, gabil, F. gable, fr. LL. gabalum front of a building, prob. of German or Scand. origin; cf. OHG. gibil, G. giebel gable, Icel. gafl, Goth. gibla pinnacle; perh. akin to Gr. head, and E. cephalic, or to G. gabel fork, AS.
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- Historical Examples. 1  In Becklow Road are a neat row of almshouses with gabled roofs. 2  At length I perceived from afar a gabled house that was built of yellow wood. 3  These are gabled, but by far the most have sawed off gables. 4  All around the gabled houses are abandoned in their last agony.
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Purlin A view of a roof using common purlin framing. This view is from the inside of the building, below the roof. The rafters are the beams of wood angled upward from the ground. They meet at the top of the gable at a ridge beam, which has extra bracing to attach it to the rafters.
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- façade noun (BUILDING) › [ 1  C ] the front of a building, especially a large or attractive building: › [ 2  S ] a false appearance that makes someone or something seem more pleasant or better than they really are: › 3  the front of a building: ›  A person’s façade is the image that person presents to others:
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- A gable roof slopes inward on two sides, and the other two sides have a wall with a triangle shape at the top; whereas, a hip roof slopes in on all four sides. The photo above shows intersecting gable and hip roofs: the hip roof is in the back on the main part of the house, and gable roof at the protruding garage. And here they are again below, represented in diagrams along with other popular roof styles.
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gambrel roof 1. mainly British. 1  a hipped roof having a small gable at both ends. 2  a roof having two slopes on both sides, the lower slopes being steeper than the upper. 3  a roof with two slopes on each of its two sides, the lower steeper than the upper.
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Shed style (May 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Vanna Venturi House, one of the influences of the shed style (note the two shed roofs, rather than a single gable). Shed Style refers to a style of architecture that makes use of single-sloped roofs (commonly called shed roofs). The style originated from the designs of architects Charles Willard Moore and Robert Venturi in the 1960s.
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List of roof shapes 1 Hip, hipped: A hipped roof is sloped in two pairs of directions (e.g. N-S and E-W) compared to the one pair of direction (e.g. N-S or E-W) for a gable roof. 2  Half-hipped: A hybrid of a gable and a hipped roof. ( 3 See above.). 4  Dutch gable, gablet: The reverse hybrid of a hipped and a gable roof.
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- The definition of a facade is the front of a building facing a public space or an artificial front or appearance by someone. 1  An example of facade is the front of the local mall. 2  An example of facade is the putting on of a smile when really feeling quite upset.
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- Retrieved from https://diablo.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Hawthorne_Gable&oldid=141370
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Gable While a front-gabled building faces the street with its gable, a side-gabled building faces it with its cullis, meaning the ridge is parallel to the street. The terms are used in architecture and city planning to determine a building in its urban situation.
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gambrel The opposite end is very different, and has a hipped or gambrel gable. gambrel, gam′brel, n. the hock of a horse: a crooked stick used by butchers for suspending a carcass while dressing it. The gambrel or Octagonal Roof, and consists of two eight and two nine inch boards thirty-four inches long.
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gable 1. (Architecture) the triangular upper part of a wall between the sloping ends of a pitched roof. 2. (Architecture) a triangular ornamental feature in the form of a gable, esp as used over a door or window. 3. (Architecture) the triangular wall on both ends of a gambrel roof.
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- Dan Gable. Danny Mack Dan Gable (born October 25, 1948) is a retired American Olympic wrestler and head coach. He is best known for his tenure as head coach at the University of Iowa where he won 15 NCAA team titles between 1976 and 1997.
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Cornice A rake is an architectural term for an eave or cornice which runs along the gable of the roof of a modern residential structure. It may also be called a sloping cornice, a raking cornice. The trim and rafters at this edge are called rake-, verge-, or barge-board or verge-or barge-rafter. It is a sloped timber on the outside facing edge of a roof running between the ridge and the eave.
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Facade A facade or facade (/façade/) fəˈsɑːd is generally one exterior side of a, building, usually but not, always the. fronttymology [edit]. The word comes from the French word facade, façade which in turn comes from The italian, facciata from faccia meaning, face ultimately from-post Classical latin. facia
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Hip Roofs A hip roof, also called a hipped roof, is a roof where all the sides slope down to the eaves. There are no vertical sides (a gabled roof) and no flat sides (a flat roof).
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saddle roof saddle roof - a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end. gable roof, saddleback roof, saddleback. gambrel, gambrel roof - a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper. gutter, trough - a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater.
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Gable Gabled roofs take many forms, including this L shape. When the floor plan calls for a T-shaped house, the roof is called cross-gabled. If one of the sloping sides ends in a wall that's shorter than the wall on the other side, it's a saltbox. There are also terms to distinguish gabled roofs that show their slanting side on the front (side-gabled) from those where the pointed wall is prominent (front-gabled).