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adobe house — noun a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑sod house, ↑soddy • Hypernyms: ↑house …   Useful english dictionary

Adobe — A*do be ([.a]*d[=o] b[asl]), n. [Sp.] 1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico. [1913 Webster] 2. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [Western U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adobe — (Sp. model spelled same [aðóβe] < Arabic at tub the brick )    DARE: 1759.    1) Sundried brick made of clay, straw, and water.    2) A structure, usually a house, made from the same material.    3) Clay suitable for fashioning such bricks.… …   Vocabulario Vaquero

house — Synonyms and related words: Aktiengesellschaft, Dymaxion house, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, White House, abbey, abode, accommodate, adobe house, affiliation, agency, aktiebolag, amphitheater, ancestry, animal kingdom,… …   Moby Thesaurus

adobe —   Lepo kāwili, pōhaku lepo, akopie.    ♦ Adobe house, hale lepo …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

Adobe — bricks are a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, dung), which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe… …   Wikipedia

Adobe Systems — Infobox Company company name = Adobe Systems Incorporated company company type = Public (nasdaq|ADBE) company slogan = Better by Adobe foundation = flagicon|United States Mountain View, California (1982) location city = flagicon|United States San …   Wikipedia

Adobe Atmosphere — Infobox Software name = Adobe Atmosphere developer = Adobe Systems status = Unmaintained latest release version = 1.0.216 latest release date = February 2004 operating system = Microsoft Windows language = English genre = Raster graphics editor… …   Wikipedia

Adobe Illustrator — Infobox Software name = Adobe Illustrator caption = Adobe Illustrator CS3 running on Mac OS X developer = Adobe Systems latest release version = CS4 (14.0) latest release date = release date and age|2008|09|23 latest preview version = latest… …   Wikipedia

adobe — noun /aˈdəʊ.bi/ a) An unburnt brick dried in the sun. Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses. b) A house made of adobe brick. Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous… …   Wiktionary

adobe — UK [əˈdəʊbɪ] / US [əˈdoʊbɪ] noun Word forms adobe : singular adobe plural adobes 1) [uncountable] earth mixed with straw, used for making bricks to build houses 2) [countable] a house built using adobe bricks …   English dictionary