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Definition of Basements
1. basement [n] - See also: basement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basements
| baselining baseload baseload capacity baseload demand baseloads basely basename basenames baseness basenesses | basenet basenets basenji basenjis basepair basepairs basepath basepaths baseperson basepersons |
Literary usage of Basements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1913)
"By AIEE CONVERTING SUBSTATIONS IN basements AND SUB-basements BY BG JAMIESON The
type of substation discussed in this paper is that which is located below ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"A rather casual examination of the standard works, on hygiene, of Parkes, Buck,
Wilson, and others, fails to reveal any condemnation of basements, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture by William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt (1825)
"OF basements AND ATTICS. INSTEAD of employing several orders one above the other
... The proportion of these basements is not fixed, it depends on various ..."
4. Domestic Sanitary Engineering and Plumbing: Dealing with Domestic Water by Frank W. Raynes (1909)
"Drainage of basements and Sewage Lifts.—Speaking generally, the drainage of a
... In many large buildings with basements and sub-basements, liquid waste ..."
5. Soiling, Ensilage, and Stable Construction: Being a Revised Edition of by Frank Sherman Peer (1900)
"I have had much experience with stone and brick wall basements, and would on no
account recommend them for any kind of stock. ..."
6. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1816)
"... are of Portland stone, with basements, Corinthian columns, entablatures,
pediments, and balustrades. The other houses seen in the view, are of brick, ..."
7. Journal of the Sanitary Institute by Sanitary Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"DISCUSSION ON THE FLOODING OF basements IN LONDON BY SEWAGE. ... to consider is
a very large one, namely the Flooding of basements in London, and I can only ..."
8. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1882)
"... they are killed as a cure for leprosy, they are walled up in basements (ch.
XXXV. XXXVI, end); and a feature that particularly points to a primitive ..."
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