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1. Adobe
   Adobe is a heavy type of soil comprised mainly of clay and silt. Adobe is a very hard clay and is used to make bricks and plaster and is frequently used in Latin America, notable Mexico, to make houses, which are then popularly known as adobes, hence in popular parlance an adobe is a Mexican clay-brick house.
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2. Adobe
   One of the world's biggest software companies. Adobe designed the PostScript printer language and Type 1 fonts. It is also...
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3. adobe
   [n] - the clay from which adobe bricks are made 2. [n] - sun-dried brick
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4. Adobe
   Is basically dirt that has been moistened with water, sometimes with chopped straw or other fibers added for strength, and then allowed to dry in the desired shape. Commonly adobe is shaped into uniform blocks that can be stacked like bricks to form walls
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5. Adobe
   A clay similar to loess
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6. adobe
   In architecture, a building method employing sun-dried earth bricks; also the individual bricks. The use of earth bricks and the construction of walls by enclosing earth within...
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7. adobe
   1)Sun-dried mud brick, used in the construction of low-cost houses; Particularly vulnerable in earthquakes; 2)Geology: fine rock powder formed in the glaciation period and deposited in certain areas by wind and water Category: Management in the public and private sector
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8. Adobe
   Regular body made of dried clay, usually incorporating straw to give it cohesion.
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9. Adobe
   A·do'be (ȧ*dō'ba) noun [ Spanish ] An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
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10. Adobe
    A·do'be noun 1. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [ Western U. S.] 2. (Geol.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
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11. adobe
    adobe brick noun sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates
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12. adobe
    noun the clay from which adobe bricks are made
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13. Adobe
    • (n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico. • (n.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals. • (n.) Earth...
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14. adobe
    a heavy clay soil used to make sun-dried bricks. The term, Spanish-Moorish in origin, also denotes the bricks themselves.[2 related articles]
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15. ADOBE
    Blocks of adobe clay and water mixed with straw and horse manure, formed in wooden molds, and baked in the sun. Adobe was a common building material at the missions. The average weight of a dried block was approximately 60 pounds. Adobe walls are therefore very heavy and need to be very thick to be strong enough to bear not only their own weight bu...
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16. Adobe
    A building material made from clay, straw, and water, formed into blocks, and dried; used traditionally in the southwestern U.S.
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17. adobe
    adobe (udō'bē) : see rammed earth.
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18. Adobe
    In geology, adobe are alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
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19. adobe
    In architecture, a building method employing sun-dried earth bricks; also the individual bricks. The use of earth bricks and the construction of walls by enclosing earth within moulds (pisé de terre) are the two principal methods of raw-earth building. The techniques are commonly found in Spain, Latin America, an...
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