Definition of gable in English:
gable
nounˈɡeɪb(ə)lˈɡeɪbəl
1The triangular upper part of a wall at the end of a ridged roof.
（坡顶墙的）三角形建筑部分a house with mock-Tudor gables- They set up a small building with wooden gables on its roof.
- James had designed and built the house with an extended gable in the roof.
- As it stood there, lifting its proud roofs and gables to the sky, it might have been its own funeral monument.
- A simple, small-scale pavilion, raised above grassy terrain and roofed with a simple gable with generous overhangs, is built of plywood panels with glass louvers set into a lightweight steel frame.
- Profuse with cobbled streets, the steeply pitched roofs, prominent cross gables with the structures lavishly covered with ornamental half-timbering, this part of town gave her an archaic feeling.
- The roof is an inverted gable, a reference to all the gabled houses in the neighborhood.
- Historians think they had roof gables facing the street.
- The house, with its steeply pitched red-tiled roof, precipitous gables and tall tapering chimneys, is L-shaped with a well-head in the angle, its conical top resembling a Welsh wizard's hat.
- Note the white walls, terracotta roof and the gables of the building.
- At one point, they measured the angle of the roof gables at Machu Picchu and advised the artist to make them steeper.
- A slight pagoda-like lift to the gables and unusual terracotta roof ornaments lend a hint of the exotic to the large shingled houses.
- The landscape which preoccupies me happens to be in its nature fairly geometric, like the triangular gable of a roof, the crossed bars of a gate or the circular shape of an oil drum head on.
- At its height, the storm lifted gables and roofs from buildings, flung rafters and entire advertising kiosks through the air, tore trees from the ground, and drove human beings before it like living torches.
- From outside, it seems to be unnecessarily picturesque to give the mass the planners had required to balance that of the bed factory, a brick gable fronting a pitched roof covered in industrial corrugated cladding.
- The prevailing style of the roughly 3,800 neighboring houses features large gables and verandas, with porticos, pediments, and glossy interiors.
- Rather than facing in one direction, the gables of the main house meet to form a 90-degree angle dictated by the T-shaped floor plan.
- The Deadwood house has a typical asymmetrical composition with a steeply pitched hipped roof and a front-facing gable.
- Exterior features of the house are a steeply pitched roof, large gables and architectural details such as the ornamental dripstones above the mullion windows.
- I also found myself strangely unable to go to bed while building a model house with a roof of valleys and gables.
- Those living in the Alpine or forest regions have traditionally lived in wooden houses with shingled or tiled roofs and carved gables.
- 1.1 A wall topped with a gable.三角墙；山墙
- They didn't realise there was any problem with putting it on the gable end and her husband had only finished it the day before the planning officer called.
- The gable end of a newly-built block of flats came tumbling down in Topping Street, off Walmersley Road, Bury, and landed on a Mercedes car, smashing its windows.
- But in Byrom Street, Blackburn town centre, near to the old St Wilfrid's school building, the gable end of a derelict church was blown down.
- Daubing a slogan on a wall is far cheaper than covering a gable end, and quicker.
- The mural on the gable end of the recently painted community centre is, ‘always a pleasant surprise,’ said the adjudicators.
- But the task proved impossible because the gable end of the building is used as an anchor point for a cable owned by the electricity company.
- But he had the perseverance to try to perfect the skills of the game and this he did hitting a ball off the gable end of his Tinnahinch home and playing hurling in the yard between the family home and that of his uncle's house.
- Three hours after industrial action was confirmed, blue watch was called to the village of Thorner, where a car carrying five young people had careered off the road, smashed through a garden wall and into the gable end of a house.
- It was a lovely evening, we watched hundreds of masonry bees excavating the soft sandstone of a gable end, chortled at a dollop of doggerel on the subject of dog dirt and strode off down a dead-end lane.
- They have all these fancy windows which are pointing out towards a blank lane while the building's side, which is nothing more than a blank gable end, points at one of the finest views in Europe.
- A fireball then burst from the gable end of the second property and damaged a third.
- Designer Tony Cooper turned a wall at the gable end into a built-in unit that meets all the requirements.
- A building was also damaged near Castlecroddick when the gable end of a large garage collapsed during the gales.
- Part of Selby town centre was cordoned off when the gable end of a shop was struck by lightning, leaving a chimney stack poised precariously over a busy shopping street.
- Worthy of note too was the altar arrangements beneath the gable end of what was once the Parish Church of Monasterevin.
- It is a real shame even to have lost the Victorian structure, but some of the frontage and the gable end are even older.
- Initially I shall think small, accepting private commissions on the basis of work exhibited on the gable end of the shop.
- Barmaid Kathryn, 22, said: ‘They only came to render the wall and repair the gable end.’
- Part of the gable end of the headquarters of York & County Press in Walmgate, York, has been removed to allow a new four-tonne automatic inserter to be moved into place.
- She had told the court the repeated football playing by neighbourhood children and thudding of a ball on the gable end wall of their home in nearby Primrose Grove, had driven her and her husband to the end of their tether.
- 1.2 A gable-shaped canopy over a window or door.（窗或门上方的）三角形顶篷
- I shivered as the rain began to soak me through; I quickly stepped back under the protection of the small gable over the door.
Derivatives
gabled
- Take a brisk walk along the waterfront to admire the modern sculptures and shoals of kayakers, and then take a more leisurely amble upwards to appreciate the grand villas and gabled weatherboard terraces of the hillside suburbs.
- As your ship passes three- and four-story Dutch colonial buildings with steep, gabled tile roofs and small dormer windows, you spot streets, too narrow for autos, lined with shops.
- Eerie sounds emit from the dark, gabled building just about 50 meters from her bedroom window, from which she peeks and stares, trying to decipher what unsavory shenanigans are being committed over there.
- It has two three-bay kilns with pyramid-shaped roofs and raised flat-topped flues and a timber-framed lucam - a projecting loading door with a gabled roof through which barley was hoisted into the building to be turned into malt.
- Two gabled mansions with curly upturned eaves are connected by a horizontal two-storey section, topped with yellow-bodied, blue-headed dragons with large pointy teeth and tails thrashing the air.
adjectiveˈɡeɪbəldˈɡeɪbəld
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from Old Norse gafl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaffel and German Gabel 'fork' (the point of the gable originally being the fork of two crossed timbers supporting the end of the roof-tree).
Rhymes
Abel, able, Babel, cable, enable, fable, label, Mabel, sable, stable, table
Definition of gable in US English:
gable
nounˈɡeɪbəlˈɡābəl
1The part of a wall that encloses the end of a pitched roof.
（坡顶墙的）三角形建筑部分a house with mock-Tudor gables- Rather than facing in one direction, the gables of the main house meet to form a 90-degree angle dictated by the T-shaped floor plan.
- Profuse with cobbled streets, the steeply pitched roofs, prominent cross gables with the structures lavishly covered with ornamental half-timbering, this part of town gave her an archaic feeling.
- At one point, they measured the angle of the roof gables at Machu Picchu and advised the artist to make them steeper.
- The Deadwood house has a typical asymmetrical composition with a steeply pitched hipped roof and a front-facing gable.
- Historians think they had roof gables facing the street.
- A slight pagoda-like lift to the gables and unusual terracotta roof ornaments lend a hint of the exotic to the large shingled houses.
- A simple, small-scale pavilion, raised above grassy terrain and roofed with a simple gable with generous overhangs, is built of plywood panels with glass louvers set into a lightweight steel frame.
- I also found myself strangely unable to go to bed while building a model house with a roof of valleys and gables.
- The prevailing style of the roughly 3,800 neighboring houses features large gables and verandas, with porticos, pediments, and glossy interiors.
- Note the white walls, terracotta roof and the gables of the building.
- Those living in the Alpine or forest regions have traditionally lived in wooden houses with shingled or tiled roofs and carved gables.
- At its height, the storm lifted gables and roofs from buildings, flung rafters and entire advertising kiosks through the air, tore trees from the ground, and drove human beings before it like living torches.
- Exterior features of the house are a steeply pitched roof, large gables and architectural details such as the ornamental dripstones above the mullion windows.
- The house, with its steeply pitched red-tiled roof, precipitous gables and tall tapering chimneys, is L-shaped with a well-head in the angle, its conical top resembling a Welsh wizard's hat.
- The landscape which preoccupies me happens to be in its nature fairly geometric, like the triangular gable of a roof, the crossed bars of a gate or the circular shape of an oil drum head on.
- James had designed and built the house with an extended gable in the roof.
- The roof is an inverted gable, a reference to all the gabled houses in the neighborhood.
- They set up a small building with wooden gables on its roof.
- From outside, it seems to be unnecessarily picturesque to give the mass the planners had required to balance that of the bed factory, a brick gable fronting a pitched roof covered in industrial corrugated cladding.
- As it stood there, lifting its proud roofs and gables to the sky, it might have been its own funeral monument.
- 1.1 A wall topped with a gable.三角墙；山墙
- The mural on the gable end of the recently painted community centre is, ‘always a pleasant surprise,’ said the adjudicators.
- It is a real shame even to have lost the Victorian structure, but some of the frontage and the gable end are even older.
- But in Byrom Street, Blackburn town centre, near to the old St Wilfrid's school building, the gable end of a derelict church was blown down.
- The gable end of a newly-built block of flats came tumbling down in Topping Street, off Walmersley Road, Bury, and landed on a Mercedes car, smashing its windows.
- Initially I shall think small, accepting private commissions on the basis of work exhibited on the gable end of the shop.
- A building was also damaged near Castlecroddick when the gable end of a large garage collapsed during the gales.
- They didn't realise there was any problem with putting it on the gable end and her husband had only finished it the day before the planning officer called.
- She had told the court the repeated football playing by neighbourhood children and thudding of a ball on the gable end wall of their home in nearby Primrose Grove, had driven her and her husband to the end of their tether.
- Barmaid Kathryn, 22, said: ‘They only came to render the wall and repair the gable end.’
- But the task proved impossible because the gable end of the building is used as an anchor point for a cable owned by the electricity company.
- They have all these fancy windows which are pointing out towards a blank lane while the building's side, which is nothing more than a blank gable end, points at one of the finest views in Europe.
- Daubing a slogan on a wall is far cheaper than covering a gable end, and quicker.
- It was a lovely evening, we watched hundreds of masonry bees excavating the soft sandstone of a gable end, chortled at a dollop of doggerel on the subject of dog dirt and strode off down a dead-end lane.
- Designer Tony Cooper turned a wall at the gable end into a built-in unit that meets all the requirements.
- A fireball then burst from the gable end of the second property and damaged a third.
- Three hours after industrial action was confirmed, blue watch was called to the village of Thorner, where a car carrying five young people had careered off the road, smashed through a garden wall and into the gable end of a house.
- Part of the gable end of the headquarters of York & County Press in Walmgate, York, has been removed to allow a new four-tonne automatic inserter to be moved into place.
- Part of Selby town centre was cordoned off when the gable end of a shop was struck by lightning, leaving a chimney stack poised precariously over a busy shopping street.
- Worthy of note too was the altar arrangements beneath the gable end of what was once the Parish Church of Monasterevin.
- But he had the perseverance to try to perfect the skills of the game and this he did hitting a ball off the gable end of his Tinnahinch home and playing hurling in the yard between the family home and that of his uncle's house.
- 1.2 A gable-shaped canopy over a window or door.（窗或门上方的）三角形顶篷
- I shivered as the rain began to soak me through; I quickly stepped back under the protection of the small gable over the door.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from Old Norse gafl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaffel and German Gabel ‘fork’ (the point of the gable originally being the fork of two crossed timbers supporting the end of the rooftree).