Denoting a house or other structure having a wooden frame.
木构架的，木结构的（尤指采用橡木或榆木）
a timber-framed manor house
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You will probably be deciding between a brick and block or timber-frame construction.
ELK will employ 250 people at its factory that will produce timber-frame homes.
This will mean there will be more timber-frame houses.
The timber-frame cabin that they were building had been treated with one of the most popular wood preservatives in the United States, and had infected the couple.
More than 100 jobs will be created in Macroom, Co Cork, with the construction of a manufacturing facility by timber-frame housing group Cygnum.
It is the biggest timber-frame building company in Europe.
So for nine months the couple lived on site in their caravan while the first of the timber-frame houses was built.
The expanse of glass is a fresh, cool counterpoint to the warm timber-frame interior and tightly connects indoors and outdoors.
This is due in part to people's desire to adapt houses to the intemperate climate and to Scotland's historic links with Scandinavia - home of the timber-frame house favoured by self-builders.
Inside the shop is the two-storey timber-frame house that is completely transformed and is where customers will shop for all they could possibly want for Halloween.
Their timber-frame house is raised off the ground on stilts set into a concrete base.
MacDonald attributes the increasing popularity of timber-frame housing in Ireland to the fact that 60 per cent of the house can be pre-fabricated.
If you see a timber-frame home without the expensive cladding exterior, it's sort of a blue plastic-wrapped timber frame that holds the house inside.
Working in the timber industry during the past eight years had brought me closer to the concept of timber-frame housing.
The couple decided on a timber-frame construction with natural slate roof because of Ryan's background in carpentry and because they felt that it was more sustainable.
It's not unusual to see timber-frame houses with vast open areas stretching from one exterior wall to another and reaching upward two or three stories to a vaulted roof.
There are timber-frame houses that are still crafted in the timeless way by woodworking traditionalists using hand tools and methods that have changed little over the centuries.
Most other timber-frame systems here use traditional masonry on top of the structural frame of the building.
Century Homes, one of Ireland's leading suppliers of timber-frame houses, now provides an American ranch house option for buyers.
His own home, a timber-frame family house that looks rooted in its site, is a glowing testimonial to his methods.
noun
mass noun
Pre-prepared sections of wood used for building a house.
木支架
the use of timber-frame in house-building quadrupled in the 1970s
Example sentencesExamples
This leaves us with timber-frame, Bell's preferred method.
The lower floor, which contains all the main living areas, is load-bearing block clad with Tyrone brick, while upstairs is timber-frame.
Derivatives
timber-framed
adjectiveˈtɪmbəfreɪmd
After carrying out research and development work last year, the business is starting to take off with the timber-framed lodges now based at several sites locally, and hopes are high for further orders.
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One of the timber-framed buildings was huge, at least 50 metres long and 12 metres wide.
Some of the materials used in the timber-framed building will be recycled, including 300 millimetres of newspaper insulation in the walls.
The majority of these houses are timber-framed.
The timber-framed two-storey building has a reclaimed slate roof, double-glazed windows and heavily insulated floors and ceiling.
timber-framer
noun
timber-framing
noun
The ground floor of this court was built of stone, while the upper levels, corresponding to the principal apartments on the first floor, were of timber-framing designed to hold the stucco reliefs.
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Little Hall (open, as the headquarters of the Suffolk Preservation Society), which has been stripped to reveal a Tudor shop front, hints at the likely quality of the hidden timber-framing.