Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word EAVES

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Definitions of EAVES

1. (architectural element) The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
2. (by extension) Something that extends over or projects beyond.
3. plural of eave.
4. A surname.
5. A hamlet in Woodplumpton city of, Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4937).

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Examples of Using EAVES in a Sentence

• Known hiding places were under the eaves of the Continental Hotel (now the Continental Tavern), in bins of warehouses on the Delaware Canal (completed in 1862), and at the General Store (now Worthington Insurance).
• Charles Robert Watts was born at University College Hospital in Bloomsbury, London, to Charles Richard Watts, a lorry driver for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and wife Lillian Charlotte (née Eaves), who had been a factory worker.
• A ranch-style house or rambler is one-story, low to the ground, with a low-pitched roof, usually rectangular, L- or U-shaped with deep overhanging eaves.
• The district displays a uniformity of style in its Italianate style brick facades with ornate brackets and overhanging eaves.
• The district displays a uniformity of style in its Italianate style brick facades with ornate brackets and overhanging eaves.
• Eaves was later convicted by a federal jury of extortion in 1988 after selling his vote on two rezonings.
• A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia.
• Villages in the borough include Barrow upon Soar, Birstall, Hathern, Mountsorrel, Quorn, Rothley, Sileby and Woodhouse Eaves.
• In this sense, while most cornices are also eaves (overhanging the sides of the building), not all eaves are usually considered cornices.
• The verb eavesdrop is a back-formation from the noun eavesdropper ("a person who eavesdrops"), which was formed from the related noun eavesdrop ("the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls").
• The park lies between the villages of Newtown Linford, Anstey, Cropston, Woodhouse Eaves and Swithland.
• Richardson incorporated Japanese concepts "in both sihouette and spatial concept", including the karahafu ("excellent gable", but generally poorly translated as "Chinese gable" despite its Japanese origin), the eyelid dormer, and the wide hip roof with extended eaves, all shown by Morse.
• Distinctive features of American Queen Anne architecture may include an asymmetrical façade; dominant front-facing gable, often cantilevered beyond the plane of the wall below; overhanging eaves; round, square, or polygonal tower(s); shaped and Dutch gables; a porch covering part or all of the front façade, including the primary entrance area; a second-story porch or balconies; pedimented porches; differing wall textures, such as patterned wood shingles shaped into varying designs, including resembling fish scales, terra cotta tiles, relief panels, or wooden shingles over brickwork, etc.
• From underneath the eaves made by my fingers and palm, with which I was shielding myself from the world of the words, the speech came out whole, clear, like sieved silver.
• The nest is a very flimsy platform of twigs built in a low bush and sometimes in crevices or under the eaves of houses.
• The building's steeply pitched mansard roof, open verandas, long and narrow and frequently paired windows, and bracketed eaves give this house an irreplaceable design.
• Burnley Rural District (parishes of Briercliffe, Cliviger, Dunnockshaw, Habergham Eaves, Hapton, Ightenhill, North Town, Simonstone and Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood only, rest split between Pendle, Ribble Valley and Hyndburn).
• John Eaves created the designs for the stations, while Mike and Denise Okuda, Jim Van Over and Anthony Fredrickson created the mechanical and detailed elements.
• To the right is Kentish bracing; to the centre flying braces across the centre first floor and forming the lower part of the roof coved eaves.
• It also notes its uniqueness in railway architecture, noting architectural features including "the pedimented entrance porch, the patterned brickwork, the tiled frieze below the eaves cornice, the bluestone columns at the barriers, the tessellated paving to the entrance lobby, the round brick arches and the additional red brick banding at the entry".

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