Crossword clues for latticework
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lattice \Lat"tice\, n. [OE. latis, F. lattis lathwork, fr. latte lath. See Latten, 1st Lath.]
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Any work of wood, metal, plastic, or other solid material, made by crossing a series of parallel laths, or thin strips, with another series at a diagonal angle, and forming a network with openings between the strips; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice.
--Judg. v. 28. (Her.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.
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(Crystallography) The arrangement of atoms or molecules in a crystal, represented as a repeating arrangement of points in space, each point representing the location of an atom or molecule; called also crystal lattice and space lattice.
Lattice bridge, a bridge supported by lattice girders, or latticework trusses.
Lattice girder (Arch.), a girder of which the wed consists of diagonal pieces crossing each other in the manner of latticework.
Lattice plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar ( Ouvirandra fenestralis), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is Ouvirandra Berneriana. The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. A lattice or latticelike structure; interlace laths or strips. n. A lattice or latticelike structure; interlace laths or strips.
WordNet
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ Latticework is an openwork framework consisting of a criss-crossed pattern of strips of building material, typically wood or metal. The design is created by crossing the strips to form a network. Latticework can be purely ornamental, or can be used as a truss structure such as a lattice girder bridge.
In India, the house of a rich or noble person may be built with a baramdah or verandah surrounding every level leading to the living area. The upper floors often have balconies overlooking the street that are shielded by jalis (latticed screens) carved in stone latticework that keeps the area cool and gives privacy.
Usage examples of "latticework".
After a complicated moment, Carcer was lying on the iron latticework, one arm under him, the other outflung and being banged heavily on the metal by Vimes.
Shears the gardener is patrolling the faraway fences, checking that his Hedera helix is fanning out nicely against the latticework, for there have been too many nosy folk peering at the house lately.
Light from the moon shone through the latticework and spilled lacelike shadows over the bed and her bare skin.
The branch was a twenty-centimeter latticework of inter grown tendrils, leapfrogging kilometers across the forest.
The fine latticework on the round windows and the carved openwork over the doorways were coated with grime.
Latticeworks of girders and metal tubing adorned its sides in irregular and untidy clusters, in some places extending fully from floor to roof, supporting a confusion of catwalks, ladders, platforms, ramps, rigs, and winches wreathed intermittently in bewildering tangles of hydraulic and pneumatic feed tubes, ventilator pipes and electrical supply lines.
The lower-class courtesans sat behind the wooden latticework facades of their brothels.
Cross Road with the blackened Victorian terraces hemmed in its valley, the intricate latticework of gasometers behind the station and the smell of hay in the passage beside the Royal Veterinary College.
There was bass grilling over a latticework of black willow splints, and a stew of mussels, dried beans, and wild onions, which she ate with forced enthusiasm.
Mama writes in tiny letters when she does her casc-notes, and when Da writes to Scotland be writes on both sides of the page, and then he turns it sideways and writes across the lines, so it looks like latticework.
Now it was a tangle of riotous growth, a jungle where plants and autotrophs from myriad worlds had broken out of their assigned places, curling round the disap pearing latticework, intermingling in a bedlam of anar chic biogenesis.
Now it was a tangle of riotous growth, a jungle where plants and autotrophs from myriad worlds had broken out of their assigned places, curling round the disappearing latticework, intermingling in a bedlam of anarchic biogenesis.
He could imagine the beautiful latticework of the gamma titanium aluminum, patterned in a tapestry of nodoids and catenoids like hooks and eyes, vibrating madly with the heat.
They nestled into crannies in the complex clay latticework, leaving a central passage through which fresh material entered from the outside.
There was a crystal latticework of energy connecting this crypt with the house in Ann Arbor—.