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mezzanine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mezzanine \Mez"za*nine\, n. [F. mezzanine, It. mezzanino, fr. mezzano middle, fr. mezzo middle, half. See Mezzo.]
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(Arch.)
Same as Entresol.
A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
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mezzanine floor. (Theat.) A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.
The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, "a low story between two tall ones in a building," from French mezzanine (17c.), from Italian mezzanino, from mezzano "middle," from Latin medianus "of the middle," from medius (see medial (adj.)). Sense of "lowest balcony in a theater" first recorded 1927.
Wiktionary
a. (context engineering English) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function. n. 1 A balcony in an auditorium. 2 A secondary floor, in between the main floors of a building. 3 Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level. 4 (cx theatre English) A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.
WordNet
n. first or lowest balcony [syn: first balcony]
intermediate floor just above the ground floor [syn: mezzanine floor]
Wikipedia
A mezzanine (or in French, an entresol) is an intermediate floor, similar to a balcony, in a building whose center is open to the double-height ceilinged floor below. Mezzanines may serve a wide variety of functions. Industrial mezzanines, such as those used in warehouses, are temporary or semi-permanent structures.
Mezzanine is the third studio album by English trip hop group Massive Attack, released on 20 April 1998 by Virgin Records. It was the first album to be produced by Neil Davidge, along with the group. The entire album was provided on their website for legal download many months before the physical release was announced, one of the first major uses of the MP3 format by a commercial organisation.
Mezzanine topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, becoming the band's most commercially successful album to date. It saw the band expanding their trip hop sound to electronica stylings, with diverse influences from rock, hip hop and dub genres.
A mezzanine is an intermediate floor between main floors of a building.
Mezzanine may also refer to:
- Mezzanine (album), a 1998 album by Massive Attack
- The Mezzanine, a 1988 novel by Nicholson Baker
- Mezzanine capital, a form of unsecured company financing; also "mezzanine fund": a fund combining bonds or debt-like instruments with stocks or equity
- Mezzanine board, or daughterboard, an extension of a motherboard
- Advanced Mezzanine Card, a specification of printed circuit boards
- PCI Mezzanine Card, a specification of printed circuit boards with a PCI bus
- Mezzanine assets, digital assets created in an intermediate step, especially in the video and broadcast industry
- Mezzanine, in technology, can refer to a thin sheet of plastic insulating different parts of circuitry from each other in cramped environments, such as laptop interiors
- Mezzanine (CMS), a content management system
Mezzanine is a Content Management System written in Python using the Django framework.
The web site for Mezzanine is http://mezzanine.jupo.org/
Usage examples of "mezzanine".
Finishing his second call, Cranston entered an elevator and rode up to the mezzanine floor.
On the balcony of the mezzanine, Cranston waited, ready to play his part when the two strugglers came into sight on the floor below.
Just below the mezzanine wounded crooks had rallied, ready to charge out into the lobby.
He was simply a blur of blackness as he vaulted the mezzanine rail and came plunging down, full tilt, into the clustered men below!
They circled the space, and by leaning out from his rough mezzanine slab, Daeman could see more of these cross-niches below him, indented as if burned into the blue-ice.
From the mezzanine, a wrought-iron staircase spiraled down to the main floor of the room and up through the ceiling to what presumably was a second story.
Harman noticed that the walls around the base of the dome up to a height of forty feet or so, where the first mezzanine began, were completely covered with carved designs of flowers, vines, elaborate and impossible plants, all brightened by the presence of inlaid jewels.
Concourse and strolled about for a time, window shopping on the commercial mezzanine above the main floor.
Pierce lunged into the elevator, pressed the button for the mezzanine floor, and turned to study his unconscious traveling companions.
Then there were gunshots coming from the other side of the terminal and from the overhanging mezzanine, and the Oriental gunmen were hit.
All right, please turn your mind to the shots that came from the mezzanine and blew away the Japanese hitmen.
Mel walked onto the executive mezzanine which ran the length of the main terminal building.
Few among the eighty thousand or so air travelers who thronged the terminal daily ever glanced up at the executive mezzanine, and fewer still were aware of Mel tonight, high above them, looking down.
He went out from his office onto the executive mezzanine, looking down on the continued bustling activity of the main terminal concourse.
Still amused, Mel turned away from the mezzanine rail and headed for the staff elevator.