What is "reinforced"

Usage examples of "reinforced".

Venerable Bede was new-old: reinforced concrete buildings with precast columns, architraves, plinths, caryatids, and whatnot glued on the outside to simulate age.

He reinforced the garrisons at Carlisle and Berwick and appointed Henry Percy as commander in the west with Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, in the east.

Narni, Spoleto, and Perusia, were reinforced, and the seven camps of the besiegers were gradually encompassed with the calamities of a siege.

The latter, enormous work was still a drawing, but the austerity of the bistre monochrome seemed fitting for the devotional austerity of the mood and somehow reinforced the enormous compositional pull of the work towards its patriotic center, where light played on the head of Sylvain Bailly commanding the oath.

David the injection Bowser had promised, but a whiff of gas instead, which had reinforced the overall dental impression.

The controversy over gene-modified food reached its peak in the year 2010, when a breakthrough in the analysis of the functional capabilities of the ribosome made it possible for genetic engineers to construct an artificial gene to allow cows to grow bones reinforced with buckytube fibers.

He bad also wanted, very much, to see Karen Sloan, a desire now reinforced by her charm and re134 markable beauty.

Lot 13, when a second glance at the portrait had reinforced the feeling that under the layers of grime and overpaint lay buried treasure.

At the end the performative nature of the play is reinforced by the duality of Face as actor and the actor as Face.

MP-7 was, in fact, constructed using a polyamide material reinforced with carbon fiber.

The yellow was the natural color of Kapton, a puncture-resistant polyimide, reinforced with invisible strands of high-strength carbon superfiber.

Reinforced concrete frames, Marya remembered, and prestressed panels for the walls, exterior cladding in a stone and brick checkerboard that matched the older part of the chateau without trying to imitate it.

Dead Sea, they found the sulphur extraction plant, a town-sized site encompassing hundreds of square miles of piping, chemical tanks, mineral silos, transport vehicles, all visible, and a nuclear reactor with a fissionable center under twenty feet of prestressed, reinforced concrete, buried invisibly deep beneath the desert sand.

There was a curious aftersound, a resonating, deep-toned brong, a vibration of the prestressed and reinforced structure overhead.

The propane truck came equipped with a four-inch diameter wire reinforced 150-foot-long hose, whose fittings he had modified to handle H the hydrogen gas.