steel frame

collocation in English

meaningsofsteelandframe

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steel
noun[U]
uk
/stiːl/us
/stiːl/
a strong metal that is a mixture of iron and carbon, used for making things that need a strong structure, especially vehicles ...
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frame
noun[C]
uk
/freɪm/us
/freɪm/
a border that surrounds and supports a picture, door, ...
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(Definition ofsteelandframefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsteel frame

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Asteelframeis constructed to form the structure of the house with mini-piles providing intermediate support.
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Thesteelframeis concealed in the fabric of the double-house.
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Thesteelframeon the end of terrace door is revealed on the end elevation. 14.
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The large spans of thesteelframemean that the still incomplete building is at present an empty shed.
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The shell could conceal asteelframeand up-to-date heating and lighting.
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And particularly in the way that thesteelframewas effectively secreted within the fabric of the building.
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It is asteelframe.
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Walls were of imitation brick - thin slips glued on in the factory - and the mysteriously long-lived double mansard roof-edge was also factory-tiled on asteelframe.
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For the early modernists, this question was redefined when the rise of thesteelframeand then reinforced concrete dissolved the traditional relationship between structural solid and void.
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It has indicated that with modern design techniques the cost of a structuralsteelframecan approach that of other forms of construction.
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They are thesteelframeof the whole structure.
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There is not much difference between asteelframeand a cage.
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We hear a lot about thesteelframe, and we are told that we are undermining it.
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This is a four-apartment house of the double storey cottage type, constructed with asteelframeand concrete slabs.
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If spectacles are supplied with the iron orsteelframe, they are extremely unpopular.
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One of these types consists of a lightsteelframewith asbestos cement for the external walls.
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