different between building vs triplex

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.d??/
• Rhymes: -?ld??
• Hyphenation: build?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English bildyng, buildyng, buyldyng, byldyng, bulding, beldyng, equivalent to build +? -ing.

Noun

building (countable and uncountable, plural buildings)

1. (uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.

   Synonym: construction

2. (countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

   Synonyms: edifice; see also Thesaurus:building

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• building on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

See build

Verb

building

1. present participle of build

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English building.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bil.di?/

Noun

building m (plural buildings)

1. tower, skyscraper (tall building)

   Synonyms: gratte-ciel, tour

English

Etymology

From Latin triplex.

Pronunciation

Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

1. Having three parts; triple or threefold.
2. (architecture) Having three floors or other divisions.

Derived terms

• triplexity
• Triplexity (name of a boardgame)
• Triplexity (virtual band consisting of 3 members, their name is said to be a portmanteau of triplex and complexity)
• triplicity

Noun

triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

1. A building with three apartments or divisions
2. (juggling) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
3. (music, uncountable) Triple time.

Verb

triplex (third-person singular simple present triplexes, present participle triplexing, simple past and past participle triplexed)

1. (transitive) To make triplex.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin triplex. In the sense “three-veneer plywood” likely a shortening of triplexhout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri.pl?ks/
• Hyphenation: tri?plex

Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

1. threefold

Inflection

Noun

triplex n (uncountable)

1. plywood consisting of three veneers

Coordinate terms

• multiplex

Latin

Etymology

From tr?s (“three”) + plic? (“fold together”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pleks/, [?t???p???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pleks/, [?t??i?pl?ks]

Adjective

triplex (genitive triplicis, adverb tripliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. triple, threefold

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Derived terms

• triplic?s
• triplicit?s

Related terms

• tr?s

Descendants

• English: triplex, Triplex
• French: triplex
• German: Triplex-, Triplex
• Italian: triplice
• Sicilian: trìprici

References

• triplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• triplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French triplex.

Noun

triplex n (uncountable)

1. triplex

Declension