Use for: library (building), ibrary architecture, bibliothecae (buildings), library buildings

• Buildings set apart to contain books for reading, study, or reference, typically with shelves containing books and tables and seating for users of the library.

Use for: academic library (building), libraries, academic (buildings)

• Buildings housing libraries that serve an academic institution.

Use for: public library (building), libraries, public (buildings)

• Buildings or spaces housing collections of books that are available to the public and typically maintained by public funds, as distinguished from libraries available only to a certain group or individual.

Use for: special library (building), libraries, special (buildings)

• Buildings housing privately owned libraries established to meet the needs of the members or staff of the owning institution.

Use for: research library (building) , libraries, research (buildings)

• Buildings or spaces housing libraries consisting of specialized documents, and providing facilities for undertaking exhaustive investigation and research.

• The Styles and Periods hierarchy contains the names of art and architecture styles, historical periods, art movements, nationalities, and cultures (e.g.,

• The Processes and Techniques hierarchy contains terms for actions and methods performed physically on or with materials and objects, and for processes occurring in materials and objects. Included are types of process or technique pertaining to the production and handling of objects or images (e.g.,

• Techniques where images or designs are transferred from one material to another.

Use for: traced

• Copying from an original by drawing over it onto a transparent or translucent piece of paper, cloth, or other material.

• People who practice the performing arts, such as such as singers, actors, dancers, acrobats, magicians, circus performers, comedians, etc. For persons who make performance art, considered a fine art and often seen in a museum, see

Use for: commerce, commercial (business functions)

• Broad area of commercial or mercantile activity involving the exchange of commodities, services, or financial resources.

• Collecting data, usually in monetary terms, about economic activity, processing those data, and reporting them for the use of interested decision-makers.

Use for: acrobat

• Those trained in or practicing acrobatics.

• The Single Built Works hierarchy contains terms for freestanding buildings and other structures commonly considered individual built works or architectural types (e.g.,

• Single structures in the built environment.

Use for: office building, buildings, office

• Buildings constructed or used primarily for offices, which are spaces where business, administrative, or professional activities are conducted.

Use for: century, twentieth (dates CE), 20th century (dates CE) , 20th-century (dates CE), 1900s

• Century in the proleptic Gregorian calendar including the years 1900 to 1999 (or 1901 to 2000).

Use for: high-rise building, buildings, high-rise, buildings, high rise, buildings, highrise, high rise buildings, highrise buildings, high-risers, high-rises, highrises, high rises

• Buildings over nine or ten stories and served by elevators, especially when such buildings stand out in a skyline.

Use for: multistory building, buildings, multistory, multi-storey buildings, buildings, multi-storey, buildings, multistoreyed, buildings, multi-storied, multistorey buildings, multi-storied buildings

• Buildings having multiple floors, usually reserved for buildings having more than two floors and that are not single family dwellings.

Use for: skyscraper, blocks, tower, buildings, high, buildings, tall, high buildings, tall buildings, tower blocks

• Exceptionally tall buildings of skeletal frame construction.

Use for: condominium (built work), condos

• Buildings or complexes of buildings in which each unit is individually owned and ownership of common areas and facilities is shared.

• The Built Environment hierarchy includes terms for the built and natural environment, covering constructed works and natural landscapes, forming a continuum from the largest natural landscapes and settled areas to the smallest of individual built works. Relation to other hierarchies: The constituent parts of constructed works, such as doors and walls, that extend the continuum at even smaller scale, are found in the Components hierarchy. Concepts may have multiple parents; therefore, in those instances where a concept may logically appear at more than one level of the continuum (e.g.,

• The Built Complexes and Districts hierarchy contains terms for coherent groupings of built works and for parts of settlements. Complexes are defined as aggregations of buildings, other structures, and open spaces, often multifunctional and more extensive, and usually shaped over a longer period of time by more participants than single built works. Districts are defined as delineated or perceived components of settlements that are more extensive and less architectonic than built complexes. These areas are likely to be defined by socio-economic characteristics or topographic features, by a sameness of the built works they encompass, or by administratively created boundaries. Relation to other hierarchies: Terms for public transit systems (e.g.,

• Aggregations of buildings, other structures, and/or open spaces, often multifunctional, and more extensive than single built works, usually shaped over a longer period of time by more participants.

Use for: educational institution, institutions, educational

• Formally structured organizations, establishments, or associations primarily involved with education, which is the imparting of knowledge, attitudes, skills, or socially valued qualities of character or behavior.

Use for: organization (group), organisations (groups)

• Groups of people organized for a purpose, typically characterized by a more or less constant membership, a body of officers or functionaries, and a set of regulations governing their activities and conduct.

Use for: institution (organization)

• Formally structured organizations, establishments, or associations created for the promotion of a specific benevolent public or private objective, usually a religious, charitable, or educational objective, such as a church, school, college, hospital, asylum, reformatory, mission, or the like.

Use for: building division, divisions, building

• Collocates descriptors for elements developed originally or primarily as portions of architecture, often adapted to other habitable spaces, such as in large vehicles, and often borrowed or imitated for structural or decorative use on other objects.