Use for: residential architecture, residential structure, domestic architecture, residential buildings, residential facilities, domestic facilities, residential housing

• Architecture or other accommodations produced for or adapted to provide shelter and security for the basic physical functions of life for an individual, family, or clan and their dependents, human and animal. Among the functions provided for are a place to sleep, prepare food, eat, and sometimes to work, usually having a door, window, or other source of light and with protection from the weather.

Use for: institutional building, buildings, institutional

• Built works used by, or in support of, institutions.

• Buildings that house schools providing the first stage of compulsory education, generally extending from grade 1 through grades 6 or 8 and teaching the rudiments of learning; may house a kindergarten.

Use for: transportation complex , complexes, transportation

• Buildings or complexes providing transportation facilities or otherwise serving transportation needs.

Use for: air transportation complex, complexes, air transportation

• Complexes containing facilities to accommodate people, functions, and vehicles having to do with air transportation.

• Typically refers to large tracts of open, level land upon which runways, hangars, terminals, and other buildings have been constructed to allow for the takeoffs, landings, loading and unloading, and maintenance of aircraft. For smaller areas that have a runway but no or few additional facilities, see

Use for: railroad trains, railway trains , trains, railroad, trains, railway

• Two or more rail transit vehicles physically connected and operated as a unit.

• Vehicles adapted to the rails of railroads and used to carry passengers, freight, or mail or used for track and roadbed maintenance.

• Guideway vehicles that specifically operate on rails.

• Transit systems consisting of roads laid with rails forming tracks on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.

Use for: rail transit system, fixed-guideway transit, rail transit, systems, rail transit , transit, fixed-guideway, transit, rail , transit systems, rail, railway systems, railway system, systems, railway

Use for: light-rail, light-rail transit systems

• Designates rail systems operating on private but not necessarily exclusive right of way, at street level or grade separated, generally on electric power, at medium speeds (10-30 miles per hour), and generally making frequent stops at low platforms or directly at grade-level stations.

Use for: Railroads, Cable

• Light rail transit in which railroad-type vehicles are pulled by a moving continuous cable or belt, usually located beneath the railway.

• Structures of any kind that serve the transportation and transport of goods and passengers.

Use for: equipment, image-making

• Equipment specifically used in the process of making images.

Use for: history museum (building)

• Buildings for any of a wide variety of museums where collections are amassed and typically presented to give a chronological perspective of the history of a city, town, region, group of people, etc.

• Refers to various heavier than air aircraft characterized by large-diameter, powered, horizontally rotating wings or blades that can lift the craft vertically and sustain their position in the air.

Use for: sunflowers (genus), sunflower (genus)

• Genus of flowering plant native primarily to North and South America. The common sunflower is an annual herb with a rough hairy stem 1–4.5 metres (3–15 feet) high, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves 7.5–30 cm (3–12 inches) long, and heads of flowers 7.5–15 cm wide in wild specimens and often 30 cm or more in cultivated types. The disk flowers are brown, yellow, or purple; the ray flowers are yellow. The oval hairy leaves are arranged in spirals. The sunflower plant is valuable from

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.

• The Objects facet encompasses discrete tangible or visual things that are for the most part produced by human endeavor or otherwise fabricated or given form by human activity. Included are built works, images, written documents, and other works, having utilitarian or purely aesthetic purpose. Natural landscapes are included in this facet too.

• The Components hierarchy contains terms for the constituent parts of objects, including structures, images, and texts. In those instances where a term refers to an element that may sometimes be a component and sometimes stand alone, it is placed with a preferred parent in the most suitable hierarchy. For example,

Use for: office (work space)

• Collective term referring to interior areas that are enclosed by walls or defined by other divisions. Always used in the plural. Collective term referring to interior areas that are enclosed by walls or defined by other divisions. Always used in the plural.

• The Components hierarchy contains terms for the constituent parts of objects, including structures, images, and texts. In those instances where a term refers to an element that may sometimes be a component and sometimes stand alone, it is placed with a preferred parent in the most suitable hierarchy. For example,

• Collective term referring to interior areas that are enclosed by walls or defined by other divisions. Always used in the plural.

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: 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: 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.

• 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.

• 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.,

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.

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: 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: office building, buildings, office

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

• Single structures in the built environment.

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

Use for: acrobat

• Those trained in or practicing acrobatics.

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.