Meaning

Built by a carpenter..

Definitions by Sense

1. Built by a carpenter.
2. Containing or involving right angles and vertical and horizontal edges.
3. Created or built with a formal structure.
4. simple past and past participle of carpenter

Example Sentences

Houses are run up from wood, metal, and cardboard debris, although some of the better, carpentered homes scarcely differ from the chattel houses of the rent yards (Figure 7).

Carpentered cupboards were installed above, while over a dozen drawers of varying size were built into the space beneath the counter, creating a sense that counter and drawers were one continuous piece of wood.

As vestiges of feudal superstition, ancestral tablets were not considered objects for a public audience during the Maoist era and were hidden from view in carpentered cabinets.

These ornately carved and carpentered cabinets at the ancestral altar were often complemented with offerings of liquor, flowers, and incense in delicate glass vases.

They argued that this illusion would only be perceived by those with experience of a carpentered environment, which contains numerous rectangles, straight lines, and regular corners.

People who live in 'more carpentered' environments would be more susceptible.

Whether in "natural" scenes or scenes in which there are more “carpentered” angles due to human artifacts, the result is the same: the frequency of occurrence of projected angles is greater at the two ends of the angular range and least in the middle—that is around 90 degrees.

Towards the Last Spike is more carpentered in form than the earlier narratives.

Word Forms

• more carpentered
• most carpentered

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When Should You Use Carpentered?

Use carpentered when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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