adobe
sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
a yellow silt or clay, deposited by rivers, used to make bricks.
a building constructed of adobe.
a dark, heavy soil, containing clay.
Origin of adobe
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How to use adobe in a sentence
Bin Laden stood in an adobe walled bedroom, his back to the door.
Representatives for adobe did not respond to requests to comment.
Adobe’s ‘Creative Cloud’ Goes Offline—and Takes a Million Designers With It | Kyle Chayka | May 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd how much are we supposed to trust a single company—adobe—that has so much control over our creative class?
Adobe’s ‘Creative Cloud’ Goes Offline—and Takes a Million Designers With It | Kyle Chayka | May 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTadobe claims that their cloud apps will work offline as well.
Adobe’s ‘Creative Cloud’ Goes Offline—and Takes a Million Designers With It | Kyle Chayka | May 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOther non-design services, like adobe Business Catalyst, which hosts email fundraising campaigns and e-commerce, also went down.
Adobe’s ‘Creative Cloud’ Goes Offline—and Takes a Million Designers With It | Kyle Chayka | May 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He saw nothing of the red car, and presently the square walls and flat roof of an adobe house broke on his vision.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsThere was an adobe house on the flat, a corral, and other evidences of a rather extensive ranch.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsThe little adobe at the desert well leaped at them and fell away behind with the swiftness of thought.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run | Stanley R. MatthewsGila Bend had exasperated him because it was not the town it called itself, but a huddle of adobe huts.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerThe ceilings of all the rooms were supported by unhewn beams, five or six inches thick, deeply inserted into the adobe walls.
Overland | John William De Forest
British Dictionary definitions for adobe
/ (əˈdəʊbɪ) /
a sun-dried brick used for building
(as modifier): an adobe house
a building constructed of such bricks
the clayey material from which such bricks are made
Origin of adobe
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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