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ter⋅race

  [ter-uhs] noun, verb, -raced, -rac⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, esp. one of a series of levels rising one above another.
2. the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc.
3. a nearly level strip of land with a more or less abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a lake, or a river.
4. the flat roof of a house.
5. an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoor living area; deck.
6. an open platform, as projecting from the outside wall of an apartment; a large balcony.
7. a row of houses on or near the top of a slope.
8. a residential street following the top of a slope.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
9. to form into or furnish with a terrace or terraces.
Origin:
1505–15; earlier terrasse < MF < OPr terrassa < VL *terrācea, fem. of *terrāceus. See terra, -aceous

Related forms:
ter⋅race⋅less, adjective
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park·ing   (pär'kĭng)   
n.  

  1. The act or practice of temporarily leaving a vehicle or maneuvering a vehicle into a certain location.

  2. Space in which to park vehicles or a vehicle: ample parking behind the building.

  3. Upper Midwest & Western U.S. The grass strip, often planted with shade trees, between a sidewalk and a street. Also called regionally boulevard, boulevard strip, grassplot, neutral ground, parking strip, parkway, terrace, tree belt, tree lawn.

  4. Slang Kissing or caressing in a vehicle stopped in a secluded spot.

To the majority of Americans, the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street is called simply the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street. However, in some parts of the country, it has acquired specific names. In the Midwest and West, it is often called the parking or parkway, and in Washington State it is the parking strip, according to the survey conducted by the Dictionary of American Regional English. In the Upper Midwest, it is also known as the boulevard or boulevard strip; around the Great Lakes and in the Midwest, it is sometimes a terrace; around the Great Lakes and in especially northeastern Ohio, it is also called a tree lawn. In Massachusetts it is a tree belt; in the Atlantic states, sometimes a grassplot; and in Louisiana and Mississippi, neutral ground. Some of these words are also used for the grassy strip in the middle of a street or highway. See Note at neutral ground.
ter·race   (těr'ĭs)   
n.  

    1. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.

    2. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.

    3. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.

    4. A section of row houses.

    5. Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.

  2. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.

  3. A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.

  4. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.

    1. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.

    2. A section of row houses.

    3. Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.

  6. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.

  7. Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking. See Regional Note at parking.

tr.v.   ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es

  1. To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.

  2. To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.


[French, from Old French, from Old Provençal terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrācea, feminine of *terrāceus, earthen, from Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

terrace 
1515, "gallery, portico, balcony," later "flat, raised place for walking" (1575), from M.Fr. terrace, from O.Fr. terrasse "platform (built on or supported by a mound of earth)," from V.L. *terracea, fem. of *terraceus "earthen, earthy," from L. terra "earth, land" (see terrain). As a natural formation in geology, attested from 1674.
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Medical Dictionary

terrace ter·race (těr'ĭs)
v. ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
To suture in several rows, as when closing a wound through a considerable thickness of tissue.

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