1(especially of a wall) supporting much of the weight of the overlying parts of a building or other structure.
a load-bearing wall
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The Hippodrome structure consists of load-bearing exterior brick masonry walls with interior steel columns and beams.
The exterior of the Oklahoma City Federal Building is a load-bearing wall that enables forces to arch over any damaged portions while the wall resists lateral and gravity loads.
And just as importantly to masonry contractors, designers will be specifying more of their load-bearing walls as grouted and reinforced.
Recycled-plastic lumber is not strong enough to use for structural members, such as load-bearing walls, deck frames or floor joists, so you'll need to use traditional wood for those areas.
The building structure consists of precast coreslab floors and roof, supported on load-bearing masonry walls or steel frame.
1.1Relating to the carrying of a load.
the road's load-bearing capacity
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Her eyes widen, then glaze over and then, in what I can only describe as a calm and measured frenzy, she proceeds to test the load-bearing capacity of a standard issue shopping trolley.
The ‘spoked tip’ vastly increases load-bearing capacity of the tip panel without increasing weight.
In addition, studies at the University of Alaska suggest that a warming of the permafrost by only 3 [degrees] C decreases its load-bearing capacity by up to 70 per cent.
In the absence of a ground plan with scale, it's impossible to accept this contention, specially because the substantive questions of proper alignment of pillar bases and their load-bearing capacity remain unresolved.
By trial and error they came to understand the load-bearing capacity and strength limitations of limestone, and so they knew when it was necessary to use a stronger material, such as granite.
Definition of load-bearing in US English:
load-bearing
adjectiveˈlōdˌberiNGˈloʊdˌbɛrɪŋ
1(especially of a wall) supporting much of the weight of the overlying parts of a building or other structure.
Example sentencesExamples
The Hippodrome structure consists of load-bearing exterior brick masonry walls with interior steel columns and beams.
The building structure consists of precast coreslab floors and roof, supported on load-bearing masonry walls or steel frame.
Recycled-plastic lumber is not strong enough to use for structural members, such as load-bearing walls, deck frames or floor joists, so you'll need to use traditional wood for those areas.
And just as importantly to masonry contractors, designers will be specifying more of their load-bearing walls as grouted and reinforced.
The exterior of the Oklahoma City Federal Building is a load-bearing wall that enables forces to arch over any damaged portions while the wall resists lateral and gravity loads.
1.1Relating to the carrying of a load.
the road's load-bearing capacity
Example sentencesExamples
In addition, studies at the University of Alaska suggest that a warming of the permafrost by only 3 [degrees] C decreases its load-bearing capacity by up to 70 per cent.
By trial and error they came to understand the load-bearing capacity and strength limitations of limestone, and so they knew when it was necessary to use a stronger material, such as granite.
Her eyes widen, then glaze over and then, in what I can only describe as a calm and measured frenzy, she proceeds to test the load-bearing capacity of a standard issue shopping trolley.
In the absence of a ground plan with scale, it's impossible to accept this contention, specially because the substantive questions of proper alignment of pillar bases and their load-bearing capacity remain unresolved.
The ‘spoked tip’ vastly increases load-bearing capacity of the tip panel without increasing weight.