carpentered

comparative more carpentered · superlative most carpentered

1. Built by a carpenter.

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

   2019, Charlotte Bruckermann, Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China, page 58

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   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).

   2012, International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home - Volume 7, page 278

   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.

   2014, Jon Campbell-Copp, Wake of the Sun

   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.

   2018, James Williams, Felicitas Hentschke, To be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World, page 206

2. Containing or involving right angles and vertical and horizontal edges.

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

   2014, Mallory Wober, Psychology in Africa, page 104

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   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.

   2012, Michael W. Eysenck, Simply Psychology, page 301

   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.

   2019, Dale Purves ·, Brains as Engines of Association, page 94

3. Created or built with a formal structure.

   Essays maybe are a little more carpentered, you know ?

   2020, Joe Mackall, Daniel W. Lehman, River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction, page 162

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

   1988, Robert G. Collins, E.J. Pratt, page 137

   Is Jamaica society more sedimented than that of Trinidad? Is Trinidad society more carpentered by comparison and thus more likely to fly apart if put under heavy social pressure?

   1991, Selwyn D. Ryan, The Muslimeen Grab for Power, page 339

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of carpenter