adobe
adobe — noun
1. a building material made by mixing clay, earth, and straw, then shaping the mixt
a building material made by mixing clay, earth, and straw, then shaping the mixture into bricks that are left to harden in the sun rather than being baked in a kiln.
The old mission church had thick adobe walls that stayed cool in the summer heat.
adobe + wall: noun-as-attribute pattern
Many traditional homes in the southwestern United States are built of adobe.
passive: be built of adobe
Diego watched workers mix straw into wet clay to form adobe bricks by hand.
After two weeks in the desert sun, the adobe bricks were dry enough to stack.
The museum exhibit showed how ancient communities made adobe from local mud and plant fibres.
- mudbrick
more general term; can refer to any brick made from mud, whether sun-dried or not
- sun-dried brick
descriptive phrase that makes the drying method explicit
- earthen brick
emphasises the natural earth content of the material
- fired brick
brick hardened in a kiln at high temperature rather than by the sun
- kiln-dried brick
emphasises the industrial drying method
文法句型
adobe + noun (brick/wall/house)
made of adobe
用法筆記
Adobe is an uncountable noun when referring to the material itself, but it also commonly appears attributively before nouns that describe things made from it (e.g. adobe house, adobe wall).