Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being a building of moderate height, having usually more than three and less than eight stories.
- adjective Having or characterized by mid-rise buildings.
- adjective Of or relating to pants with a waistline that rests just above the hips.
- noun A mid-rise building.
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Examples
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The historic, mid-rise city halls of San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles were all retrofitted to rest on giant shock absorbers.
Japan a leader in engineering earthquake-proof structures, helping to limit damage 2011
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Other shorter and mid-rise buildings rest on Teflon-coated pegs embedded in the foundation.
Japan a leader in engineering earthquake-proof structures, helping to limit damage 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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"The ability to design mid-rise housing with ground-floor commercial will obviously be an economic boon for all those property owners and businesses."
Rezoning May Bolster Webster Avenue Joseph De Avila 2011
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Other shorter and mid-rise buildings rest on Teflon-coated pegs embedded in the foundation.
Japan a leader in engineering earthquake-proof structures, helping to limit damage 2011
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Ingels is fond of neologisms and has dubbed it a "mid-rise."
Building a Better Future Richard B. Woodward 2011
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The historic, mid-rise city halls of San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles were all retrofitted to rest on giant shock absorbers.
Japan a leader in engineering earthquake-proof structures, helping to limit damage 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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