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/əˈdōbē/,
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adobes, plural;
  1. A kind of clay used as a building material, typically in the form of sun-dried bricks
    • - adobe houses
  2. A brick of such a type

  3. A building constructed from such material

  1. the clay from which adobe bricks are made
  2. sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates
  3. Adobe (Arabic: الطوبى) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, and/or manure), which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. ...
  4. Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development.
  5. Adobes is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 68 inhabitants.
  6. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; A house made of adobe brick
  7. (Adobes) (mud bricks) were made from a combination of earth and water, with chaff, straw, or manure added to bind the mixture together. Occasionally pieces of bricks or shells were placed in the mix to improve the cohesiveness. The soil used may have been clay, loam, or sandy or gravelly earth. ...
  8. Mud brick that is dried in the sun. The first adobe bricks were used 8,500 years ago in the Middle East.
  9. A building material made from clay, straw, and water, formed into blocks, and dried; used traditionally in the southwestern U.S.
  10. brick made from clay. From Arabic at-tuba (الطوبة from Coptic tôbe) of the same meaning, and from ad-dabba.
  11. (a-doe'-bee) A sun dried mud brick used as a building material.
  12. A mud mixture used to make sundried bricks for buildings in arid areas.
  13. Adobe is a kind of natural clay that is sticky when wet but dries hard.
  14. (ah-DOH-bay or uh-DOH-bee) [Spanish] 1. Typically, a sun-dried brick made of sand, clay and straw. 2. A dwelling or construction using such bricks. Adobe construction is found around the world, including the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. ...
  15. Adobe are the publishers of most of the major professional design and graphics applications in use by designers today. Their portfolio ranges from image editors, such as Photoshop; to video tools, such as Premier; to vector drawing programs such as Illustrator. ...
  16. heavy clay soil, not suitable for container gardening or hydroponics.
  17. A software company that produces software that Mpire Design uses to create designs.
  18. Adobe System Incorporated, founded in 1982, is a company that builds award-winning software solutions for network publishing, including web, print, video, wireless, and broadband applications. ...
  19. and Flash are registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
  20. The software developer of InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, among others.
  21. Clay and straw or grass mixed together to become a building material. Sometimes prehistoric people used adobe to build walls by laying down strips of adobe, then smoothing it. Since clay and straw were easy to find, Mormon settlers made many buildings from adobe bricks. ...
  22. Construction using sun-dried units of adobe soil for walls; usually found in southwestern United States.
  23. adj. having a clumsy user interface: "This is an Adobe application".
  24. Unburnt brick dried in the sun, commonly used for building in the American Southwest, Spain and Latin America. Usually covered with stucco in homes.
  25. Sun dried (i.e. baked) clay in block form. Typically about 4 x 18 x 20 inches, adobe blocks are made from clayey soil, water and sometimes straw is added as a binder.