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Cornice vs E - What's the difference?

cornice | e |

As a noun cornice

is (architecture)  a horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls see also: eaves, fascia.

As a letter e is

the letter e with a circumflex.

cornice

English

(wikipedia cornice)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture)  A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls. See also: eaves, fascia.
  • A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown moulding.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
  • A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.

    • e

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=d, next=f, image= (wikipedia e)

    Letter

  • The fifth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Symbol

    (Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)
  • (label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
  • Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
    • 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
  • close-mid front unrounded vowel
  • (l)
    • a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
  • (label) electron

    • Synonyms

    * (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)

    See also

    {{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e ----