Lintel vs Soffit - What's the difference?
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(architecture) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
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(architecture) The visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element.
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(pipe technology) The top point of the inside open section of a pipe or box conduit.
In architecture terms the difference between lintel and soffit
is that lintel is a horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above while soffit is the visible underside of an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, staircase, vault or any other architectural element.As a proper noun Lintel
is the computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server.lintel
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(en noun)- Athelny had told him that he lived in a house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything, over the balustrade of old oak; and when he came down to open the door for Philip he made him at once admire the elegant carving of the lintel .
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(en noun)- If the soffit' is to be sloping, simply attach the ' soffit board(s) to the underside of the rafters, butting the edges tight against the fascia board in front and the barn siding in the back.
- The elevation of the pipe soffit is 10.4 meters above mean sea level.
