Porch vs Terrace - What's the difference?
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(architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
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A portico; a covered walk.
A platform that extends outwards from a building.
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A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
(in the plural, chiefly, British) The standing area at a football ground.
(chiefly, Indian English) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
To provide something with a terrace.
To form something into a terrace.
As nouns the difference between porch and terrace
is that porch is a covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof while terrace is a platform that extends outwards from a building.As a verb terrace is
to provide something with a terrace.As a proper noun Terrace is
a city in British Columbia, Canada.porch
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(en noun)- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace , explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
