lintel

IPA: ɫˈɪntʌɫ

(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.
(computing) The computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server.

Examples of "lintel" in Sentences

The lintel is the horizontal crosspiece over the door.
The word isn't lintel, which is the horizontal top of a doorway.
Fig. 98: Make sure the lintel is the correct size for wide openings.
The date 1685 is on one of the blocks, and 1672 on a lintel which is now placed with them.
On the lintel is the stationmaster's name painted in small white letters, like the name of the landlord over the doorway of an inn.
Fragments of the carved granite "lintel" found by Lansing, and a line drawing of one of the fragments of the lintel portraying King Khasekhemwy in festival costume
The principal item is the upper cave, small, square, and apparently still used by the Arabs: in the middle of the lintel is a lump looking like the mutilated capital of a column.
To eliminate the danger of shearing, it is therefore preferable to increase the length of the part of the lintel which is held in the wall, allowing a minimum of 20 cm for small openings.
There was once a well-known Scotch architect who held that the column and the lintel was the only permissible form of construction, and with this limitation and ill-selected Greek details he produced some fantastically ugly buildings.