Eaves

For people named Eaves, see Eaves (surname). Eaves or Eves is a surname and may refer to Dan Eaves Elisabeth Eaves Elsie Eaves

For the English village, see Eaves, Lancashire. Eaves is a Village in the English County of Lancashire, located six miles north of Preston.

An eave is the edge of a roof. Vietnam roofjpg|thumb|The roofs of Vietnam.]] A roof is the covering on the uppermost part of a Building. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building generally to provide weather protection. Some buildings, such as Craftsman bungalows, have very wide eaves with decorative brackets. The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, Interior design, and Decorative A bungalow (બંગલો baṅglo, बंगला baṅglā) is a type of single-storey House that originated in India. Brackets are Punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text

The word eave can also refer to the part of a sloping roof that overhangs the wall or the soffit, the lower edge of the part of a roof that overhangs a wall. A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area Soffit (from French soffite, Italian soffitto, formed as a ceiling directly from suffictus for suffixus, Latin

In passive solar building design, the eave may be extended to control the amount of solar light and heat entering the window(s). Passive solar buildings aim to maintain interior Thermal comfort throughout the sun's daily and annual cycles whilst reducing the requirement for active heating and cooling GlassWindowjpg|thumb|right|190px|A stained glass panel depicting Biblical scenes at a historic church in Scotland]] A window is an opening

The eavesdrip is the width of ground around a house or building which receives the Rain water dropping from the Eaves. Eavesdropping is the act of surreptitiously listening to a private conversation Chhajja is the term for projecting Eaves or cover usually supported on large carved brackets, as used in Indian architecture (especially Mughal A rainhead is a device used in Roof Plumbing for the capture of Stormwater run off from the Rain guttering of a building In Architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone Grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building

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(plural only; not used in singular form) The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building

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