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Hypocaust is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Hypocaust in a sentence

Hypocaust meaning

  1. An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.
  2. An underfloor heating system, even without such an underfloor space or flue, as adapted for modern housing.

Using Hypocaust

  • The main meaning on this page is: An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath. | An underfloor heating system, even without such an underfloor space or flue, as adapted for modern housing.

Context around Hypocaust

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Sentence patterns with Hypocaust

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

block with hypocaust was added 1× mosaic and hypocaust and ruins 1× of the hypocaust under the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

central heating ruins 1× lullingstone roman villa 1× st albans has 1×

Common sentence endings:

a roman villa 1× hypocaust was added 1× in verulamium park 1×

Words around Hypocaust

Just before it in the word index:

hypocalcemia 2 hypoblast 3 hypoallergenic 33 hypoactive 5 hypo 14 hypnozoites 2

Just after it in the word index:

hypocellular 3 hypocenter 2 hypocentre 2 hypochlorite 12 hypochlorous 5 hypochloryl 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaaand 5 aaah 5 aacl 5 aak 5 aapke 5 aarav 5

Corpus analysis for Hypocaust

  • In this selection, "hypocaust" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Recognizable usage signals include block with hypocaust was added and mosaic and hypocaust and ruins. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "hypocaust" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with hypocaust

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Central heating Ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a Roman villa. (13 words)

Lullingstone Roman Villa, Michael Fulford, page 18 Enlargement Around AD 150 the villa was expanded and a heated bath block with hypocaust was added. (24 words)

St Albans has a range of Roman relics to view, including 'The Roman Mosaic and Hypocaust' and ruins of a ancient wall in Verulamium Park. (25 words)

Longer example sentences

St Albans has a range of Roman relics to view, including 'The Roman Mosaic and Hypocaust' and ruins of a ancient wall in Verulamium Park. (25 words)

Lullingstone Roman Villa, Michael Fulford, page 18 Enlargement Around AD 150 the villa was expanded and a heated bath block with hypocaust was added. (24 words)

Central heating Ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a Roman villa. (13 words)

Example sentences (3)

St Albans has a range of Roman relics to view, including 'The Roman Mosaic and Hypocaust' and ruins of a ancient wall in Verulamium Park.

Central heating Ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a Roman villa.

Lullingstone Roman Villa, Michael Fulford, page 18 Enlargement Around AD 150 the villa was expanded and a heated bath block with hypocaust was added.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "hypocaust" in a sentence?
An example: "St Albans has a range of Roman relics to view, including 'The Roman Mosaic and Hypocaust' and ruins of a ancient wall in Verulamium Park." This page contains 3 example sentences with the word "hypocaust" from authentic English texts.
What does "hypocaust" mean?
Hypocaust means: An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.
How many example sentences with "hypocaust" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 3 example sentences with "hypocaust", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.