carpentered

adj

1. Built by a carpenter.

   “Houses are run up from wood, metal, and cardboard debris, although some of the better, carpentered homes scarcely differ from the chattel houses of the rent yards (Figure 7).”

   “Carpentered cupboards were installed above, while over a dozen drawers of varying size were built into the space beneath the counter, creating a sense that counter and drawers were one continuous piece of wood.”

   “As vestiges of feudal superstition, ancestral tablets were not considered objects for a public audience during the Maoist era and were hidden from view in carpentered cabinets.”

   “These ornately carved and carpentered cabinets at the ancestral altar were often complemented with offerings of liquor, flowers, and incense in delicate glass vases.”

2. Containing or involving right angles and vertical and horizontal edges.

   “They argued that this illusion would only be perceived by those with experience of a carpentered environment, which contains numerous rectangles, straight lines, and regular corners.”

   “People who live in 'more carpentered' environments would be more susceptible.”

   “Whether in "natural" scenes or scenes in which there are more “carpentered” angles due to human artifacts, the result is the same: the frequency of occurrence of projected angles is greater at the two ends of the angular range and least in the middle—that is around 90 degrees.”

3. Created or built with a formal structure.

   “Towards the Last Spike is more carpentered in form than the earlier narratives.”

   “Is Jamaica society more sedimented than that of Trinidad? Is Trinidad society more carpentered by comparison and thus more likely to fly apart if put under heavy social pressure?”

   “Essays maybe are a little more carpentered, you know ?”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of carpenter