carpentered

carpentered (comparative more carpentered, superlative most carpentered)

1. Built by a carpenter.
   • 2012, International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home - Volume 7, page 278:

     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).

   • 2014, Jon Campbell-Copp, Wake of the Sun:

     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.

   • 2018, James Williams, Felicitas Hentschke, To be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World, page 206:

     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.

   • 2019, Charlotte Bruckermann, Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China, page 58:

     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.
   • 2012, Michael W. Eysenck, Simply Psychology, page 301:

     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.

   • 2014, Mallory Wober, Psychology in Africa, page 104:

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

   • 2019, Dale Purves ·, Brains as Engines of Association, page 94:

     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.
   • 1988, Robert G. Collins, E.J. Pratt, page 137:

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

   • 1991, Selwyn D. Ryan, The Muslimeen Grab for Power, page 339:

     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?

   • 2020, Joe Mackall, Daniel W. Lehman, River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction, page 162:

     Essays maybe are a little more carpentered, you know ?

carpentered

1. simple past and past participle of carpenter