(pronounced KAHN-sohl TAY-buhl) Let’s break it on down. Everyone knows what a table is, but what’s a console? A bracket, often curved or “S” in shape. Therefore, we can guess that the term console table incorporates these two elements.

(pronounced like the letters C.A.: see-ay) Don’t panic when you hear the initials “C.A.” spoken during your first A&D-related job or internship. It’s not code for Clueless A$$ or Cloddish Adolescent. The abbreviation is the common way to refer

(pronounced kehn-TROL joynt) A control joint is a continuous groove that is sawed, tooled or formed in a masonry or concrete wall or floor. The point of the control joint is to regulate the location and amount of cracking

(pronounced KOR-deh-vehn) Cordovan leather emerged in the 8th century in Spain when the Moors arrived there and tanned horsehide with a sulphur tannage. The soft, vegetable-tanned leather was first made in Córdoba, a city in Andalusia area of southern

(pronounced KOR-deh-roy) We often think of this fabric in terms of clothing, but this type of cloth that has parallel, lengthwise cut-pile ribs or ridges — otherwise known as wales — running the length of the fabric is useful

Instead of drilling in the earth for geological samples of rock and minerals, this kind of core drilling has to do with the interior, manmade landscape. Contractors and those in the A&D biz use the term core drilling