mezzanine
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
banking
business
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
theater
Etymology: PIE word
 *médʰyos
The noun is borrowed from French mezzanine, and from its etymon Italian mezzanino, from mezzano (“(adjective) middle; (noun) go-between”) + -ino (diminutive suffix). Mezzano is derived from Latin mediānus (“central, middle”, adjective), from medius (“mid, middle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: mezzanines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mezzanines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mezzanining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mezzanined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mezzanined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An intermediate floor or storey in between the main floors of a building; specifically, one that is directly above the ground floor which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, and so resembles a large balcony overlooking the ground floor; an entresol.
pos: noun
examples: On our way to the top floor, we stopped at the mezzanine.
[W]ater closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod brace, armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: […]
In these sheds, individual products rest on short racks, so they can be reached more easily by employees who pick and box orders. In order to fit more racks, companies put in several mezzanine levels. As a result, the sheds rise taller: 21 metres, compared to B2B’s 15 metres.
On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
gloss: An apartment, room, etc., on such an intermediate floor.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The lowest balcony in an auditorium, cinema, theatre, etc.; the dress circle.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: In full mezzanine window: a small window at the height of a mezzanine floor (sense 1.1) or an attic, used to light these floors.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Characteristic of or relating to high-interest loans which have no collateral, and are regarded as intermediate in nature, ranking above equity but below secured loans.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This new vehicle funded the purchases of these tranches by issuing fixed-income interests to investors who were seeking high returns and who were willing to believe that by repackaging mezzanine tranches in MBS structures, some tranches could be designated as safe enough to obtain a AAA or AA rating.
gloss: Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To make interconnections easier, we added a mezzanine PCB.
gloss: To fit (a building or other place) with a mezzanine floor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: mezzanine board
mezzanine capital
mezzanine debt
mezzanine financing
mezzanine floor
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