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Discover LudwigThe phrase "drop ceiling" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in construction or interior design contexts to refer to a secondary ceiling that is hung below the main ceiling.
Example: "The office renovation included the installation of a drop ceiling to improve acoustics and conceal wiring."
Alternatives: "suspended ceiling" or "false ceiling."
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drop ceiling
noun
A dropped ceiling
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A drop ceiling.
It has a drop ceiling and fluorescent lighting.
The test container datacenter contains ten racks and the cold air is supplied from drop ceiling.
The panels of the office-style drop ceiling are old and stained.
He also removed the drop ceiling to open up the space even more.
She hoisted herself through a crumbling drop ceiling and into a space with steel trusses.
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Up above, drop-ceiling railings dangle like stalactites.
"We have drop-ceiling tiles in our studio, and they're very ugly," said the company's creative director, Jaime Salm.
A sleeping loft became a huge closet; a tiny hall, its ceiling as high as the loft, received a mullioned window as a kind of drop-ceiling.
The drop-ceiling and urinal-cake-perfumed hall to the bathroom were crummy, from an objective point of view, but the sight lines were somehow perfect; you could hide there it was the sort of place that offered the frisson of unexpected and awkward encounters and you could read in peace, or mingle as the mood took you.
With its linoleum floors and animal protein odors, the Carnegie Deli was never fine dining, but the seedy lighting and eclectic checkerboard of celebrity photos (from the quarterback Y. A. Tittle to the Fonz, Henry Winkler) gave the place a homey sort of drop-ceiling charm.
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