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单词 gantry
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Definition of gantry in English:

gantry

nounPlural gantries ˈɡantriˈɡæntri
  • 1A bridge-like overhead structure with a platform supporting equipment such as a crane, signals, or cameras.

    桥式台架(如起重龙门架; 铁路的跨轨信号架; 照相机的三脚架)

    the TV cameras on gantries alongside the 17th and 18th holes
    as modifier a gantry crane
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This fixed-reactive component has an overhead gantry to which a frame is attached, and ride motions are fed through the axles and into the frame.
    • The gantries also carry cameras that record numberplates.
    • One of the key components of an improvement in the port's ability to handle goods, particularly containers, would have been the provision of a gantry crane.
    • A gantry crane lifts the containers onto the ship.
    • The productivity of the terminal is expected to go up substantially once the gantry cranes are refitted by the fourth quarter of 2005.
    • Roadside gantries and enforcement equipment take up valuable road space and they could be difficult to install in a city with high urban density.
    • With the gantry crane on site, the new turbine is being unloaded and moved to its foundation.
    • All three types of equipment are on gantries which have gone up on roads around Leeds.
    • I have looked carefully at what is now proposed, which is generally a matter of relatively small traffic signs and modest cameras, rather than gantries such as some have supposed.
    • He cites examples of spaces in New York's Chelsea and SoHo districts, where sinks and hooks remain as testament to the past lives of a space; and the gantry and crane at Tate Modern.
    • Calatrava's tower seems the more absurd because it is to be close to the mighty gantry crane of the defunct Kockums shipyard.
    • Unfamiliar objects, camera gantries, floodlights and trails of wire stimulated considerable interest among the population of boarding students staying at the school.
    • Sweeping past in endless succession were a forest of smoke-stacks, cooling-towers, pylons, transformers, scaffolding, flood-light towers and railway signal gantries.
    • Miniature traffic lights on the overhead gantry turn from red to green and drivers simply drop their clutches and bury their accelerator pedals.
    • The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
    • Meanwhile, Railtrack has announced that a signal gantry in the new-look Leeds station has been installed at the wrong height.
    • One psychic described an airfield with a gantry and crane at a set of coordinates that placed it at the Soviet nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk.
    • Then he was suspended upside down from an overhead gantry for some minutes.
    • After all three were seen on the lines and sitting on the rails, two climbed a signal gantry and interfered with the equipment.
    • Do you know how much business you can lose without a gantry crane?
    1. 1.1 A tall framework supporting a space rocket prior to launching.
      (太空火箭发射前用来竖立火箭的)塔架
      an elevator took them up the gantry and inside the ship
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It will also be integrated and assembled in the mobile gantry on the launch pad and not in a final assembly building.
      • Surface wind at the time of the rollback of the gantry surrounding the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle was as high as 36 knots.
      • The second stage of a Delta II rocket is prepared for its shift to vertical alongside the gantry at pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station.
      • The shuttle launch gantry is equipped with seven 1,200-foot-long sliding wires, each attached to a basket similar to those used for hot-air ballooning.
  • 2(in a bar) a structure containing inverted bottles and fitted with optics for serving measures.

    (酒吧中倒置于酒架上的)酒瓶

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They found a working bar complete with a stock of alcohol, a spirits gantry, bar stools and mats, neon lights and even a one-armed bandit machine.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a wooden stand for barrels): probably from dialect gawn (contraction of gallon) + tree.

Rhymes

pantry

Definition of gantry in US English:

gantry

nounˈɡantrēˈɡæntri
  • 1A bridge-like overhead structure with a platform supporting equipment such as a crane, railroad signals, lights, or cameras.

    桥式台架(如起重龙门架; 铁路的跨轨信号架; 照相机的三脚架)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The productivity of the terminal is expected to go up substantially once the gantry cranes are refitted by the fourth quarter of 2005.
    • After all three were seen on the lines and sitting on the rails, two climbed a signal gantry and interfered with the equipment.
    • With the gantry crane on site, the new turbine is being unloaded and moved to its foundation.
    • The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
    • Calatrava's tower seems the more absurd because it is to be close to the mighty gantry crane of the defunct Kockums shipyard.
    • Do you know how much business you can lose without a gantry crane?
    • This fixed-reactive component has an overhead gantry to which a frame is attached, and ride motions are fed through the axles and into the frame.
    • The gantries also carry cameras that record numberplates.
    • Then he was suspended upside down from an overhead gantry for some minutes.
    • One psychic described an airfield with a gantry and crane at a set of coordinates that placed it at the Soviet nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk.
    • Miniature traffic lights on the overhead gantry turn from red to green and drivers simply drop their clutches and bury their accelerator pedals.
    • Roadside gantries and enforcement equipment take up valuable road space and they could be difficult to install in a city with high urban density.
    • He cites examples of spaces in New York's Chelsea and SoHo districts, where sinks and hooks remain as testament to the past lives of a space; and the gantry and crane at Tate Modern.
    • Unfamiliar objects, camera gantries, floodlights and trails of wire stimulated considerable interest among the population of boarding students staying at the school.
    • Meanwhile, Railtrack has announced that a signal gantry in the new-look Leeds station has been installed at the wrong height.
    • Sweeping past in endless succession were a forest of smoke-stacks, cooling-towers, pylons, transformers, scaffolding, flood-light towers and railway signal gantries.
    • One of the key components of an improvement in the port's ability to handle goods, particularly containers, would have been the provision of a gantry crane.
    • A gantry crane lifts the containers onto the ship.
    • All three types of equipment are on gantries which have gone up on roads around Leeds.
    • I have looked carefully at what is now proposed, which is generally a matter of relatively small traffic signs and modest cameras, rather than gantries such as some have supposed.
    1. 1.1 A movable framework for supporting and servicing a rocket prior to launching.
      (太空火箭发射前用来竖立火箭的)塔架
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The shuttle launch gantry is equipped with seven 1,200-foot-long sliding wires, each attached to a basket similar to those used for hot-air ballooning.
      • Surface wind at the time of the rollback of the gantry surrounding the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle was as high as 36 knots.
      • The second stage of a Delta II rocket is prepared for its shift to vertical alongside the gantry at pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station.
      • It will also be integrated and assembled in the mobile gantry on the launch pad and not in a final assembly building.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a wooden stand for barrels): probably from dialect gawn (contraction of gallon) + tree.

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