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单词 piling
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Definition of piling in English:

piling

noun ˈpʌɪlɪŋˈpaɪlɪŋ
mass noun
  • Heavy stakes or posts installed to support the foundations of a superstructure.

    wooden piling supporting a complex of waterfront buildings
    count noun construction workers carry out their work behind the steel pilings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Round the generous trench is a border of sheet steel piling which acts both as a means of defining the excavation and a railing.
    • The emphatic verticals of piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park.
    • Often they will be seen picking pieces of filamentous algae from pilings.
    • Once we have the demolition completed, we will be able to start on the new piling.
    • He put the closure of the heavy mill section, which makes piling, down to the "disastrous policies" of the previous board.
    • The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings.
    • Instead of being built on land, this shrine was constructed on pilings in a bay.
    • Natural benches made from salvaged timber piling from jetties on the Thames are to be placed along the route.
    • Sheet piling will replace sandbags this summer to protect the community from a repeat of the disastrous floods.
    • Where the Mississippi is 40 feet deep, the bridge's pilings go into bedrock 140 feet beneath the water's surface.

Rhymes

filing, reviling, tiling, unsmiling

Definition of piling in US English:

piling

nounˈpaɪlɪŋˈpīliNG
  • Heavy stakes or posts installed to support the foundations of a superstructure.

    wooden piling supporting a complex of waterfront buildings
    construction workers carry out their work behind the steel pilings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He put the closure of the heavy mill section, which makes piling, down to the "disastrous policies" of the previous board.
    • The emphatic verticals of piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park.
    • Sheet piling will replace sandbags this summer to protect the community from a repeat of the disastrous floods.
    • Natural benches made from salvaged timber piling from jetties on the Thames are to be placed along the route.
    • Once we have the demolition completed, we will be able to start on the new piling.
    • Instead of being built on land, this shrine was constructed on pilings in a bay.
    • Round the generous trench is a border of sheet steel piling which acts both as a means of defining the excavation and a railing.
    • The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings.
    • Where the Mississippi is 40 feet deep, the bridge's pilings go into bedrock 140 feet beneath the water's surface.
    • Often they will be seen picking pieces of filamentous algae from pilings.
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