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gantry

/gan-tree/US // ˈgæn tri //UK // (ˈɡæntrɪ) //

龙门架,龙门,龙门阵,龙门式

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gan·tries.

    • : a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
    • : any of various spanning frameworks, as a bridgelike portion of certain cranes.
    • : Rocketry. a frame consisting of scaffolds on various levels used to erect vertically launched rockets and spacecraft.
    • : a framelike stand for supporting a barrel or cask.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Check out this 2003 clip in which this soft-spoken Jewish pischer was transformed into Elmer Gantry.

  • At first Lear thought of making a feature film satirizing Swaggart and his ilk—sort of an updated Elmer Gantry.

  • Palin is a beauty-queen Elmer Gantry, outdoing Stephen Colbert in cheesy, braying nationalism.

  • Creeping along behind the string of coal cars I came presently to the great gantry crane used for unloading the fuel.

  • Rick looked through the glass ports and saw the gantry crane being wheeled away.

  • A yell would stop Dr. Bernais, and the gantry would be wheeled back into place.

  • Before entering, our attention is arrested by a huge gantry crane, borne by two columns which travel on rails.

  • Gantry's own boyhood was not so deeply buried in the past as to make him forgetful of its joys and sorrows.