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pier

/peer/US // pɪər //UK // (pɪə) //

码头,墩子,栈桥,桥墩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
    • : a support for the ends of adjacent spans.
    • : a square pillar.
    • : a portion of wall between doors, windows, etc.
    • : a pillar or post on which a gate or door is hung.
    • : a support of masonry, steel, or the like for sustaining vertical pressure.
    • : a long passageway or corridor that extends from a central area of a building, especially one at an airport that leads to boarding gates.

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Examples

  • We leaned over the fishing pier and let the silence wrap around us.

  • It isn’t just because the refinery relies on dredging, which is partially taxpayer funded, for sugar ships to reach its piers.

  • The first will be to design the international pier extending out into the Pacific Ocean.

  • A submariner’s true comfort zone is beneath the waves so as soon as we broke ties with the pier we navigated toward water that was deep enough for us to dive.

  • Along the Pacific Coast, pier fishermen regularly catch them using live bait and hooks and lift or umbrella nets.

  • The designer's body was recovered near Pier 59 in Chelsea in the water alongside his docked yacht.

  • Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.

  • The river smelled faintly briny as waves brushed up against the pier.

  • But to do that, you would probably not put a roller coaster on the end of a pier.

  • Nearby, at the Beard Street Warehouses, Pier Glass was nearly washed away.

  • Five hundred of our fighting men are running to and fro between cliffs and sea carrying stones wherewith to improve our pier.

  • At the pier at "W" were several big lighters filled with wounded who were about to be towed out to Hospital ships.

  • Gwynne turned with a start and found that Isabel had run her launch up to a little pier.

  • It also authorised the construction and maintenance, as p. 150part of such railways, of any pier, quay or jetty.

  • The water-edge is faced with a handsome granite pier and steps, the blocks of which are bolted with copper.