piers
码头,桥墩,墩子,墩柱
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Definitions
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- : 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
On December 18, Kerri and her brother, Mike, told Piers Morgan on CNN about their grievances with their stepmother.
“About six corporations control 90 per cent of what Americans see,” Martin fulminated earlier this week on Piers Morgan.
Here are some of the simple ways I helped, which could have easily helped Piers Morgan.
Brooks replied, according to Sitham: “Been hacking into my phone again have you, Piers?”
Piers Morgan was, at the time, editing the rival tabloid, the Daily Mirror.
There was one point about one of the piers—the Seventh—that that he had not fully settled in his mind.
After a dusty walk round piers and beaches lunched with Hunter-Weston before inspecting the 155th and 156th Brigades.
He had at once plunged74 himself in difficulties with his barons by his infatuation for Piers de Gaveston.
Generally speaking, the Norman piers at Romsey are compound ones, formed of many minor shafts.
When, at length, the smoke of the “big brother” was observed drawing near, the people flocked in hundreds to the piers and cliffs.