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quonset hut

/kwon-sit/US // ˈkwɒn sɪt //

棚屋,矮屋,帐篷屋,帐篷小屋

Definitions

  1. 1

    Trademark.

    • : a semicylindrical metal shelter having end walls, usually serving as a barracks, storage shed, or the like, developed for the U.S. military forces from the British Nissen hut at Quonset Naval Base in Rhode Island.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Sputtering, I manage a few “hut-hut-huts” with the other students.

  • Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.

  • On every trip to a village, a hospital, a hut, Breman and the others carried an invisible burden: they could be next.

  • In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.

  • We shot it in Belfast at a legit hut on location rather than a studio.

  • To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.

  • The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.

  • The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.

  • It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.

  • Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.