gantry - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • use: A series of shackles and wires are attached and the buoy is pulled in using the stern gantry.
  • erect: We also spent a day erecting the gantry with the help of another friend, a neighbor from down the lane.

Adjective modifier

  • fixed: If a tanker is loaded from a fixed gantry and access is required onto the top of the tanker, fencing should be provided.
  • high: A 10 foot high metal gantry on the roof would have mounted the radar array.
  • new: The new gantries will be fitted to all new appliances.
  • large: The MoD claim to currently only fire at " soft " targets, plastic or canvas hoisted on large gantries on the skyline.

Modifies a noun

  • crane: Due to highly dynamic drives for operating the gantry crane, up to 60 cycles per hour are possible.
  • sign: Gantry signs are mounted on the viaduct both ways to direct traffic.
  • system: Loading of barges was effected by means of an overhead gantry system direct into the works.
  • robot: The projects have ranged from the use of proprietary robot units to the development of a large, complex gantry robot system.
  • signal: Beyond the bridge a steel gantry signal stood, very straight, guarding the vanished junction ahead.

Noun used with modifier

  • overhead: The last signs before the exit are on a full overhead gantry.
  • loading: The captured vapors are burned to generate enough electrical energy for the Shell grid to compensate for the new loading gantry 's consumption.
  • signal: The signal gantry across the station throat is now installed.
  • steel: The four concrete bases for the 25 foot steel gantry can still be seen on either side of the building.

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