单词 | pumping station |
释义 | > as lemmaspumping station pumping station n. a station housing a pump or a collection of pumps, esp. for water or sewage. ΚΠ 1851 Times 1 Feb. 3/2 The invert of the high level sewer at the pumping station will be 20ft. above the Ordnance datum. 1868 Daily News 31 July All the sewage..has to be lifted, and for this purpose there are four pumping stations. 1954 E. Huxley Four Guineas (1955) 35 Sixty or seventy British ex-soldiers were at work..ripping out irrigation channels, building their accompanying bunds and sluices and erecting a pumping station. 1999 Water & Waste Treatm. Sept. 8/3 A number of tunnels have also been pipejacked to connect the storage tunnel to the sewer network and a new pumping station. < as lemmas |
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