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单词 shipyard
释义
shipyardship‧yard /ˈʃɪp-jɑːd $ -jɑːrd/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Chemical smoke pouring off the shipyards and factories.
  • Four big shipyards nearby and others further afield provided a ready-made market for its paints.
  • Mr Walesa began working at the shipyard in 1967.
  • She moved to Portland, Ore., where she worked several jobs until later working as a welder at the shipyards.
  • The engineers and labourers would sometimes appear from the shipyards with their black faces.
  • Washed his face and hands in the kitchen sink, threw away the name of the shipyard foreman.
  • Without new orders, the shipyard would have run out of work by the end of next year.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a building or group of buildings in which goods are produced in large quantities, using machines: · She works in a chocolate factory.· a clothing factory
a large factory where cars, chemicals, or energy is produced: · Local residents are protesting about the new nuclear power plant.· a car plant· a nuclear power plant
a factory. Facility is often used instead of factory in business English: · The new production facility is one of the most up-to-date in the area.
used in the following compounds to describe a factory that produces a particular thing: a steelworks/ironworks/brickworks/a chemical/cement works/a printing works
a factory that produces paper, cotton, or cloth: · a paper mill· The textile mill has been converted into luxury flats.
a place where ships are built or repaired: · The vessel was built in the Kobe shipyard.
a factory where metal is made into things using moulds: · Mandela’s statue was cast here in a local foundry.
disapproving a small factory where people work hard in bad conditions for very little money: · The company was fined for selling goods produced in sweatshops.
WORD SETS
acceptance sampling, assembly line, nounautomated, adjectiveautomation, nounbonded factory, business park, nouncannery, nouncash conversion, nouncertificate of analysis, nounchaebol, nounCIM, CKD, coachbuilder, nouncompletely built-up, adjectivecompletely knocked-down, adjectivecutoff, noundistillery, noundown time, drawdown, nounend-product, nounengineering insurance, fabricator, nounfacility, nounfactory, nounfactory preset, nounfeedstock, nounfirst in, first out, nounfork-lift truck, nounfurnace, nounGantt chart, intermediate goods, investment goods, manufacturer, nounmanufacturing, nounmass-produced, adjectivemill, nounMRO, nounoutput, nounoutturn, nounplant, nounpottery, nounprocessing, nounproduction line, nounproject engineer, quality control, nounrefinery, nounresearch manager, retool, verbright first time, adjectiverisk analysis, nounsawmill, nounshed, nounshipyard, nounshop, nounshop floor, nounsingle sourcing, sourcing, nounsteelworks, nounstock control management, supply chain management, works, nounwork sampling, zero defects,
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Many, like Ronnie Collyer, a retired shipyard worker, still live here and are still proud of the place.· First, the shipyard workers were ex-posed to the deadly blue and brown varieties of asbestos, and in extraordinarily high concentrations.
VERB
· Her family originally came from Govan, where her father and her grandfather worked in the shipyards.· Mr Walesa began working at the shipyard in 1967.· It was wartime and your father was working in the shipyards.
a place where ships are built or repaired
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