单词 | open cut |
释义 | open cut in British Englishnoun civil engineering an excavation made in the open rather than in a tunnel cut-and-coveropen-cut in British English (ˈəʊpənˌkʌt) adjective the Austral and NZ equivalent of opencast open-cut in American English (ˈoupənˌkʌt) adjective Mining noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches Word origin [1880–85]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, highball, irredentist, jackpot, pari-mutuelExamples of 'open cut' in a sentence |
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