单词 | industrial |
释义 | industrial (once / 166 pages) 1adj 2adj Something industrial has to do with industry or factories. If you're taking a stroll alone at night, avoid the industrial areas — there aren't many people around after business hours and it can be kind of spooky. Industrial, besides meaning "having to do with industry," has also come to mean "tough," capable of withstanding factor wear and tear. If you're carpeting your home, avoid industrial carpet. It's easy to clean but not so soft. An industrial nation is a developed nation with manufacturing as part of its economy. If you work in the industrial sector, as opposed to say the arts sector, you work in manufacturing. WORD FAMILYindustrial: industrialer, industrialise, industrialism, industrialize, industrially, nonindustrial, postindustrial+/industrialise: industrialisation, industrialised/industrialism: industrialisms, industrialist/industrialist: industrialists/industrialization: industrializations/industrialize: industrialization, industrialized, industrializes, industrializing/industrialized: unindustrialized/industrious: industriously, industriousness/industry: industrial, industries, industrious USAGE EXAMPLESEach amounts to an industrial control system that dispatches electricity from where it is generated to the consumers who use it. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) All kinds of companies, including century-old industrial stalwarts like General Motors and General Electric, are among the corporate giants acquiring tech start-ups of late. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Emergency personnel arrived just after midnight Sunday at the Campbell Industrial Park in Kapolei to find the two victims injured. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj of or relating to or resulting from industry industrial output 2adj having highly developed industries the industrial revolution an industrial nation Syn|Ant developed, highly-developed (used of societies) having high industrial development industrialised, industrializedmade industrial; converted to industrialism postindustrialof or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research progressivefavoring or promoting progress nonindustrial not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises developing, underdevelopedrelating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply unindustrialised, unindustrializednot converted to industrialism 3adj employed in industry 2the industrial classes industrial work Syn blue-collar of or designating manual industrial work or workers adj suitable to stand up to hard wear industrial carpeting Syn heavy-duty designed for heavy work |
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