What's the difference between girder and horsehead?
Girder
Definition:
(n.) One who girds; a satirist.
(n.) One who, or that which, girds.
(n.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double.
Example Sentences:
(1) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
(2) Just offshore, steel girders poke out of the water to frustrate North Korean boats in the event of an invasion.
(3) Many are pinned down by huge blocks of concrete, bent iron girders, machinery.
(4) It was his first day at work but at 9.30am, barely two hours after he had begun manually counting the potato bags inside the steel girder compound, a Saudi-led airstrike began.
(5) Contractors are fitting gleaming walls of glass to girders which lurch at fashionably acute angles.
(6) "The podium for the politburo was there," he said, gesturing at an empty space surrounded by steel girders and a damp concrete floor.
(7) The structure is currently held up by iron girders put in place in 1947 by the British governor who ruled Palestine in the Mandate era .
(8) Several painted iron girders, stored on a field close to the farm, were determined as the source of the poisoning.
(9) The vehicle is believed to have been laden with 20 tonnes of steel girders.
(10) You can get waves off the ruins of the old west pier , where the steel girders stick out.
(11) When he brought the match to a conclusion after nearly three hours with a trademark lob (in a venue where the girders above the court are three centimetres lower than regulations stipulate), he fell to the clay – not his favourite playing surface – and cried uncontrollably.
(12) Close by, labourers scale the girders of what will be a massive commercial centre.
(13) It is believed to have been laden with 20 tonnes of steel girders.
(14) Among the features of the final stretch of the High Line – known as the Rail Yards section – is the 11th Avenue Bridge, an elevated ‘catwalk’ from which visitors can view the park, the cityscape and the Hudson River and the Pershing Square Beams; and a children’s play area constructed from the original line’s framework of steel beams and girders.
(15) There was no pavement, so as the traffic thundered past, we walked in the lane with the motorbikes and bicycles, many carrying steel girders that threatened to scythe us in two.
(16) Watson trudges past the heavy bags hanging from the steel girders.
(17) The students had ripped it down and the metal girders were twisted.
(18) Raising the roof, incidentally, is what the International Tennis Federation might have considered before a ball was struck as the girders holding the unbearably bright TV lights were a few centimetres the wrong side of legal height and a couple of Murray lobs almost bounced off them.
(19) Photograph: Sean Smith The entire roof of the palace has gone, leaving only a skeleton of red steel girders punctuated by tall trees.
(20) With its wood tables and industrial-scale girders and working roaster it's bang on trend.
Horsehead
Definition:
(n.) The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, all the jobs I have been offered so far have been worth $14 an hour instead of the $20 I was making at Horsehead," he says.
(2) "The job offers I'm getting are way worse than what I used to make at Horsehead," Jeffers says.
(3) Monaca is a prime example of the tradeoffs of reshoring: as the Horsehead plant closes and takes 700 jobs with it, a new Shell petrochemical plant will take up residence in the county.
(4) As John Jeffers, the Horsehead union boss, winds down his fight to secure the future of his colleagues, he is also thinking about his own future.
(5) In the late 1980s, he, like many of his childhood friends, took a job in a factory at the the Horsehead Corporation plant in Monaca, which produces both prime western zinc for brass-making and zinc oxide to make Michelin tires.
(6) None of the possible solutions – from educational reform to infrastructure investment – will come in time to help the workers at the Horsehead plant.
(7) Horsehead, struggling with high electricity prices and the cost of new environmental regulations, failed to get tax incentives it wanted from the state of Pennsylvania to reduce its costs.
(8) It will take patience and a deep compromise: the Shell plant's construction is years away, and it will employ 225 workers compared to Horsehead's 700 employees, 500 of whom have union jobs.