(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.
Stringer
Definition:
(n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
(n.) A libertine; a wencher.
(n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
(n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
(n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) Eiluned Pearce and Robin Dunbar of Oxford University recently worked with Stringer and compared the skulls of 32 Homo sapiens and 13 Neanderthals, finding the latter had eye sockets that were significantly larger.
(3) Stringer’s statement said: “We are all familiar with the events that led to the death of Eric Garner and the extraordinary impact his passing has had on our city and our nation.
(4) Even Rob Stringer, the president of the Sony Music Label Group and one of the most powerful men in the music industry, only became aware of The Next Day's existence a month ago, when he was invited to the studio in New York to hear some tracks.
(5) He was a tougher guy than Stringer Bell or John Luther, and – to judge by many stories – very nearly as appealing to the ladies.
(6) Take Stringer or Luther – that seems to be a common denominator in the characters I play."
(7) Sir Howard Stringer hired David Letterman for US network CBS and was the first non-Japanese national to run electronics group Sony.
(8) He is backing the former Sony boss, Sir Howard Stringer .
(9) These days, people in the street no longer call Elba Stringer Bell.
(10) I don’t know if a new leader can tear up that agreement with their constituents.” Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Broughton, added: “As Jeremy has in the past, I have always thought the shadow cabinet should be elected.” Simon Danczuk, the MP for Rochdale, is understood to have already looked with colleagues at how a slate of moderate MPs could be compiled to fill key posts.
(11) Best wishes, Frank Field MP (Birkenhead), Ronnie Campbell MP (Blyth Valley), lan Davidson MP (Glasgow South West), Roger Godsiff MP (Birmingham Hall Green), Kate Hoey MP (Vauxhall), John Mann MP (Bassetlaw), Graham Stringer MP (Blackley & Broughton)
(12) However, Stringer and Buck stress that they are not arguing that Neanderthals definitely did not eat vegetables or could not have used certain herbs as medicines.
(13) In other words, there was a long, gradual takeover by modern humans – an idea that is likely to be demolished at this week's conference, Stringer said.
(14) Professor Chris Stringer is the research leader in human origins at the Natural History Museum, London
(15) Following a judicious review of the claim and facts of this case, my office was able to reach a settlement with the estate of Eric Garner that is in the best interests of all parties,” Stringer said.
(16) The airport has launched its own inquiry, although MP Graham Stringer questioned whether David McMillan, the non-executive director, conducting the review, could be regarded as independent as he was primarily responsible to shareholders.
(17) "This new venture will allow Sony Music and all Sony divisions to develop and pursue a host of new opportunities with this supremely talented individual," said Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and chief executive of Sony Corporation.
(18) It should never have been over that road.” Labour MP Grahame Morris said airshows should be “limited to displaying over water”, while fellow Labour MP Graham Stringer, a former chairman of Manchester airport and former member of the Commons transport committee, told the Daily Mirror “there should be a serious look at the regulations with a view to tightening them up”.
(19) "Before his switch to Heerenveen, Viktor Elm scored four games in his final match for Kalmar, while playing alongside brothers Rasmus and David," notes Steve Stringer.
(20) "An example of that sort of cannibalism was provided by the Andes air crash in 1972 when survivors ate the flesh of those who had been killed in the accident," said Stringer.