(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.
Twister
Definition:
(n.) One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
(n.) The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
(n.) A girder.
(n.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison between twister and digits yielded ten cases of twister preference, four of digit preference and twenty cases of overlap.
(2) Noel plummeted all the way to No 6, where he was picked up by the New Orleans Pelicans – who sadly robbed us of a classic tongue-twister, "New Orleans' Nerlens Noel", by trading him to the Philadelphia 76ers.
(3) The automatic wire twister reduces the time needed for wire twisting without altering the security of the twisted wire.
(4) Depth of modulation on the twister device was twice that on a proximal device in nine cases whereas one case showed a proximal device preference; five cases showed overlap.
(5) This paper deals with the vibration analysis of a blood processor centrifuge with an anti-twister mechanism.
(6) Kidron's footage of the event has the appearance of a 60s peace festival, shiny happy people holding hands, playing Twister in the park, dancing and singing and laughing together.
(7) But as soon as the consequences of that exercise in democracy loomed – and it appeared that many Tory MPs would vote in favour – the government panicked and the arm twisters were called into action to throttle the voice of the people.
(8) Along with her work for the BBC, Bradbury has also presented ITV gameshow Take on the Twisters.
(9) These include a Lego version of the Mines of Moria sequence from the Lord of the Rings films and an electronic dance version of Hasbro's popular family game Twister.
(10) 'McAllister proves to be a bit of a tongue-twister for some, and he is usually nicknamed "Mac".
(11) The surgical instrument most important for making wire fixation highly successful is a tightener-twister which protects wire loops from excessive strain during application, and permits twisting at a predetermined and therefore reproducible tension.
(12) Nine-hundred and eighty-one right-handed and 55 left-handed subjects were required to tap with a pen for 10 secs between targets 6 cm apart whilst either saying nothing, reciting a tongue-twister or saying la-la.
(13) This study reports on the laboratory elicitation of sublexical speech errors by means of tongue twisters.
(14) Blood processors that employ anti-twister mechanisms are becoming increasingly popular because they cause relatively less damage to the blood than the conventional ones, which employ rotating seals.
(15) Of the 2 twist-knot devices, the Rhinelander wire tightener-twister produced the greatest resistance to knot failure.
(16) Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider, a former contestant on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice TV show, said the tycoon had asked permission to use Twister Sister’s song We’re Not Gonna Take It at the end of his rallies, and he had been happy to agree.
(17) The top 13 in full Cabbage Patch Kids, JAKKS Pacific, RRP £29.99 Furby, Hasbro, RRP £59.99 InnoTab 2, Vtech, RRP £84.99 Jake and the Neverland Pirates – Pirate Ship Bucky, Mattel, RRP £49.99 LeapPad 2, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £89.99 Lego Friends: Olivia's House, Lego, RRP £69.99 Lego The Lord of the Rings: The Mines of Moria, Lego, £68.99 Mike the Knight's Deluxe Glendragon Playset, Character Options, £29.99 Monster High Ghouls Rule Dolls, Mattel, RRP £22.99 My Moshi Home, Vivid Imaginations, RRP £39.99 Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail-Fire, Hasbro, RRP £44.99 Twister Dance, Hasbro, RRP £26.99 Web Shooting Spider-Man, Hasbro, RRP £34.99
(18) Also on the site this week Christmas toys 2012: Furbys and Twister take parents back to the future Same-sex Mamas & Papas adverts 'celebrate modern family set-ups' Consumer borrowing surges On Saturday As well as travel insurance and Hurricane Sandy, Saturday's Guardian Money will look at how to beat the payday loan sharks and the best new 0% deals on credit cards.
(19) He was one of a team of tornado-chasers in the blockbuster Twister (1996), produced by Steven Spielberg .
(20) Testing has found that the ultimate force required to disrupt the wires twisted by either the automatic wire twister or manual techniques did not differ significantly and was directly related to the number of twists.