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gas·works
gaes wuhrks
复数:gasworks
noun
(used with a sing. verb) a plant at which gas is generated for use in heating and, esp. formerly, in lighting.
The first known use of gasworks was in 1819
gather1 of 2verb
to bring together : collect
pick entry 1 sense 2b, harvest
to gain by gradual increase
gather speed
to prepare (as oneself) by calling on strength
gather courage to dive
to draw about or close to something
to pull (cloth) along a line of stitching so as to draw into puckers
guess sense 1, deduce
to come together in a body or around a center of attraction
a crowd gathered round
increase entry 1, grow
a storm gathered outside
gather2 of 2noun
the result of gathering cloth : pucker
gatewaynoun
an opening for a gate
a passage into or out of a place or state
knowledge is the gateway to wisdom
gatekeepernoun
a person who tends or guards a gate
a person who controls access
gatehousenoun
a small building near a gate at an entrance (as to a park or gated community)
gatedadjective
having a gate
having guarded or locked gates designed to restrict access
a gated community
gatenoun
an opening in a wall or fence
a city or castle entrance often with defensive structures
the frame or door that closes a gate
a means of entrance or exit
a door, valve, or other device for controlling the passage of fluid
the total admission receipts or the number of spectators especially at a sports event
gatnoun
handgun
gasworksplural noun
a plant for manufacturing gas
1 From the large percentage of volatile products which it contains, it is greatly used in gasworks.
2 A cylindrical tower clad in weathered steel forms part of this extension to a 19th-century stone cottage in the English countryside, designed to recall a gasworks that previously stood on the site.
一个筒状塔楼覆盖在耐候钢之下,作为这座英国乡村19世纪石头平房的扩建。塔楼的设计是为了唤醒对该场地上曾有的煤气厂的记忆。
3 The new market is being built on a wharf whose soil is contaminated by the toxic effluent from a former gasworks.
4 Helm, the largest association affected, built an apartment block on contaminated land at the former gasworks site in Belfast last year.
5 Eastbourne seems to have carefully pushed its workers, together with the gasworks, market gardens, and other utilitarian features round the screen of Splash Point.
6 The last two processes are, in a real gasworks, usually separated, but for simplicity's sake we will combine them.
7 And right next door to it is what used to be the Arma gasworks, which supplied the gas for Moscow's streetlights.
8 At last I could go no further: I had run full tilt into a gasworks.
9 Above the bridge are tanneries, bonemills, and gasworks, from which all drains and refuse find their way into the Irk, which receives further the contents of all the neighbouring sewers and privies.
10 The pack of riders cycle past gasworks in the desert during the third and final stage of the Ladies Tour of Qatar cycling race, between Sealine Beach Resort and Doha.
在卡塔尔自行车女子巡回赛第三赛段最后阶段选手们经过沙漠上的天然气厂,位于海岸线海滩度假村和多哈之间。
11 As there are no gasworks in the Islands, creosote could not be produced, nor would it pay to import it from Hong Kong or elsewhere on account of the freight and duties.
12 Further northward are the western gasworks, and just beyond them the well-known cemetery of Kensal Green.
13 Neither the owners nor the workmen in gasworks, waterworks, or any other establishment on which the public depends for necessaries of life, should be allowed suddenly to stop work without notice.
14 Nearly all the ammonia of commerce comes from the gasworks.
15 In 1869 the corporation acquired the gasworks, the productive capacity 85 of which exceeds 70 million cub. ft. a day.
16 Any day now, his brewery, beer garden and slow food restaurant will open in full in a renovated 1901 red-brick building at an old gasworks in southern Berlin.
17 The gasworks may gloom at you from the far side.
18 I followed his advice and soon met him on the steps of the gasworks that served as the IRA's headquarters in the Bogside.
19 It is a cavernous temple to beer built out of the ruins of an abandoned gasworks plant dating to the turn of the last century.
20 The corporation owns the water supply, public baths and wash-houses and the gasworks.