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Definition: Gantry |
GantryNoun1. A framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gantry" was first used: 1356. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | A frame structure that spans over something, as an elevated platform that runs astride a work area, supported by wheels on each side; short for gantry crane or gantry scaffold. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | 1. beams or blocks of wood or cement on the floor to support casks 2. wooden trestle or stand for casks(Australia)3. raised framework or scaffolding for supporting casks or dipping tins. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A frame erected on a gold dredge for supporting different parts of the machinery. Also spelled: gauntry; gauntree. b. A bridge or platform carrying a traveling crane or winch and supported by a pair of towers, trestles, or side frames running on parallel tracks c. An overhead structure that supports machines or operating parts d. An upward extension of a shovel revolving frame that holds the boomline sheaves. (references) |
Transportation | Frame structure that spans over something, like an elevated platform astride a work area. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: GantrySynonym: gauntry (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gantry |
| Specialty definitions using "gantry": flexible gantry ♦ gantry crane, gantry scaffold, ground-handling equipment ♦ platform gantry ♦ suspension gantry ♦ tilting gantry, traveling gantry. (references) |
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Screenplays | I've played hundreds of descent, caring, women over the years but it took the role of an exploited, used, and abused prostitute in Elmer Gantry to win me an Oscar. (Women of the House; writing credit: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Elmer Gantry (1960) | |
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Business | Port equipment such as Gantry cranes, Mobile cranes, Tugboats, Tractors, Trailers and Forklifts are heavily used at all major ports throughout Thailand. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | Port-au-Prince possesses a roll-on/roll-off facility, a 30-ton gantry crane and a 50-ton mobile crane. (references) |
Panama | The following product categories enjoy good demand: Quay cranes, container cranes, forklifts, top loaders, rubber tire gantry cranes, power packs, and flatbeds. (references) | |
Senegal | The plan calls for the building of a distribution center, which will help in eliminating current congestion at the Port, the extension of the container terminal, and the acquisition of a gantry crane. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gantry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Gantry" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.55% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gantry": flexible gantry ♦ gantry bridge ♦ gantry crane ♦ gantry scaffold ♦ suspension gantry ♦ tilting gantry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gantry": gantry-lift. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gantry crane | 152 |
gantry | 56 |
elmer gantry | 37 |
gantry robot | 28 |
gantry system | 25 |
fiction gantry | 23 |
gantry table | 13 |
cnc gantry | 9 |
gantry machine | 7 |
beam cnc gantry | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gantry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vinç-urë (gauntry), kullë mbështetëse (gauntry). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسند خشبي للبراميل, جسر الاشارات, جسر الرافعة, الهزال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сигнален мостик, рамка на подемен кран, подставка за бъчва. (various references) | |
Chinese | 台架. (various references) | |
Danish | gangbro (construction trestle, footbridge, foot-bridge, gangway, overhead crossing, passage, passage way, pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, ramp, scaffold board, staging), stilladsbro (gangway, service bridge), hængestillads (suspension gantry), bukkebro (gangway, service bridge). (various references) | |
Dutch | stelling (essay, proposition, scaffolding, scantling, sentence, stillage(Australia and South Africa), theorem, thesis), ophangingsportaal (suspension gantry), hulpsteiger (construction trestle, staging), dienstbrug (gangway, service bridge). (various references) | |
Farsi | حاءل جراثقال , زیربشکه ای , جای چلیک . (various references) | |
Finnish | tukitelineet (scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)), palkit (scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)), laskuportaat (gangway, service bridge). (various references) | |
French | chantier. (various references) | |
German | Gerüst (cradle, framework, hull, scaffold, scaffolding, trestle, truss). (various references) | |
Greek | κατασκευαστικό γεφύρωμα (construction trestle, staging), στοίβα (pile, scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)), γέφυρα υπηρεσίας (gangway, passage, passage way, service bridge), γέφυρα εξυπηρέτησης (gangway, service bridge), γερανογέφυρα ανάρτησης (suspension gantry), ικρίωμα επιθεώρησης (gangway, service bridge), πρόσκαιρο γεφύρωμα (construction trestle, staging), υπόβαθρι (scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)), εσχάρα (crust, grating, grid, gridiron, grill, grillage, scantling, socket, stillage(Australia and South Africa), tray), ατσάλινοσ σκελετόσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemafor (semaphore, semaphoric, signal, signal gantry), portáldaru felső része, hordóállvány, állványzat (carriage, frame, gauntry, leg, scaffold, scaffolding, stage, staging). (various references) | |
Italian | sedile per botti (scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)), ponte di sospensione (suspension gantry), ponte di servizio (construction trestle, gangway, service bridge, staging), passerella (bridge, bridging class, cat walk, catwalk, connecting bridge, flying bridge, footbridge, foot-bridge, fore and aft bridge, gangboard, gangplank, gangway, loading ramp, monkey bridge, passage, passage way, ramp, scaffold board, service bridge, shore gangway, transitional class, walkway), cavalletto di sospensione (suspension gantry), cavalletto (bent, box, box horse, easel, frame, gauntry, horse, pedestal, rack, ridge, stand, support, table, trestle, tripod, vaulting box). (various references) | |
Korean | 미사일구조물. (various references) | |
Manx | gantree, droghad (arch, bridge, bridge of ship, viaduct). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antrygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | canteiro (bed, gauntry, nursery bed, plat, scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)). (various references) | |
Russian | рама (carriage, casing, chase, chassis, cradling, frame, mounting, rack, rama, windowbox), портальный, портал (doorway, portal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokretno postolje. (various references) | |
Spanish | viga (arbor, balk, baulk, beam, bearer, crossbeam, girder, joist, rafter, scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa), timber), puente de servicio (gangway, service bridge), portal (doorway, gate, gauntry, porch, portal), pasarela de servicio (gangway, service bridge), pórtico de suspensión (suspension gantry), durmiente (grit, scantling, shelf, sleeper, sleeping, stillage(Australia and South Africa), trimmer), combe (scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)), andamio (construction trestle, mine prop, pillar, pit prop, platform, post, prop, scaffold, scaffolding, staging, stull). (various references) | |
Swedish | ställning (attitude, capacity, center, centering, centre, cradle, degree, horse, place, position, rack, rank, scaffolding, situation, stance, standing, state, status), brygga (brew, brew (to drink), bridge, bridge circuit, bridgewall, jetty, jumper, make, percolate, pier, strap, to brew, wharf). (various references) | |
Thai | ขาหยั่งสำหรับตั้งกล้องหรือถังไม้. (various references) | |
Turkish | rampa (ascent, boarding, gantry scaffold, gauntry, launching pad, launching platform, pad, platform, raise, ramp), makas köprüsü, kızak (carrier, chock, coaster, cradle, drag, gauntry, Shipway, skid, sled, sledge, slide, slipway, stock, toboggan), fıçı kızağı (gauntry). (various references) | |
Ukranian | рама (carriage, casing, chassis, frame, gauntry, sash). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kanthelios. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cantherius. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | chantier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Gantry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anstry, antry, ganery, gangry, ganrif, ganrtry, gaty, gentr, gentra, gentri, ginty, gnart, Gundry, gunry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gantry" (pronounced ga"ntrē) |
| 5 | -a" n t r ē | pantry. |
| 4 | -n t r ē | carpentry, complementary, country, elementary, entry, gallantry, gentry, infantry, pageantry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, reentry, sentry, wintry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | ancestry, artistry, asymmetry, banditry, baptistery, basketry, bigotry, biochemistry, cabinetry, chemistry, circuitry, dentistry, dissymmetry, forestry, gadgetry, geochemistry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, industry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, optometry, palmistry, paltry, pastry, poetry, poultry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, registry, rocketry, spectrometry, sultry, summitry, symmetry, tapestry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: angry, grant, rangy, tangy. | |
-2 letters: arty, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gray, nary, rang, rant, tang, tarn, tray, yang, yarn. | |
-3 letters: ant, any, art, gan, gar, gat, gay, nag, nay, rag, ran, rat, ray, rya, tag, tan, tar, try, yar. | |
-4 letters: ag, an, ar, at, ay, na, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: agentry, gauntry. | |
+2 letters: guaranty, gyniatry, gyrating, gyration, nugatory, partying, stingray, straying, tarrying. | |
+3 letters: aroynting, betraying, dignitary, estraying, gallantry, gratingly, gyrations, hydrating, martyring, pageantry, pratingly, rantingly, ratifying, sergeanty, signatory, stingrays, strangely, strangury, vagrantly, yattering. | |
+4 letters: angularity, arrogantly, atrophying, flagrantly, fragrantly, gastronomy, generality, gratifying, gyniatries, gyrational, ignorantly, integrally, laryngitic, laryngitis, organicity, outpraying, oxygenator, panegyrist, pigmentary, portraying, pregnantly, rattlingly, segmentary, trigonally. | |
+5 letters: antigravity, arrestingly, astringency, banteringly, cosignatory, dehydrating, denigratory, designatory, ethnography, falteringly, fragmentary, glycerinate, grandiosity, granularity, granulocyte, guarantying, hairstyling, hydrogenate, integrality, interagency, interlaying, karyotyping, marginality, martyrizing, narratology, negotiatory, originality, outwearying, overstaying, oxygenators, panegyrists, pharyngitis, playwriting, prattlingly, rehydrating, repugnantly, singularity, startlingly, stenography, stratifying, stringybark, tapestrying, tracklaying, travestying, tyrannising, tyrannizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6E 74 72 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -. - .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a n t r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006E 0074 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416780868491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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