Examples of gantry in a Sentence
Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2023
Everywhere containers were in motion; massive gantry cranes reached out over ships to grab at steel boxes like hungry horses.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
You will be asked to hold your breath as your body is passed through the gantry.
—Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
Once you are laid on the flatbed, it is passed through the gantry as the CT scanner rotates around the body to take continuous X-ray images.
—Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
The gantry, the high perch where play-by-play commentators call matches, had to be removed, clad in nonflammable material, and reinstalled.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
The transit agency anticipates the US Department of Transportation will give final approval after a 30-day public review period, a significant milestone that will allow construction to begin on the tolling gantries.
—Michelle Kaske, Fortune, 12 May 2023
As SpaceX’s Starship rocket took flight last week in Texas, more than two dozen powerful rocket engines fired at once, pushing the enormous vehicle into space—and blasting away at the launch gantry and the ground below it with more than 6,000 metric tons of force.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
Just Stop Oil caused huge disruption with supporters climbing motorway gantries on the M25 and the QEII Bridge in Dartford, Kent, as well as blocking main roads in London.
—Press Association, Bloomberg.com, 5 Feb. 2023
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Word History
Middle English gauntree, reshaping (perhaps conformed to tre tree entry 1) of ganter, borrowed from Anglo-French *ganter (Old French —Picard— gantier, Old French chantier), going back to Latin cantērius, canthērius "horse of poor quality, rafter, prop for vines," akin to Greek kanthḗlia "panniers," (ónos) kanthḗlios "pack ass," both loanwords from an undetermined Mediterranean language
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Gantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gantry. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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