Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mount for a traveling crane consisting of a large archlike or bridgelike frame designed to move along a set of tracks.
- n. A similar spanning frame supporting a group of railway signals over several tracks.
- n. Aerospace A massive vertical frame structure used in assembling or servicing a rocket, especially at a launch site.
- n. A support for a barrel lying on its side.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as gauntree.
Wiktionary
- n. A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- n. A supporting framework for a barrel.
- n. astronautics A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- n. medical imaging A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See gauntree.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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.
Etymologies
- French chantier, Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius trellis, sort of frame. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English ganter, gauntre, wooden stand for barrels, from Old North French gantier, wooden frame, from Latin canthērius, from Greek kanthēlios, pack ass, from kanthēlia, panniers at the side of a pack-saddle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For this scenario, Siplace offers short-term gantry rentals for up to four months, which can be renewed if necessary.”
“A difference with the Spaceport's installation will be the addition of a mobile gantry, which is to be employed for payload integration with the Soyuz erected in its vertical position.”
“A further contributing factor is the fact that port equipment such as gantry cranes and straddle carriers, are not readily available in the market and most of the equipment is manufactured overseas on order and therefore generally has a long lead time (20 to 24 months).”
“Proposals for an open-road "gantry" tolling system on I-80 are due Monday, for example.”
“gantry" is applied to the movable scaffold or frame, which in this case rests upon a pair of rails twenty-three feet apart, one of them being close to the edge of the quay.”
“At 8 p.m., teams swung open the 13-story rotating gantry at launch pad 39A to expose Discovery for fueling and flight Thursday.”
“Nearby, the Chinese-built deepwater port, with its neat angles, spanking-new gantry cranes, and other cargo-handling equipment, appeared charged with expectation, even as the complex stood silent and empty against the horizon, waiting for decisions from Islamabad.”
“Those who look up will see the first highway-speed electronic toll gantry in the D.C. region.”
The Washington Post: Q&A on Maryland's Intercounty Connector
“For these two, the personal can never be untangled from the political since every move they make is overshadowed by the threat of Rome – literally, in Peter McKintosh's soaring set with its towering stone walls, iron girders, glass walls and overhanging gantry looming above and around the glittering oriental lamps and sumptuous fabrics of the Egyptian court.”
“There's no sign to tell drivers this, but Smathers has it right: It's one of those high things, a brown gantry that will either detect a driver's E-ZPass transponder or take a picture of the license plate so a bill can be mailed, based on the time at the gantry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gantry’.
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medtech
terms found in documentation for implantable medical devices and IVD equip
distal, luer, stopcock, lumen, tortuosity, anneal, flouroscopy, radiopaque, distractor, toeing, tang, endoprosthesis and 173 more...
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gynaecology, gynaecomania, gyromancy, gyrograph, gyve, gyrus, gyron, gynaecocracy, gyrose, gynics, gutturotetany, gymnophobia and 439 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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Storm Thief
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, Storm Thief.
chit, lean-to, panopticon, hobnail, periscope, shanty, flout, racket, lathe, dynamo, kiln, gurn and 44 more...
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Mr. Wrenn, I presume
Names from Sinclair Lewis
babbitt, wrenn, dodsworth, vickers, gantry, planish, timberlane, arrowsmith, windrip, edgeways, gimmitch, doremus and 15 more...
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bilby Nothing like a bit of ass in your etymology. Jan 4, 2013
asativum Also the last name of Elmer Gantry, title character of the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Jan 19, 2008