The water came up to the bridge girder in a second.
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Girder
//ˈɡɜːdə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "girder" (4 found)
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11 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 34 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- tra noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στρωτήρ noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Bulgarian
1 entries- трегер noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Czech
2 entries- nosník noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- trám noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Dutch
2 entries- draagbalk noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- dwarsbalk noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Finnish
3 entries- kannatinpalkki noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- niskapalkki noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- palkki noun (main horizontal support in a building)
French
1 entries- poutrelle noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Galician
2 entries- trabe noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- viga noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Georgian
3 entries- დირე noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- კოჭი noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- წამწე noun (main horizontal support in a building)
German
4 entries- Balken noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- Binder noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- Tragbalken noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- Träger noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Indonesian
2 entries- gelagar noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- penopang noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Irish
2 entries- cearchaill noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- giarsa noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Italian
2 entries- putrella noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- trave noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Japanese
2 entries- 桁 noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- 梁 noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Latin
1 entries- trabs noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Livonian
1 entries- zīedõz noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Macedonian
1 entries- носач noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Malay
2 entries- galang noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- gelegar noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Māori
1 entries- kurupae noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Norwegian
2 entries- bærebjelke noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- drager noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- دیرك noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- مرتك noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Persian
2 entries- شاهتیر noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- فرسب noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Polish
2 entries- belka noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- dźwigar noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Portuguese
2 entries- trave noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- viga noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Romanian
2 entries- bârnă noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- grindă noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Russian
1 entries- ба́лка noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- greda noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- греда noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Slovak
1 entries- nosník noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Slovene
2 entries- nosilec noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- tram noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Spanish
2 entries- jácena noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- viga noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Swedish
3 entries- balk noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- bindbjälke noun (main horizontal support in a building)
- bärbjälke noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Tagalog
1 entries- kahab-an noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Turkish
1 entries- kiriş noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Volapük
1 entries- stütabem noun (main horizontal support in a building)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The girder could not support such a heavy weight.
Source: tatoeba (9948777)
The girder is a 15 meter long, 13 metric ton framework that is packed with several kilometers of tubing and wiring to support cooling, power, and data relay equipment for future research laboratories.
Source: tatoeba (11102761)
Space station ground controllers will test their ability to command a small flatcar to roll along tracks on a 13-meter girder that space shuttle Atlantis astronauts mounted on the station last week.
Source: tatoeba (11770020)
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