单词 | limestone |
释义 | limestone (laɪmstoʊn ) Word forms: limestones variable noun [oft NOUN noun] Limestone is a whitish-coloured rock which is used for building and for making cement. ...high limestone cliffs. The local limestone is very porous. ...marine limestones. Image of limestone © michal812, Shutterstock Collocations: limestone floor The open-plan living room, with its heated limestone floor, green-oak beams and stainless steel tie-beams, opens on to a patio and ornamental pond. Times, Sunday Times They tore their clothes on sawgrass, ruined their boots on the uneven limestone floor, and were plagued by mosquitoes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each has a thatched gable roof, limestone floors, three en suite bedrooms and a swimming pool set in the hardwood deck. Times, Sunday Times You can see why the location scouts picked it: set in about 16 acres, the property has 22ft stainless-steel ceilings and limestone floors. Times, Sunday Times The bathrooms are spacious, with limestone floors and one mirrored wall. Times, Sunday Times Chalk downs and limestone hills cannot make any money from sheep-grazing, so have been abandoned to scrub invasion. Times, Sunday Times The road beneath our wheels begins to climb sharply, leaving behind grass-filled valleys, tiny villages and stone barns and giving way to bracken-capped limestone hills. Times, Sunday Times Visit tobacco farms to see leaves drying in the sun, explore nearby cave systems in the limestone hills or take horse-riding tours. Times, Sunday Times It has more than 70 listed buildings dotted among the limestone hills. Times, Sunday Times The limestone hills which form the almost treeless plateau are generally steep but fertile. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I wonder if those rules will remain when he swaps signing our banknotes for fulfilling his dream of running a limestone quarry up north? ST He did years of hard labour in a limestone quarry. Times, Sunday Times We went to the top of a 19thcentury limestone quarry and the views of the ocean and mountain were breathtaking. The Sun It sits right next to the limestone quarry which supplied it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These houses, some of which housed quarry workers, lie close to a 20th-century limestone quarry nearby, now abandoned and filled with water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was prepared out of a limestone slab to reveal details on the left side of the skeleton, many of which are better preserved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The name was derived from the 60 ft natural limestone slab bridge that spans the amphitheater setting of the cavern's entrance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A single limestone slab - tilted at 6.1 - crowns the chamber. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Floors were dug out to a depth of 3ft, underfloor heating added and limestone slabs or oak boards fitted. Times, Sunday Times This was topped with 50 ton limestone slabs forming a pointed roof. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A formidable flora lives on the city's limestone soil. Times, Sunday Times The limestone soil has low nutrient levels; hence smaller species of wild flowers and grasses are able to grow in the absence of larger species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It prefers semi-arid limestone soils in areas free of frost the year round. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The species grows in rocky areas on limestone soils. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It grows in sunny locations in grasslands, on the edges of pinyon-juniper woodlands, on sandy or limestone soils. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The limestone wall surface has punched window openings of horizontal bands and small squares. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It consisted of a 7.5 m dry limestone wall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Originally the tower was surrounded by a limestone wall and outbuildings, forming a courtyard. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The east end wall has a steam heat sign painted on the limestone wall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The southern elevation features a 4 ft limestone wall topped with two rows of limestone blocks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 石灰石 Japanese: 石灰岩 |
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