| 单词 | oil rig |
| 释义 | oil rig (once / 13192 pages) n An oil rig is a large machine that's used for drilling deep holes in the earth so that oil can be extracted. There are both on-shore and off-shore oil rigs. An oil rig is almost always an enormous, complex structure that can drill miles into the ground to access oil. Some oil rigs are semi-permanent and include housing for the crews that work there. Smaller oil rigs are often mobile, and are usually moved once the drilling is finished so that another type of rig can begin to extract oil. A rig can be a truck, bus, well-drilling apparatus, or even a horse-drawn carriage. WORD FAMILYoil rig: oil rigs USAGE EXAMPLESThis year’s “Deepwater Horizon” was about a fatal 2010 disaster involving the collapse of an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) Hedge fund executives were charged Monday in a $1-billion fraud case linked to a deadly oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) One afternoon, Burtynsky decided to photograph two disused oil rigs off Lagos Island. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) n rig used in drilling for oil or gas Syn|Hypo|Hyper drill rig, drilling rig, oilrig drilling platform, offshore rig drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially rig gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise |
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