"shaft" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

shaft sustantivo

sustantivo + shaft
Kolokacji: 48
elevator shaft • mine shaft • propeller shaft • drive shaft • shaft of sunlight • ventilation shaft • air shaft • shaft of light • spear shaft • ...
shaft + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 11
shaft drive • shaft horsepower • shaft wall • shaft tomb • shaft grave • ...
shaft + verbo
Kolokacji: 38
shaft pierces • shaft strikes • shaft falls • shaft leading • shaft goes • ...
(1) pierce, penetrate
Kolokacji: 2
1. shaft falls = trzonek odpada shaft falls
2. shaft comes = trzonek przychodzi shaft comes
3. shaft breaks = trzonek psuje się shaft breaks
4. shaft sinks = trzonek tonie shaft sinks
5. shaft descends = trzonek schodzi shaft descends
6. shaft slides = zjeżdżalnie trzonka shaft slides
7. shaft collapses = trzonek zwala się shaft collapses
  • The deep shaft below the Place of Knowledge had collapsed during the great tremor, burying the cavern below and the Cynosure within the cavern under an unimaginable burden of rock.
  • The shaft subsequently collapsed, and the excavation was again abandoned.
  • It had all seemed so sound, so permanent, yet one more quake and the whole shaft could easily collapse in upon itself.
  • The shafts have collapsed or have been filled in.
  • Since then half the shaft collapsed and now all that can be seen is half of a cylindrical shaft through the cliff at the corner of Sullivan and Elliot Streets.
  • Rescue crews managed to get about 300 feet underground before the shaft collapsed.
  • He'd been sitting in her hall for the better part of an hour, and she was as effectively trapped as a coal miner when the shaft collapsed.
  • Under Honduras, a subtrain shaft collapsed and eighteen hundred migratory agricultural workers were simultaneously cremated and dissolved in molten rock.
  • Last summer, the wooden shaft that drives the gristmill collapsed and broke, a victim of rot.
  • The "copper man" display, for example, shows the bones and tools of a Chilean copper miner who was killed when a shaft collapsed on him about 1,500 years ago.
(4) protrude, stick
Kolokacji: 2
(6) open, snap, begin
Kolokacji: 3
(7) rotate, spin
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + shaft
Kolokacji: 7
drive a shaft • shaft is sunk • shaft is made • consist of a shaft • turn the shaft • ...
adjetivo + shaft
Kolokacji: 60
vertical shaft • long shaft • wooden shaft • main shaft • central shaft • ...
preposición + shaft
Kolokacji: 11
with shafts • into the shaft • through the shaft • on the shaft • of the shaft • ...

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