Meaning of quay in English
(Definition of quay from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of quay from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
quay | Business English
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The dock area was full of dilapidated warehouses and quays.
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It also hovers at an urban scale including the square, the quay and the lake.
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Being absent is also risky because drivers appointed by the port authorities will remove the cars from the quay.
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These drivers usually work under pressure of time, and their chief interest is to drive the cars from the quay as soon as possible.
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The estimated cost of development (the quay, the promenade, streets and parking places) was about 700,000 pounds.
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Originally built to serve ships, the scale of the quays is unsuitable for recreational pursuits.
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The quays of the basin could remain free of cars, because of the proposed parking garage typology.
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Special attention is to be given to the quays.
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From the eleventh century onwards the owners of the quays progressively extended them into the river, by more than 100 metres in the busiest neighbourhood.
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On the waterfront, a 25 m wide quay promenade, a road and a sidewalk and arches containing various shops would be built.
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A variety of public spaces were used: streets, courts, alleys, squares, quays.
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Items commonly placed under ' other purposes ' ranged widely and included parks and pleasure grounds, cemeteries, artisans' dwelling improvement schemes, public lighting, fire brigades, slaughterhouses and piers, docks and quays.
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Indeed, ships prefer to move to another quay, even to another harbor, rather than to wait in the quay if the quay crane is not instantaneously operational.
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Canals and buildings form urban pattern with townhouses on islands surrounded by water rather than treated as houses on a quay or villas behind a coastline.
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So, the nonproduction or unavailability cost of complex systems such as quay crane (indirect cost) is also important even more than the repairing cost (direct cost).
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Next, the car's front doors are pulled open, two or more persons jump hurriedly inside and drive the car off with spinning wheels from the quay.
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quai [masculine], quai…
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bagan…
der Kai…
kai [masculine-feminine], kai, brygge…
причал, набережна…
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přístaviště, nákladiště…
dermaga…
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bến cảng…
nabrzeże, nadbrzeże, molo…
부두…
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