power plant
143
2.9
- noun
- /ˈpaʊər plænt/
- US
:
central eléctrica
- The Indian Point power plant in New York draws cooling water from the Hudson River.
- nuclear power plant
- coal-fired power plant
- power plants produce electricity
They build bridges and power plants and schools.
- They build bridges and power plants and schools.
- I don't believe any other power plants have licenses of that sort.
- So in that solar thermal power plant, there's clearly a lot of energy.
- And if you think right now just that alone, we're closing power plants because of coal, right?
- We talking, I mean, we're talking everything from power lines to power plants to Transformers.
- But the NIF itself is not a power plant.
- I know because we we keep closing power plants.
- It gave us generators, it gave us power plants.
- That's the same thing we're trying to do here on Earth in fusion power plants.
- This means you can extract more energy out of power plants than we currently do in almost all cases.
- And then it went into like factories, you know, factories had to have their own power plant.
Examples
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The new power plant will provide electricity to thousands of homes in the region.
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However, the power plant is not limited to just coal.
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It's too expensive and the power plants take too long to build.
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And behind them, we have two power plant workers.
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I just need to get this guy to the power plant.
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Students can learn about the number of nuclear power plants in operation and their capacity.
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I have heard that nuclear power plants are hard to keep working properly.
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Power plants were unable to produce enough energy.
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The result of making repairs and refueling the power plants is that they are not always in operation.
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Seven World Trade Centers construction originally was very unusual because it was built over a power plant, a Con Edison power plant.
Synonyms
981
4.8
A building or group of buildings where goods are made
23
3.2
A building where electricity is made for a town or area
4
4.7
A building where electricity is made for homes and businesses
1
3.8
A place where electricity is made and sent to homes and businesses
A place with tall machines that use wind to make electricity
How Big
- US
143
2.9
- Specialized
19
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a facility that generates electricity' is directly and transparently derivable from 'power' (electrical energy) + 'plant' (an industrial building or complex). This noun–noun compound follows a common compositional pattern and is cross-linguistically recognizable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The compound power plant puts together power, 'energy', and plant, 'a place that makes things'. So it paints an easy picture: a 'plant' that makes 'power', and today it means a building where electricity is produced for people.