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Qué (quién) es Quonset - definición

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Quonset Business Park; Quonset (disambiguation)

Quonset         
['kw?ns?t]
(also Quonset hut)
¦ noun N. Amer. trademark a prefabricated building with a semi-cylindrical corrugated roof.
Origin
Second World War: named after Quonset Point, Rhode Island, where such huts were first made.
Quonset Point         
  • Quonset Point in the 1960s from an aerial shot
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PENINSULA IN RHODE ISLAND
Quonset Point, Rhode Island; Quonset Point, R.I.; Quonset Point, RI; Quonset Point Rhode Island; Camp Dyer; Quonset, Rhode Island
Quonset Point (), also known simply as Quonset, is a small peninsula in Narragansett Bay in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Its name is widely known from the Quonset hut, which was first manufactured there.
Quonset hut         
  • A Quonset Hut in Dade City Florida
  • Quonset hut adapted for commercial use in [[Westland, Michigan]]
  • A Quonset hut being put in place at the 598th Engineer Base Depot in Japan, post-[[World War II]]
LIGHTWEIGHT PREFABRICATED STRUCTURE
Quonset shed; Quansit; Quansit hut; Kwanzit hut; Kwanzaa hut; Kwansit hut; Quonset Hut; Cwanzit hut
A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semi cylindrical cross-section. The design was developed in the United States, based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I.

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Quonset
Ejemplos de uso de Quonset
1. Last year, 58 bears were housed in the triple Quonset jail.
2. RAJ owns the property on the Canadian side of the border where the entrance to the tunnel is hidden under a Quonset hut.
3. It ran from the living room of a home on the U.S. side to a boarded–up Quonset hut on the Canadian side.
4. Cooped up in the snow–shrouded Quonset hut learning about physics and steering techniques, however, isn‘t the same as maneuvering on silica–smooth ice.
5. Just outside, motorists zooming by on a two–lane highway have no idea of the drama playing out in the nondescript two–story building and Quonset huts that make up the Marine Animal Lifeline compound.