mountaineer
pronunciation
How to pronounce mountaineer in British English:
UK [ˌmaʊntəˈnɪə(r)]
How to pronounce mountaineer in American English:
US [ˌmaʊntnˈɪr]
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- Noun:
- someone who climbs mountains
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- Verb:
- climb mountains for pleasure as a sport
Word Origin
- mountaineer (n.)
- c. 1600, "dweller in mountains," from mountain + -eer. Verb meaning "to be a mountain-climber" is from 1803.
Example
- 1. American electric power 's carbon dioxide capture facility at the mountaineer plant from the outside .
- 2. But mountaineer is the world 's first electricity plant to capture and store carbon dioxide .
- 3. His wife , cecilie skog , also an accomplished mountaineer , survived , but she has vowed not to return .
- 4. So far so good for the mountaineer project , which cost american electric power more than $ 70 million to build .
- 5. A relatively small unit attached to the smokestack at the mountaineer power plant in west virginia is capturing some 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide the coal-fired plant would otherwise belch into the sky .