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flange

[flanj] / flændʒ /


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The solution provides a new clamp nut with a raised flange on the upper edge where safety wire is attached between the clamp nut and a bolt on the actuator barrel.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Wax gaskets placed on this flange provide the all-important seal between the underside of the toilet and the flange.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

A toilet flange is a special plumbing fitting that is permanently attached to the drain pipe under the toilet.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

It’s mission-critical for the flange to be installed on top of the finished floor.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

The kestrel sailed into view and took up station, the black-edged flange of its tail bent down and its pointed wings beating rapidly as it searched the down below.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Bright orange robotic arms fastened bolts onto engine manifolds, pipe flanges and pump housings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Reef life thrives on hyperbolism, so to speak; the curvy surface structure of coral maximizes nutrient intake, and nudibranchs propel through water with frilly flanges.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

The flanges and their join to the carbon fibre will be central to the investigation now under way with US and Canadian authorities.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023

I oversaw the plumber install the correct amount of wax rings on top of the toilet flanges and reset the toilets correctly.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

To the west, between two of the flanges of the tree that spread out to be roots, was a cavity.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

"This trend uses modern-made pieces but has traditional design elements and materials. Think skirted, flanged, wingbacked, or rolled seating. For materials, this means more linen, mohair, natural stone and wood," DelMonico adds.

From Fox News ● Mar. 3, 2022

The latest is the Series 18, a heel-shafted, flanged blade with a cavity sole and high density tungsten in the extreme heel and toe.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 21, 2020

And also in Wilson, whose music derives first of all from black doo-wop, and whose voice on this track is gradually supplanted by a flanged synthesizer, as if being written over by Monáe’s creativity.

From Slate ● May 1, 2018

It makes contact with a power rail, the flanged wheels roll onto rails of a track, and your car accelerates at a controlled rate of 0.3g.

From The Verge ● Feb. 24, 2016

Between the sight lines of my raised knees his ear appeared, an amazing organ all its own, whorled and flanged, translucent in the bright lights.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He removed the Cap that had rested on his flanging Ears and sat at the Table with the Advance Agent and the English Tourist.

From More Fables by George Ade

If the diameter of this tube should be much greater than that of the small tube, the latter may be enlarged with a carbon or a flanging tool.

From Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing by Francis C. (Francis Cowles) Frary

When flanging a tube, it is held and rotated with the left hand as above described, while the right hand holds the flanging tool.

From Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing by Francis C. (Francis Cowles) Frary

This flanging may be done in several ways.

From Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing by Francis C. (Francis Cowles) Frary

The flanging arms of the V, forced in a place too narrow, had caught between heavy stubs.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White


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