flange

I was looking at a toilet flange buried beneath two layers of laminate flooring!

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

It is supposed to be screwed to the floor and it also has slots that accept brass bolts used to connect the toilet to the flange.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

The flange flares out and a flat surface is at the top.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Now, each time the toilet was flushed, water splashed around under the toilet, and some leaked out around the toilet flange.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

“The side flange was banged away to make room for a D-6.”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

Beneath the car, unseen, are four flanged wheels of smaller diameter than the car’s tires.

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

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

To the first belong flanging and welding, to the latter generally all the other operations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

This flanging of the upper end or tail ensures the arrow spinning rapidly as it falls through the air, and at the same times preserves its vertical position during its descent.

From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

This loomed twenty feet aloft, flanging out mushroom-fashion over the lower story, which presented a solid base.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman