flange
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A 24-by-6-inch piece broke from the flange of one structural girder, Pihlstrom said.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023
It’s mission-critical for the flange to be installed on top of the finished floor.
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
To mitigate risk of contamination, glove-up, flip up the flange, and scrub off the slime with grease-cutting dish soap or other cleaning solution.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
He climbed it and in so doing opened the palm wound he’d incurred banging against the battery well’s metal flange with Kabuo Miyamoto’s fishing gaff.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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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
Still, Kenmore created a new replacement part, doubling the thickness and adding flanges to make installation more flexible.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
If there are, investigators will want to examine them for any evidence of the carbon layers beginning to separate - a process known as delamination - especially at the point where they joined the flanges.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
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"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
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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
Shows all types of boilers used; gives details of construction; practical facts, such as life of riveting, punches and dies; work done per day, allowance for bending and flanging sheets and other data.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Fire-door opening formed by flanging and riveting together the inner and outer sheets.
From Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works by Matthew Baird
The hot color flooded his face, his freckles were drowned in a red sea, his flanging ears were crimson.
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
The removal of his velvet hat disclosed wide and flanging ears which gave his face an expression of quaint comedy, now at variance with his aghast and solemn look.
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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