flange
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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
It’s mission-critical for the flange to be installed on top of the finished floor.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
He had installed the toilet flange directly on top of the subfloor of the condo.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
I was looking at a toilet flange buried beneath two layers of laminate flooring!
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
He had constructed a flange that ran an inch past the length of the fin on both ends and bent it to match the curve of the casement.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
One can join them using special flanges, much like ordinary pipes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Civil Engineering
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