flange
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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
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
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
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 bent over and again forced back the leaden flange; and then a shock of surprise and dismay shot through me.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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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
In the far distance, the twin flanges of Husky Stadium rise up over the landscape like a pair of reversed gullwing doors on a DeLorean.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
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
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
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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
People talked knowledgeably about foam versus flanged, domes versus cylinders, bone conduction, how to avoid ear infections, and the importance of bringing noise-absorbing furniture and carpets into your home.
From Slate ● May 13, 2019
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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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 may be done in several ways.
From Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing by Francis C. (Francis Cowles) Frary
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?
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
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
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