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Leakproofing item
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gasket
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression. 2 A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB blow ▪ The next morning we found the aircraft had blown a gasket . ▪ They've got her started and she's blown a gasket . ▪ We had blown a gasket and told them of our problem, but we did not declare an emergency. EXAMPLES ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gasket \Gas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.] (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also ...
Usage examples of gasket.
And then the blue bus came rattling and jiggling into La Cima, several hours late because of gasket trouble.
Dev was an O-ring that sealed wahoo in his body, a gasket against the leaking of that emotional oxygen now in shortened supply as a result of his sacking, his break with Suzy, and the Kandakandero curse that precipitated those two events, so then were the Art Girls.
In their innocence they will jam the fan which drives the chlorine, not knowing or caring that this lack of chlorine will end for a time the production on this planet of polychloroprene without which oil-resistant gaskets cannot be manufactured.
Jerry Cruncher hummed to himself tonelessly as he tapped various valves with a small ballpeen hammer, then carefully tightened the gasket retainer on one.
Air leakage from the nose deadlight was cut to an almost bearable minimum by redesigning the assembly with great, ungainly silicone gaskets.
Jack swarmed out after him, his head under the foam, feeling for the gaskets of the forestaysail, snugged down tight under the stay.
Her grasp of detail quickly winnowed the clutter of merchant brigs: the slipshod ones with their sails tied in gaskets, and others run by more rigorous captains, rolling neat at their moorings with yardarms varnished and stripped.
Diego, who at first had seemed moderately pleased to see Torkel, suddenly blew a gasket.
No signs of foul playthe techs say she just blew a gasket for some reasonexcept they found a cigarette on the floor of her chamber.
Some of the staff officers were even betting how long it would take before Big Al finally blew a gasket and dumped on someone.
The other half thinks that, like Nyby, I blew a gasket because of isolation and overwork.
He blew a gasket and called me a cheat and a four-flusher, and a good many other names.
I heard scratchy screeching sounds, and a harsh loony almost-laughter that soared through three or four octaves, and a low ominous burbling noise, as if some hydraulic device was about to blow a gasket.
And once he got a load of her new assistant he would probably blow a gasket.
And her copper daddy will bust a gasket if he learns who your backers are.