The Collaborative International Dictionary
Air-tight \Air"-tight`\, a.
So tight as to be impermeable to air or other gases; as, an air-tight cylinder; -- said of containers.
of such close construction as to have little leakage of air in or out; -- said of structures
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so thoroughly convincing as to be insusceptible to doubt; having no apparent counterarguments; -- of arguments or assertions an airtight alibi an airtight argument
Syn: airtight, uncontradictable, undeniable.
Air-tight \Air"-tight`\, n. A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of airtight English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "air-tight".
Because The Shadow, knowing that the master crook played an air-tight game, had suspected Vendible earlier.
The other end of the gallery is closed by means of brattice cloth and paper diaphragms, the entire gallery being made practically air-tight.
The temperature began to drop with remarkable swiftness, although in their air-tight, plastic Earthman-body-suits, neither of the two Saturnian amoeboids could be aware of it just yet.
The stuff covered the helmets and space-suits of Rab Crane and Lalla Dee but could not penetrate through their air-tight glassite suits.
He knew that this bunkroom, like all compartments on the ship, was sealed air-tight and pressure-tight when its oval hatch was dogged, setting in action the emergency oxygen supply.
The delicate scales used by the assayers were inclosed in glass cases intended to be air-tight, and yet some of this dust was so impalpable and so invisibly fine that it would get in, somehow, and impair the accuracy of those scales.
To treat the hide in such a way that it was both impermeable to water and air-tight, they had to prepare a paste over a slow fire, mixing three pounds of wax, one pound of Venetian turpentine, and four ounces of another varnish used by carpenters.