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Car frame
Answer for the clue "Car frame ", 7 letters:
chassis
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body , physical body , material body , soma , build , figure , physique , anatomy ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chassis \Chas"sis\, n. [F. ch[^a]ssis.] (Mil.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage .] The under part of an automobile or other motor vehicle, consisting ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"base frame of an automobile," 1903, American English; earlier "window frame" (1660s), from French châssis "frame," Old French chassiz (13c.) "frame, framework, setting," from chasse "case, box, eye socket, snail's shell, setting (of a jewel)," from Latin ...
Usage examples of chassis.
The brain of a human fetus also develops from the inside out, and, roughly speaking, runs through the sequence: neural chassis, R-complex, limbic system and neocortex.
This keeps the chassis set and maintains the downforce or tire patch while I aim for the apex area and increases the tire patch for cornering.
Robocop 3 director Fred Dekker and his co-writer, Frank Miller, seemed not to understand anything about the efficacious use of humor in such a gimmicky action flick, but, by gum, they oiled up that rusty chassis and tried to make it run one more time anyway!
This combination of spinal cord, hindbrain and midbrain MacLean calls the neural chassis.
The end of the slow match was still lashed to one of the spokes, and the rest of the long fuse ran back under the chassis, under the heaps of the Nguni corpses to the mound on which Manatasee stood.
The bodies and chassis had been built by Schreiner the stately high cupola in which the open mounting for the Maxim machine gun now glared like an empty eye-socket, the square sloping platform of the engine housing, with its heavy armour plate and the neat rows of rivets and the steel shutters that could be closed to protect the radiator against incoming enemy fire.
The screws on the chassis started to wind down into the hard-packed sand with a strident metallic whine.
The heavy chassis rocked from side to side, and in the rearview mirror Hazen could see two rows of corn whipsawing in his wake.
Hazel brought up her projectile weapon and opened fire, but the bullets rebounded harmlessly from the steel chassis under the flesh covering.
The truck sideswiped a tree stump, and the bumper ripped off from the chassis, the impact slamming his head against the roof.
There are other men below hauling the engine in, as a chassis rolls out to meet it.
A man sends it dropping down onto a chassis rolling out to meet it, as three other workers remove a car body from the oven, its black finish baked to a shine in which they can see their own faces, and they recognize themselves, momentarily, before they drop the body onto the chassis rolling out to meet it.
Sandcat had a low-slung, blunt-lined chassis supported by a pair of flat, retractable tracks.
Its blocky, armored chassis was very unprepossessing, but it was a bit more maneuverable than the Sandcat on the mountain road.
Then they thrust sturdy wooden pallets under the chassis of the car and fixed the heavy hemp lines.