Crossword clues for flange
flange
- Ski-boot binding clip
- Rim Strengthener
- Protecting rim or collar
- Projection used for attaching another object
- Projection on some plumbing
- Projection on some pipes
- Projecting rim of a metal beam
- Projecting flat collar
- Pipe edge
- Part of a rail-car wheel
- I-beam part
- I-beam feature
- Guiding rim
- Boot-to-ski connector
- Projecting part
- Projecting rim on a pipe
- Pipe attachment
- A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
- Wheel rim
- I-beam projection
- Golf club feature
- Pipe collar
- Projecting pipe rim
- Edge of wheel following path round front of garden
- Flat rim on a wheel to keep it on a rail
- Broad flat projecting rim
- Pipe projection
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flange \Flange\ (fl[a^]nj), n. [Prov. E. flange to project, flanch a projection. See Flanch, Flank.]
An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.
--Knight.-
A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
Blind flange, a plate for covering or closing the end of a pipe.
Flange joint, a joint, as that of pipes, where the connecting pieces have flanges by which the parts are bolted together.
--Knight.Flange rail, a rail with a flange on one side, to keep wheels, etc. from running off.
Flange turning, the process of forming a flange on a wrought iron plate by bending and hammering it when hot.
Flange \Flange\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flanged (fl[a^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flanging (fl[a^]n"j[i^]ng).] (Mach.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
Flange \Flange\, v. i. To be bent into a flange.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "a widening or branching out," of unknown origin, perhaps related to Old French flanche "flank, hip, side," fem. of flanc (see flank (n.)). Meaning "projecting rim, etc., used for strength or guidance" is from 1735. As a verb from 1820.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place. 2 The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component. 3 (context gaming English) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees. 4 (context vulgar slang English) A vulv
5 (context rare humorous English) The collective noun for a group of baboons. v
1 (context intransitive English) To be bent into a flange. 2 (context transitive English) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
WordNet
n. a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object [syn: rim]
Wikipedia
A flange is an external or internal ridge, or rim (lip), for strength, as the flange of an iron beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam; or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or on the lens mount of a camera; or for a flange of a rail car or tram wheel. Thus flanged wheels are wheels with a flange on one side to keep the wheels from running off the rails. The term "flange" is also used for a kind of tool used to form flanges. Pipes with flanges can be assembled and disassembled easily.
A flange is a ridge, a rib or rim.
Flange may also refer to:
- Flanging, an audio effect
- Flanging, part of the process of blocking a felt hat
- Flange gasket, a type of gasket made to fit between two sections of pipe that are flared to provide higher surface area
- Marman clamp, a flange connection used in aerospace plumbing
- Vacuum flange, a flange used in connecting vacuum equipment
- Waveguide flange, a flange used in connecting microwave waveguides
- Flange Desire, a character on the Australian ABC comedy show, The Aunty Jack Show
Usage examples of "flange".
Boulders too heavy for anyone but Bigfoot to lift come thudding all around her in the middle of the night, torrents of summer-run steelhead the size of dogs, glowing more than glittering, abandoned logging sites, boilers and stacks and flange gears looming up out of the blackberries.
As another Blackshirt spread a dingy tablecloth across the floor by the chair I was tied to, the one with the bag drew out a thin length of rubber tubing with what appeared to be flanged steel needles at either end, and some metal clips.
I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.
Meldrum went round the Doos, slipping the special silence collars over the flanges on the exhaust pipes.
Although not designed for fleetness, Leader Silverside had nevertheless made good its escape, frantically shucking missiles along the way and taking refuge in a utilities closet inside one of the flange support legs of the Nova Grade laser.
Investigation of the internal stresses, which balance the external forces, shows that most of the material should be arranged in a top flange, boom or chord, subjected to compression, and a bottom flange or chord, subjected to tension.
The horizontal stresses in the flanges are greatest at the centre of a span.
A meter below was a flange, some 20 centimeters wide, running around the tower for the benefit of the window-cleaning machines.
They climbed slippery, wet walls and flanges of black metal, until they came to the lip of the uncovered channel.
Beneath, except for other flanges, was a good 400 meters of sky terminating in some very hard-looking pavement.
Gruder touched a presspad and flanges pushed out in three directions from the head of each piton, anchoring it.
The flanges released their grip and the pitons withdrew into the mounts.
At a signal from his remote, flanges sliced out all along the central core, locking the spike in place.
He wore sword and dagger at one hip and a mace of flanges thrust through his belt at the other.
The mercie bent, and the two of them struggled to shift the plate out of the steel flange inset into the surface of the street.