flange
To be bent into a flangeTo be bent into a flange.
» Maybe you could use a flange on it?
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3 senses(intransitive)To be bent into a flange.
(transitive)To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
(transitive)To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
Examples
2 sentencesMaybe you could use a flange on it?
Even with no flanges, conical wheels self-stabilize on rails.
Origin
From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle FrenchFrom dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanku (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.
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Forms
flanges, flanging, flanged, flangedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.