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FLANGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flange mean?
• FLANGE (noun)
The noun FLANGE has 1 sense:
1. a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
Familiarity information: FLANGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
flange; rim
Hypernyms ("flange" is a kind of...):
projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)
Context examples
Van Helsing forced back the leaden flange, and we all looked in and recoiled. The coffin was empty!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Vintana's skull has an unusual shape, with deep, huge eye sockets, and long, scimitar-shaped flanges for attachment of massive chewing muscles.
(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)
He bent over and again forced back the leaden flange; and then a shock of surprise and dismay shot through me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Taking the edge of the loose flange, he bent it back towards the foot of the coffin, and holding up the candle into the aperture, motioned to me to look.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The shovel fell from my hand across the box, and as I pulled it away the flange of the blade caught the edge of the lid which fell over again, and hid the horrid thing from my sight.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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