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Angular
adjective · 78% connection
Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Angulation
noun · 78% connection
A making angular; angular formation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Anomaly
noun · 78% connection
The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Backlash
noun · 78% connection
The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Brace
noun · 78% connection
A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Cam
noun · 78% connection
A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Chauffer
noun · 78% connection
A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Coamings
n. pl. · 78% connection
Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Cross
noun · 78% connection
A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Damper
noun · 78% connection
That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or reg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Elbow
noun · 78% connection
Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Follower
noun · 78% connection
Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Halve
verb · 78% connection
To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Hame
noun · 78% connection
One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted up…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Hematite
noun · 78% connection
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Interosculant
adjective · 78% connection
Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
Iron
noun · 78% connection
The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pipe, sheet, iron, length, angular.
