Flanges is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLANGES in dictionary:

VERB:
• FLANGE, to provide with a protecting rim
NOUN:
• a projecting flat rim, collar, or rib on an object, serving for strengthening or attachment or (on a wheel) for maintaining position on a rail

Words related to FLANGES

flange10 flanged12 flanging13

How to use FLANGES in a sentence

• The flanges at the edges of engine beams are invariably made too small.
• In side lever marine engines the attachments of the cylinder to the diagonal stay are generally made of too small an area, and the flanges are made too thick.
• In some cases the halves of the eccentric are bolted together by means of flanges, which is, perhaps, the preferable practice.
• There are two sets of arms to the wheel, which converge to a cast iron centre, formed like a short pipe with large flanges, to which the arms are affixed.
• The flanges are 12 inches asunder at the outer edge, and they partake of the converging direction of the arms.
• Those blocks are of cast iron 6 inches deep, 11 inches wide, and 14 inches long, and they are formed with flanges 1 inch thick on the inner sides of the blocks.
• It is secured at the ends to the discs by flanges 18 inches diameter, and 2 inches thick.
• The bolt holes in the blade flanges allow an adjustment of pitch, but in each case the blades were set as nearly as possible at the pitch at which they were cast.
• It will be observed that the flanges of the blades are sunk into the boss, and that the bolts are sunk into the flanges.
• This method of construction is a little more expensive than exposed flanges and bolts, which, however, render the boss a huge churn.
• In order to reduce the wear of the leading flanges, a jet of steam from the exhaust is directed against the outer side of each wheel.
• Great buttresses, or flanges, jutted out from their trunks at the base, and they bore big hard nuts or fruits which stood erect at the ends of the branches.
• The function of the flanges is to resist a horizontal tension and compression distributed practically uniformly on their cross sections.
• The horizontal stresses in the flanges are greatest at the centre of a span.
• In the most numerous cases the flanges or chords are parallel.
• The immense muscular power of this tail, with its broad flanges, arises from the flesh of the body, terminating in long cords of tendon, running to the tip.
• These pipes were then screwed into pipe flanges that served as a base.
• When these flanges were tightly screwed on the casting and faced off smooth the whole presented the appearance of a large spool.
• The diaphragm is placed between the flanges on the spool and the end D that was sawed off.
• The fifth wheel consists of two small flanges working on the face surfaces.
• By this means the rain was prevented from penetrating the crevice between the flanges.
• The latter is raised and lowered as in the roving frame by a builder motion, so that the yarn may be distributed over the full range between the ends or flanges.
• The distance between the flanges of the bobbin is, obviously, a fixed one in any one machine, and the diameter over the yarn is limited.
• Two other paths are at this time provided through the now horizontal armature flanges which serve almost to connect the two pole pieces.
• Instead of flanges, wire bands have been used, their lapping ends secured by solder.

Similar words containing FLANGE without suffix s

flange10 flanged12 flanger11 flangers12 flangeless14

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