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flange
English
Etymology
From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Old French flanche (“flank, side”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /flænd?/
Noun
flange (plural flanges)
- An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
- The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- (role-playing games) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- 1998: Mr MI Pennington, Can the Players be Trusted? on rec.games.frp.live-action [1] [The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line.
- 2007: balor, Changing the metaphysics on Rule 7 [2] 'Oh look, the amulet of flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'
- (vulgar slang) A vulva.
- 2001: tedfat, Flange!!!! in alt.society.nottingham [3]
- I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange. Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her.
- 2003: Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets [4]
- 'God, she's got a tight flange!' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.
- 2001: tedfat, Flange!!!! in alt.society.nottingham [3]
- (rare, humorous) The collective noun for a group of baboons.
- 1980s (first use), Rowan Atkinson - Not the Nine O'clock News
- 2006, Rick Crosier - Getting Away with Murder
- (I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.)
- The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
Synonyms
- (collective noun for a group of baboons) troop, congress
Derived terms
- flange greaser
- flange lubricator
- flange oiler
Translations
Verb
flange (third-person singular simple present flanges, present participle flanging, simple past and past participle flanged)
- (intransitive) To be bent into a flange.
- (transitive) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
- (transitive, sound engineering) To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
Anagrams
- fangle
Danish
Etymology
From English flange.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flan?sj?/, [?fl????]
Noun
flange c (singular definite flangen, plural indefinite flanger)
- flange (external or internal rib or rim)
Inflection
Italian
Alternative forms
- flangie (misspelling)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -and?e
Noun
flange f pl
- plural of flangia
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coupling
English
Etymology
From Middle English couplyng; equivalent to couple +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?pl??/
Noun
coupling (plural couplings)
- Act of joining together to form a couple.
- A device that couples two things together.
- (software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
- Synonym: dependency
- Coordinate term: cohesion
- (electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
- (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
- (sexuality) Sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
Hyponyms
Related terms
- decoupling
Translations
Verb
coupling
- present participle of couple
Further reading
- coupling (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- coupling (physics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- coupling (electronics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- coupling (computer programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Noun
coupling
- Alternative form of couplyng
coupling From the web:
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