different between flask vs flange

English

Etymology

From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flasc? (“bottle”); from Frankish *flasko, *flaska; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flask? (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche), from Proto-Indo-European *plo?-sk? (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókš?ias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët).

Sense 2 from Italian fiasco and sense 3 from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fläsk, IPA^(key): /fl??sk/
• enPR: fl?sk, IPA^(key): /flæsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

flask (plural flasks)

1. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
2. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
3. (sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
4. (engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
5. A bed in a gun carriage.

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Translations

Verb

flask (third-person singular simple present flasks, present participle flasking, simple past and past participle flasked)

1. (dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.

Anagrams

• falks, flaks

Danish

Verb

flask

1. imperative of flaske

Dutch

Etymology

From French flasque (“flask”). Doublette with (native) fles (“bottle”), (through French) flacon (“flagon”) and (through Italian) fiasco (“fiasco”).

Noun

flask f (plural flasken, diminutive flaskje n)

1. flask

Middle English

Alternative forms

• flaske

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman flascon, from Frankish *flaska, from Proto-Germanic *flask?. Also reinforced by existing Old English flasce, also from Proto-Germanic *flask?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flask(?)/

Noun

flask (plural flaskes)

1. (rare) A small barrel for beer storage.
2. (rare) A container for the storage of garments.

Descendants

• English: flask
• Scots: flask, flas

References

• “flask, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• fl?sk

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *flaiski. Cognates include Old English fl?s? and Old Saxon fl?sk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fla?sk/

Noun

fl?sk n

1. flesh

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Mooring: flååsch

• Saterland Frisian: Flaask

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

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)

1. An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
2. The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
3. (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.'
4. (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.

5. (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.)

6. 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)

1. (intransitive) To be bent into a flange.
2. (transitive) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
3. (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)

1. flange (external or internal rib or rim)

Inflection

Italian

Alternative forms

• flangie (misspelling)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -and?e

Noun

flange f pl

1. plural of flangia