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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
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noun
An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: roleplaying games
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noun
The vulva.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, vulgar
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noun
A group of baboons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective, humorous, rare
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Synonyms: troop, congress
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noun
The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
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verb
To be bent into a flange.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: engineering, mechanical-engineering, mechanics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: sound engineering
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noun
a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rim
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Broader terms: projection
History
From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanku (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Across languages
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
