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n. A protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object.

n. An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.

n. The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.

n. An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.

n. A vulva.

n. The collective noun for a group of baboons.

v. To be bent into a flange.

n. An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.

n. A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.

v. To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.

verb-intransitive. To be bent into a flange.

n. A projecting edge, rim, or rib on any object, as the rims by which cast-iron pipes are connected together, or the marginal projections on the tires of railroad-car wheels to keep them on the rails.

n. A strengthening rib: as, the flange of a fish-bellied rail or girder.

n. A plate placed over the end of a pipe or cylinder to close it partly or wholly.

To project out.

To be bent into a flange; take the form of a flange.

To furnish with a flange; make a flange on.

n. a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object

"Last week, as you remember, we removed the stub of the riser pipe and we put in what we call a flange spool."

flanged    flanges    flanging   

projection   

backing-up flange    blank flange    blind flange   

car wheel   

flanged    flanging   

flanch    rib    rip    feather    collet    congress   

Tange    gange    phalange   

lug    plunger    axle    latch    clamp    fuselage    spacer    cylinder    nozzle    rotor