Flange vs Gasket - What's the difference?
flange | gasket |
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.
(gaming) 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
* 2007:' balor, ''Changing the metaphysics'' on Rule 7 [http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic28357-44-2.aspx] 'Oh look , the amulet of ' flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'
A vulva.
* 2001:' tedfat, '''''Flange !!!! in alt.society.nottingham [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.nottingham/browse_thread/thread/7d1653d74a6ac61b/4fdf1b47e3e1bb70?lnk=st&q=%22her+flange%22&rnum=9&hl=en#4fdf1b47e3e1bb70]
* 2003: Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1562013920&id=c4hY8RgKlGgC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=flange+fuck&sig=8rlmxhjFq0jxtxQ_cW333gA5u5Q&hl=en]
(rare, humorous) The collective noun for a group of baboons.
* 2006 , Rick Crosier -
To be bent into a flange.
To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.
Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.
As nouns the difference between flange and gasket
is that flange is an external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place while gasket is any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.As a verb flange
is to be bent into a flange.flange
English
(wikipedia flange)Noun
(en noun)[The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [playerscan't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just ' flange it back to the original plot line.
- 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.
- 'God, she's got a tight flange !' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.
Getting Away with Murder
- (I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.)