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acidproof: garment which provides protection against intense exposure to acid vapours or splashes(1)
Category: Management in the public and private sector
anteroom: a room giving access to several storage rooms
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
bare-root: setting out young trees with their roots freed from the soil in which they had ramified
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
bare-rooted: setting out young trees with their roots freed from the soil in which they had ramified
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
beetroot: a beet,Beta vulgaris,with an edible spherical dark red root
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
bill-to-room: a billing option associated with operator assisted calls that allows the calling party to bill a call to their hotel room
Category: News-systems and communications
boardroom: a room that is designated for meetings of a board, usu. contains a large conference table.
Category: General
brooch: a fastening device often of precious metal..
Category: Various industries and crafts
brood: progeny of the same female or hermaphrodite produced within a certain period,e.g.a clutch of birds`eggs,bee brood of a certain type,season or year
Category: Botany and zoology
brooder: heated appliance,used for rearing young chicks
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
brook: a small shallowstream usually in continuous flow in a somewhat turbulent manner
Category: The cosmos
brook: A small natural watercourse.
Category: The cosmos
broom: fibre from the bast of the spanish broom (spartium junceum) or common broom (cytisus scoparius)
Category: Various industries and crafts
broome: a type of gate in which the roller paths are in a plane relatively inclined to the sealing faces thus allowing the gate to move downstream on to its seat as it reaches in closed position
Category: Building industry
broomrape: a parasite occuring chiefly in the blue-grass region of Kentucky on farms on which hemp has been grown.It attaches itself to the roots of hemp,tobacco and other plants.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
broomroot: roots of certain graminaceous plants, particularly those of the Epicampes family
Category: Botany and zoology
cameroonian: inhabitant of Cameroon
Category: The cosmos
chartroom: A room on or near the bridge provided with the necessary fittings and furniture for the handling and stowage of charts and where the chronometers are placed.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
cloakroom: Room in which outer garments may be left temporarily.
Category: General
clubroot: a disease of brassica crops occurring on acid soils and caused by a 'saline fungus' which infects the soil.Irregular swellings appear on the roots and later decay sets in
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
crook: a defect in logs,poles or piling,consisting of an abrupt curvature
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
crooke: an early form of flow discharge tube.
Category: Physics
Crookes: an early form of flow discharge tube.
Category: Physics
dampproofing: A treatment of concrete or mortar to retard the passage or absorption of water,or water vapor
Category: Management in the public and private sector
drip-proof: applied to a machine so constructed that liquid or solid particles falling vertically or at a specified small angle on it cannot cause interference with satisfactory operation
Category: Electrical engineering and energy
droop: the ratio of the quotient of the change in frequency AF and the normal frequency FN,to the quotient of the change in nominal power p-n of the rotating machines
Category: Electrical engineering and energy
droop: a common occurrence in time-proportional controllers
Category: Electrical engineering and energy
dustproof: a term applied to a machine so constructed that the entry of dust of a specified fineness or nature cannot cause interference with the satisfactory operation of the machine
Category: Electrical engineering and energy
electrooptical: a system making use of photoelectric devices
Category: News-systems and communications
fireproof: the quality of a structure or object to resist fire either by its own nature or imparted to it by treatment with retardants so as to reduce the danger of fire starting or spreading
Category: Management in the public and private sector
fireproof: has been officially discontinued in NFPA publications as misleading,as no material is immune to the effects of fire of sufficient intensity and duration,although fireproof popularly used(BTM)
Category: Technical and industry in general
fireproof: resistant to destruction by fire; totally or almost totally unburnable; incombustible....fire-resistant
Category: Various industries and crafts
fireproofing: a method of treating fuels,timber etc.with fire retardants so as to reduce the danger of fires starting or spreading
Category: Management in the public and private sector
flameproof: applied to a machine which has an enclosure that will withstand,without injury,any explosion of the prescribed inflammable gas that may occur within it under practical conditions of operation within the rating of the machine,and recognised overloads,if any,associated therewith,and will prevent the transmission of flame such as will ignite the prescribed inflammable gas which may be present in the surrounding atmosphere
Category: Electrical engineering and energy
flameproof: The property of a material or assemblage not to burst into flames during a laps of time in a fire
Category: Management in the public and private sector
flameproof: Satisfying the appropriate regulations for use in situations where there is a risk of explosions. (CEI Publ. 50 (1970))
Category: Management in the public and private sector
flameproof: resistant to the action of flame: not burning on contact with flame...
Category: Management in the public and private sector
foolproof: any equipment, structure or system provided with a safety device that protects it against faulty calculation, accident, foul play or clumsy handling
Category: Management in the public and private sector
foolproof: provided with safety devices against accidents,or against damage to the machine,by clumsy handling
Category: Mechanical engineering
greaseproof: paper free from mechanical pulp,having a high resistance to penetration by grease or fats
Category: Various industries and crafts
greaseproof: grease-resistant paper manufactured from chemical pulp,the resistance to grease being achieved by extensive beating
Category: Various industries and crafts
greaseproofness: the property of a paper or board of being able to resist the penetration of grease or oil
Category: Various industries and crafts
groom: the cat complicates the treating of skin problems because it is continually grooming its skin.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
grooming: in necessary as well to rid the coat of dust and dirt and any loose hairs that may be licked down and could cause furball.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
groove: the track inscribed in a record by the cutting or embossing stylus during mechanical recording, including undulations or modulations caused by the vibration of the stylus
Category: Mechanical engineering
groove: space between two adjacent tread ribs
Category: Various industries and crafts
groove: edge for holding the glass in place
Category: Various industries and crafts
groove: whole of the splines evenly distributed on the circumference of the shaft or bore
Category: Transport
groove: a track in the form of a spiral with or without modulation,inscribed or moulded in the surface of a disk
Category: Electrical engineering and energy
groove: the opening provided for a groove weld
Category: The chemical industry
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