flange

Noun

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. An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
4. (slang, vulgar) The vulva.
5. (collective, humorous, rare) A group of baboons.
6. The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To be bent into a flange.
2. (transitive) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
3. (transitive) To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flænd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“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.

Synonyms

rim

joint

jointing

lip

ledge

join

collar

diverge

edge

flaring

hem

lapel

lid

marge

margin

nosing

protrusion

reeding

seam

set-off

side

spread

teat

flanch

widen out

flanged edge

rim collar

shaft collar

convex edge

Flg flange

unset rim

beading

nid

border

brim

brink

brow

bump

caster

Translations

Flansch

flangia

bride

pestaña

reborde

brida

flens

collerette

flange

collet

joint

Bund

vorell

bord

yaka