AIR-TIGHT

Definitions: AIR-TIGHT

AIR-TIGHT

Adjective

1. So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.

Noun

1. A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AIR-TIGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Crosswords: AIR-TIGHT

Air-Tight (1931)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dr. Robert H. Huffaker is testing what will be an air-tight cabinet, by introducing Freon gas, and using a GE Halogen gas detector in order to detect any leakage of the contained gas.Credit: CDC.

The iron lung encased the thoracic cavity externally in an air-tight chamber. The chamber was used to create a negative pressure around the thoracic cavity, thereby causing air to rush into the lungs to equalize intrapulmonary pressure.Credit: CDC.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Chinese 

不漏�" (airtight). (various references)

Czech

vzduchotìsný (airtight). (various references)

Danish

tryktæt (resistant to pressure), tryksikker (resistant to pressure), trykfast (resistant to pressure), lufttæt (airtight, frost resistant plastic cover, sealed), hermetisk (airtight, hermetic, sealed). (various references)

Dutch

luchtdicht (airtight, sealed), drukvast (resistant to pressure). (various references)

Finnish

paineenkestävä (resistant to pressure). (various references)

French

résistant � la pression, hermétique (airstrip, airtight), étanche � l'air. (various references)

German

Luftundurchlässigkeit (sealed), Luftdicht (air tight, airtight, hermetic, hermetical, sealed), hermetisch (airtight, hermetic, hermetical, hermetically, sealed), druckfest (resistant to pressure). (various references)

Greek 

στεγανόσ, ερμητικόσ (hermetic), ερμητικά κλειστός (sealed), ανθεκτικός στην πίεση (resistant to pressure), αεροστεγήσ, αεροστεγής (airtight, gas proof, gas tight, resistant to pressure, sealed). (various references)

Italian

ermetico (abstruse, dark, difficult to understand, hermetic, hermetical, obscure, obscurely, opaque, recondite, sealed, tight). (various references)

Korean 

완벽한 (airtight, spotless). (various references)

Pig Latin

air-tightay

Portuguese

resistente � pressão (resistant to pressure), hermeticamente fechado (air proof, closely, earth), hermético (hermetic, leakproof, leaktight, leak-tight, prestidigitation, sealed), estanque (sealed, tight). (various references)

Romanian

ermetic (air proof, hermetic, hermetically, tight, watertight). (various references)

Russian 

консервы герметический, герметический (air tight, airtight, hermetic, pressurized), непроницаемый для воздуха. (various references)

Spanish

resistencia a la presión (resistant to pressure), hermético (air proof, airtight, hermetic, sealed, tight, tight lipped), estanco (cigar store, leakproof, leaktight, leak-tight, sealed, smoke shop, state monopoly, tight, tobacconist shop, watertight). (various references)

Swedish

lufttät (airproof, airtight, impermeable to air, resistant to pressure). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kín hơi (air-proof, steam-tight), kín gió (air-proof, wind-tight). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: airtight.

-2 letters: aright.

-3 letters: airth, garth, girth, grith, right, tight, tragi, trait.

-4 letters: airt, gait, ghat, girt, grat, grit, hair, hart, ragi, rath, tahr, tart, that, thir, titi, trig.

-5 letters: air, ait, art, att, gar, gat, ghi, git, hag, hat, hit, rag, rah, rat, ria, rig, tag, tar, tat, tit.

+3 letters: haircutting, straighting, straightish.

+4 letters: airtightness, haircuttings.

+5 letters: antilogarithm, catheterizing, hairsplitting, straightening, stratigraphic, ultrarightist.

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