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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)

 

Synonyms: AIR-TIGHT

Synonyms by domain: airtight (food & agriculture), frost resistant plastic cover, resistant to pressure (transportation), sealed (engineering & technology), tightest (building & civil engineering, transportationtransportation).

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Crosswords: AIR-TIGHT

English words defined with "AIR-TIGHT": Air cushionBurial casecompartment pressureDesiccator, Draught tubeHermeticalMason jar. (references)
Specialty definitions using "AIR-TIGHT": CAULKINGdopingpneumatic shaft sinkingstrong box. (references)

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Modern Usage: AIR-TIGHT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Air-Tight (1931)

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

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Photo Album: AIR-TIGHT

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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.

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Usage Frequency: AIR-TIGHT

"AIR-TIGHT" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AIR-TIGHT" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: AIR-TIGHT

Language Translations for "AIR-TIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AIR-TIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: airtight.

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-i-r-t-t"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-i-r-t-t"
 

+3 letters: haircutting, straighting, straightish.

 

+4 letters: airtightness, haircuttings.

 

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

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

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Alternative Orthography: AIR-TIGHT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 49 52 2D 54 49 47 48 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001001 01010010 00101101 01010100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#73 &#82 &#45 &#84 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0049 0052 002D 0054 0049 0047 0048 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354352155443414254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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