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Definition: Bulkhead |
BulkheadNoun1. A partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bulkhead" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Note: Bulkhead \Bulk"head`\, noun. [See Bulk part of building.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A wall, partition, or similar member in a rocket, spacecraft, airplane fuselage, or similar structure, at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the structure, and serving to strengthen, divide, or help give shape to the structure. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | A watertight enclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A structure constructed at the outfall of a drainage outlet to prevent injury from frost and from the caving of the banks and to prevent the washing out of the tile line at the lower end. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Transverse, or fore and aft, vertical partition in a vessel to divide interior into compartments. Not necessarily watertight. Increases rigidity of structure, localizes effects of fire and, when watertight, localizes inflow of water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | A term sometimes applied (particularly in the USA) to the end section of an open-hearth furnace which comprises the burners and the uptakes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A watertight dam containing some form of door or removable plate. See also:dam b. A tight partition of wood, rock, and mud or concrete in mines for protection against gas, fire, and water. c. A masonry diaphragm built across a subaqueous tunnel, where compressed air is used as a precaution, and to prevent the flooding of an entire tunnel in case of an accident. It is usually kept some distance in the rear of the working face and is provided with two air locks; one of them is an emergency lock near the roof d. A stone, steel, wood, or concrete wall-like structure primarily designed to resist earth or water pressure, such as a retaining wall holding back the ground from sliding into a channel, or a partition preventing water from entering a working area in a mine e. A timber chock in metal mines f. The end of a flume, whence water is carried in iron pipes to hydraulic workings. g. A solid crib used to support a very heavy roof. See also:cog; chock. h. A panel of brick of lesser cross-sectional thickness built into a wall for ease of replacement or for entrance to the walled chambe. (references) |
Shipping | - A partition separating one part of a ship, freight car, aircraft or truck from another part. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Unclear. Definition: A wall. Context: Used in training or when being punished. Social Source: United State's Navy. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Transportation | Wall in a structure which serves to strenghten, divide or help give shape to the structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Main wall or partition in a structure at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the structure and serving to strenghten, divide or give shape to the structure. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Major transverse structural member in fuselage, hull or other axial structure, especially one forming complete transverse barrier. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Verb: cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap; encase, incase; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard. |
Top, lid, covercle, door, operculum; bulkhead. | |
Hindrance | Beaver dam; trocha; barricade; (defense); wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper; boom, dam, weir, burrock. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bulkhead |
| English words defined with "bulkhead": Cubbridge-head ♦ Syphering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bulkhead": ASSEMBLER, DECK AND HULL ♦ CARPENTER, PROTOTYPE ♦ deck and hull assembler, divisional bulkhead ♦ enclosing bulkhead, end bulkhead ♦ fire wall ♦ INSTALLER, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, MECHANICAL, INSTALLER, MOVABLE BULKHEAD ♦ joiner bulkhead ♦ partition bulkhead, portable bulkhead ♦ shaft tube, shifting boards, stanking, stern tube, Stoplogs. (references) |
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Screenplays | Mister Hirsch, step away from that bulkhead. The shockwave from one of these explosions could snap your spine (U-571; writing credit: Jonathan Mostow) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A wooden bulkhead protects the end of an oil and gas pipeline on the Gulf of Mexico. The restoration was conducted to fortify this area as it filled repeatedly with water. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Area 2; southeast view from the bulkhead looking down the beach towards Area 1. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Area 2; a northwest view of the bulkhead. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The shoreline is armored in many coastal areas. This bulkhead, while protecting upland real estate from erosion, limits the growth of salt marshes and provides a direct pathway into the estuary for runoff containing contaminants from upland sources. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | USN Medical Supply Storehouse NO. 3 : Aisle #3- Issue Storehouse Bldg. Reserved stock of Blood Plasme, "IV" solutions and Serum Albumin along bulkhead. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Outlaw, Commander Fighting Squadron 32 and Air Group 32, with other VF-32 pilots in flight quarters after a sweep over Truk, 29 April 1944. Note steward serving drinks, status boards on the bulkhead and ventilator on the overhead. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A hammock-bound Sailor's reflections on Navy lower deck life, with second thoughts as re-enlistment time nears. Taken in a 5"/51 gun casemate on board USS Nevada (BB-36) by A.E. Wells, the ship's photographer, during the early 1920s. Note ready-service shells on the casemate bulkhead, gun at left, shoes tied to hammock lashings and tattoo on the man's left leg. Credit: NAVY. |  | Pilots of Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) in their ready room aboard USS Franklin (CV-13), 24 October 1944, just before the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea. They are watching as the position of the Japanese fleet is posted. VT-13's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Larry French, is second from the left, with a navigation board beside his chair. Note life vests, with die marker pouches, worn by several of these men. Other life vests, and .38 caliber revolvers, are hanging on the bulkhead. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber final assembly plant. Joining American-made Pratt and Whitney motors to a bulkhead to be attached to plane. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bulkhead" by Jim Robinson Commentary: "A bulkhead." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Oh God, muttered Ford, slumped against a bulkhead and started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this |
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| "Bulkhead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bulkhead" is used about 90 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 90 | 34,744 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bulkhead": bulkhead gate ♦ bulkhead in ♦ cabin rear bulkhead ♦ divisional bulkhead ♦ enclosing bulkhead ♦ end bulkhead ♦ forward bulkhead ♦ front pressure bulkhead ♦ joiner bulkhead ♦ partition bulkhead ♦ portable bulkhead ♦ pressure bulkhead. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bulkhead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الحاجز (barrier, hurdle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | навес (awning, canopy, hovel, marquee, outbuilding, penthouse, shed, shelter, stoop, tilt), преграда (baffle, barricade, compartment, division, hedge, hurdle, interception, obstruction, occlusion, partition, railing, screen, septum, stanchion, traverse, web). (various references) | |
Chinese | 隔框. (various references) | |
Czech | přepážka (counter, partition). (various references) | |
Danish | beskyttelsevaerk ved draenudmunding, spunsvæg (caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam, curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), skot (bulkhead gate, cofferdam, stop log), skod (roach), kofferdam (caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam, rubberdam), isoleringsskod (isolating curtain), fangdæmning (caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam). (various references) | |
Dutch | brandwerende massa (isolating curtain), bouwkuip (caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam), taludbeschermer, structuurschot, schot (Scot, Scotsman, wall), leischot (baffle, partition), kofferdam (caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam), hoofdspant (main frame), cofferdam (caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam, rubberdam). (various references) | |
Farsi | تیغه (Blade, Knife, Midriff, Partition, Septum), تاقک , تاق نما (Overhang), دیوار (Curtain, Enclosure, Fence, Screen, Wall). (various references) | |
Finnish | laipio (ceiling). (various references) | |
French | cloison. (various references) | |
German | schott (baffle, bulkhead gate, cofferdam, partition, stop log). (various references) | |
Greek | διάφραγμα (diaphragm, midriff, septum), μπουλμές, φρακτή. (various references) | |
Hungarian | választófal (party wall), válaszfal (diaphragm, division, partition, septa, septum). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tembok pemisah. (various references) | |
Italian | paratia (baffle, partition, piling, sheet pile, sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遮断壁 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃだんぺき. (various references) | |
Korean | 방수벽. (various references) | |
Manx | bulcaid, boalley lhuingey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulkheadbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sacada (balcony, gallery, jut, porch), quadro principal (main frame), quadro fechado, placa deflectora (baffle, partition), murete de protecção, ensecadeira (bulkhead gate, caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam, stop log), divisória (baffler, divide, division, partition), anteparo (rail, sconce, screen, shield), antepara (baffle, louvre). (various references) | |
Russian | переборка (partition). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pregrada (baffle, barrage, barrier, closure, divider, division, partition, screen, septum, stall). (various references) | |
Spanish | mamparo (caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam). (various references) | |
Swedish | vattentätt skott. (various references) | |
Turkish | gemi bölmesi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | перегородка (closure, diaphragm, septum), перемичка (barrier, brattice, bridge, lintel), перебірка. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bulkhead": bulkheads. (additional references) | |
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"Bulkhead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belkhadem, bolthead, Boulkheir, Bukha, Bukhizam, bunkhead, Mukhida. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bulkhead" (pronounced bu"lkhe'd) |
| 4 | -k h e' d | thickhead. |
| 3 | -h e' d | Airhead, arrowhead, beachhead, bridgehead, bullhead, copperhead, Deadhead, letterhead, Loggerhead, dragonhead, drumhead, egghead, figurehead, flathead, Godhead, hardhead, masthead, redhead, skinhead, spearhead, steelhead, trailhead, warhead, wellhead, Whitehead. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-h-k-l-u" | |
-1 letter: baulked. | |
-2 letters: balked, belaud, bulked, hauled, hulked, keblah. | |
-3 letters: baked, baled, baulk, blade, bleak, blued, daube, haled, kheda, laked, lehua, lubed. | |
-4 letters: abed, able, auld, bade, bake, bald, bale, balk, baud, bead, beak, beau, bedu, blae, blah, bled, blue, buhl, bulk, dahl, dale, daub, deal, dhak, dhal, dual, duel, duke, habu, hade, haed, hake. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-h-k-l-u" | |
+1 letter: bulkheads. | |
+2 letters: backhauled. | |
+4 letters: swashbuckled. | |
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