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Definition: Gasket |
GasketNoun1. Seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gasket" was first used: 1622. (references) |
Etymology: Gasket \Gas"ket\, noun. [Compare to the French expression garcette, Italian gaschetta, Spanish cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Law | Elaboration of common viewpoints and joint diplomatic relations with external countries, commitment of Member States to consult each other in matters of foreign policy before deciding on a definite position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | The mating parts are bolted together with a gasket between their machined faces to ensure a tight seal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | (In a flat plate collector)serves to hold down the cover plate(or plates)and provide a weather-tight seal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Gasket |
| English words defined with "gasket": Flat rope ♦ head gasket ♦ O ring, o.k.. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gasket": BOWLING-BALL-MOLD ASSEMBLER ♦ CELL COVERER, cell pourer, CENTRIFUGAL SPINNER, cylinder head gasket, cylinderhead gasket ♦ demountable vacuum system, DRUM TESTER ♦ feeder operator, flat-sheet maker ♦ gasket for joints, GASKET INSPECTOR, GASKET SUPERVISOR ♦ knurled gasket, knurled plate gasket ♦ MOLD-FILLING OPERATOR ♦ NEEDLE STRAIGHTENER ♦ REFRIGERATOR GLAZIER ♦ SPARK-PLUG ASSEMBLER, spinner, concrete pipe. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gasket" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Indonesian (gasket). |
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Screenplays | Colonel, you came out here to find out why one of your machines blew a gasket! (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There goes a gasket. |
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| "Gasket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gasket" is used about 48 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% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Nippon Gasket Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "gasket": blow a gasket ♦ carburetor gasket ♦ cylinder head gasket ♦ cylinderhead gasket ♦ gasket for joints ♦ head gasket ♦ knurled gasket ♦ knurled plate gasket ♦ metal gasket ♦ rubber gasket. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mr gasket | 206 |
gasket | 147 |
head gasket | 117 |
blown head gasket | 51 |
gasket material | 42 |
rubber gasket | 33 |
gasket manufacturer | 26 |
gasket head repair | 26 |
cincinnati gasket | 25 |
valve cover gasket | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gasket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rondelë (rove), copë litari. (various references) | |
Arabic | حشية ميكانيكا, الحشية مرسة تثبيت شراع مطوي, الخشتق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уплътнител (packing), корабно въже, набивка (packing, pad, wad, wadding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 垫圈. (various references) | |
Czech | tìsnìní (seal, stuffing, washer). (various references) | |
Danish | glas-kassesamling (joint), taetningsring (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring), pladepakning, pakring (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring), pakningsmiddel (bordering, joint, packing), pakning (bordering, compacting, encapsulation, fitting, fomentation, gland packing, joint, jointing, pack, package, packaging, packing, poultice, tamping). (various references) | |
Dutch | pakkingstuk (packing), pakkingring (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring), pakking (gland, gland packing, grommet, joint, packing, seal grommet), dichting (joint, packing, sealing), afdichtingsring (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring). (various references) | |
Farsi | لاءی گذاشتن (Wad), واشرچرمی , شراع بند, درزگرفتن (Caulk, Chink, Seam), درزبند, بادبان بند (Jackstay). (various references) | |
Finnish | tiiviste (extract, gland packing, hash-code, joint, packing, precipitate). (various references) | |
French | joint d'étanchéité, joint. (various references) | |
German | packung (ballast, box, compress, fomentation, gland packing, joint, pack, package, packet, packing, pad, pitching, pledget, poultice), Dichtungsring (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring, washer), dichtung (close joint, fiction, joint, leak-proof joint, literature, packing, poem, poetry, seal, sealing, sealing gasket, tight joint, verse, washer). (various references) | |
Greek | ροδέλα στεγανότητας (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring), στεγανοποίηση (joint, packing, proofing), στούπωμα (clog, cushioning, padding, wadding), σ?νδεσμος στεγανοποíησης (joint), σ?νδεσμος στήριξης (joint), μονωτικός σύνδεσμος (packing), περίβλημα (can, canning, case, casing, clad, cladding, coating, cortex, enclosure, envelope, fiber cladding, fiber optics cladding, fibre cladding, fibre optics cladding, housing, hull, husk, integument, jacket, liner, nacelle, optical fiber cladding, optical fibre cladding, planking, sheath, sheathing, shell, shield, sleeve), παρέμβυσμα (fill, flange, packer, packing, stopple), φλάντζα στεγανωτική (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring), τσιμούχα, δαχτυλίδι στεγανότητας (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אטם (obturator, seal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tömítés (blinding, casing, caulk, oakum, pad, plugging, plumbing, seal, sealing, stuffing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gasket, palung (trough). (various references) | |
Italian | guarnizione (decoration, garnish, garnishment, gland, join, joint, seal, sealing gasket, topping, trimming). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ガザ地区 (aluminum-foil burner liner, foreign worker, gadget, gadget bag, gas, gas bomb, gas chromatography, gas mask, gas station, gas turbine, gastrocamera, gastronomic, gastronomist, gastronomy, Gaza Strip). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ガスケット . (various references) | |
Korean | 틈막이. (various references) | |
Manx | gasgad. (various references) | |
Norwegian | pakning. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asketgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarnição (binding, border, braid, facing, fittings, fringe, furniture, garnish, garniture, garrison, lining, mourn, post, setting, trim, trimming), gaxeta, gasificar, vedante (joint, labyrinth seal, sealer), vedação (enclosure, fence, fencing, fitting, game fence, gate, hail, hurdle, jointing, luting, packing, paling fence, picket fence, rail, railing, sealing, wattle, windbreak), junta chata, junta (applying joint bars, articulation, assembly, binding, cable binding, committee, connection, connector, directorate, fish-plating, fitting, glue line, join, joint, junta, knuckle, movable joint, packing, splice, union), calafetagem (calking, caulking). (various references) | |
Romanian | garniturã (assortment, complement, decorations, garnish, garniture, jabot, packing, set, side dish, suite, trimming, trimmings). (various references) | |
Russian | сальник (gland, oil seal, stuffing box, stuffing-box), набивка (compression, filling, pack, padding, stuffing, wadding). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaptivka, zaptivač (obturator). (various references) | |
Spanish | gásquet, junta plana, junta de estanqueidad (aerosol closure, bead, close joint, joint, keeper seal, leak-proof joint, sealing, tight joint), junta común (moot, splice), junta (assembly, board, council, joint, joint ring, junta, labyrinth seal, packing, seal, splice, union, washer), frisa (weathertight door), estopada (joint, packing), empaquetadura (gland, joint, packing, stemming, stemming material, tamping), empaquetadora (packing), anillo de estanquidad (gasket for joints, joint ring, packing ring, seal ring, sealing ring). (various references) | |
Swedish | packning (bordering, compacting, compaction, compactness, compression, consolidation, kit, level of compaction, luggage, pack, packing, seal, state of compaction, washer). (various references) | |
Thai | วงแหวนอั"ลูกสูบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | conta (packing). (various references) | |
Ukranian | прокладка (cushion, packing, separator, strip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | garcette. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gasket": gaskets. (additional references) | |
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"Gasket" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asketh, Axkxt, gaset, gasget, gask, Gaskarth, Gasken, gasketed, gaskit, Gataker, gazeet, Gieskes, Glazkov, Goscote, goset, Goslett, hgscit, Paskett, tasket. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gasket" (pronounced ga"skut) |
| 5 | -a" s k u t | basket, casket. |
| 4 | -s k u t | biscuit, breadbasket, brisket, musket, wastebasket. |
| 3 | -k u t | advocate, affricate, aftermarket, Becket, blanket, bucket, certificate, circuit, cricket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, hypermarket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wicket. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-k-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gates, getas, skate, stage, stake, steak, takes, teaks. | |
-2 letters: ages, ates, east, eats, etas, gaes, gast, gate, gats, gest, geta, gets, kaes, kats, keas, kegs, sage, sake, sate, seat, seta, skag, skat, skeg, stag, tags, take, task, teak, teas, tegs. | |
-3 letters: age, ask, ate, eat, eta, gae, gas, gat, get, kae, kas, kat, kea, keg, sae, sag, sat, sea, seg, set, ska, tae, tag, tas, tea, teg, tsk. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, as, at, es, et, ka, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-k-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gaskets. | |
+2 letters: gawkiest, tankages. | |
+3 letters: backstage, casketing, grubstake, stagelike, streaking, trackages, truckages. | |
+4 letters: goatsucker, grubstaked, grubstaker, grubstakes, marketings, restacking, streakings. | |
+5 letters: asterisking, caretakings, gatekeepers, goatsuckers, grubstakers, knotgrasses, makeweights, outspeaking, overtasking, ringstraked, stagestruck, steelmaking, waterskiing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 73 6B 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- ... -.- . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110011 01101011 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a s k e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0073 006B 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)416785777186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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