Bevel gear () A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet. |
Bottle-nose (n.) A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe. |
Bottle-nose (n.) The puffin. |
Bull's-nose (n.) An external angle when obtuse or rounded. |
Copper-nose (n.) A red nose. |
Front (n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes |
Front (n.) The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence |
Front (n.) The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward |
Front (n.) A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing |
Front (n.) The most conspicuous part. |
Front (n.) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. |
Front (n.) The beginning. |
Front (a.) Of or relating to the front or forward part |
Front (v. t.) To oppose face to face |
Front (v. t.) To appear before |
Front (v. t.) To face toward |
Front (v. t.) To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. |
Front (v. t.) To adorn in front |
Front (v. t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction |
Gear (n.) Clothing |
Gear (n.) Goods |
Gear (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear |
Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle |
Gear (n.) Warlike accouterments. |
Gear (n.) Manner |
Gear (n.) Business matters |
Gear (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel |
Gear (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function |
Gear (n.) Engagement of parts with each other |
Gear (n.) See 1st Jeer (b). |
Gear (n.) Anything worthless |
Gear (v. t.) To dress |
Gear (v. t.) To provide with gearing. |
Gear (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Landing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Land |
Landing (a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. |
Landing (n.) A going or bringing on shore. |
Landing (n.) A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc. |
Landing (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another. |
Nose (n.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities |
Nose (n.) The power of smelling |
Nose (n.) A projecting end or beak at the front of an object |
Nose (v. t.) To smell |
Nose (v. t.) To touch with the nose |
Nose (v. t.) To utter in a nasal manner |
Nose (v. i.) To smell |
Nose (v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one. |
Pug nose () A short, thick nose |
Tut-nose (n.) A snub nose. |
landing | the act of coming to land after a voyage |
landing | the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface), the plane made a smooth landing, his landing on his feet was catlike |
forced landing emergency landing | an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control |
amphibious landing | a military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion, MacArthur staged a massive amphibious landing behind enemy lines |
landing approach | the approach to a landing field by an airplane |
blind flying blind landing | using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc. |
aircraft landing airplane landing | landing an aircraft |
crash landing | an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft) |
three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
instrument landing | an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments |
dive nose dive nosedive | a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft |
crawl front crawl Australian crawl | a swimming stroke, arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick |
census nose count nosecount | a periodic count of the population |
nose job rhinoplasty | cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of your nose |
front-porch campaigning front-porch campaign | a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel, William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in , her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign |
diversionary landing | an amphibious diversionary attack |
Shiloh battle of Shiloh battle of Pittsburgh Landing | the second great battle of the American Civil War (), the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory |
airfield landing field flying field field | a place where planes take off and land |
airstrip flight strip landing strip strip | an airfield without normal airport facilities |
bevel gear pinion and crown wheel pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
big H hell dust nose drops smack thunder skag scag | street names for heroin |
chafing gear | covering (usually rope or canvas) of a line or spar to protect it from friction |
chanfron chamfron testiere frontstall front-stall | medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head |
coke blow nose candy snow C | street names for cocaine |
differential gear differential | a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds, used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves |
epicyclic train epicyclic gear train | a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis |
first gear first low gear low | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle, used to start a car moving |
fishing gear tackle fishing tackle fishing rig rig | gear used in fishing |
flight deck landing deck | the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, used as a runway |
fly fly front | an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth |
foul-weather gear | protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather |
front | the side that is seen or that goes first |
front bench | any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers |
front door front entrance | exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building |
front porch | a porch for the front door |
front projector | a projector for digital input |
front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
gear gear wheel geared wheel cogwheel | a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
gear paraphernalia appurtenance | equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. |
gear gear mechanism | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) |
gearbox gear box gear case | the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed |
gearing gear geartrain power train train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
gearshift gearstick shifter gear lever | a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears, in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever |
high gear high | a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed |
landing landing place | structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods |
landing | an intermediate platform in a staircase |
landing craft | naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment |
landing flap | a flap on the underside of the wing that is lowered to slow the plane for landing |
landing gear | an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground |
landing net | a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water |