air-slack

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• air-slack — transitive verb see air slake …   Useful english dictionary

• air-slake — verb alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate air slake lime • Hypernyms: ↑slack, ↑slake • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * transitive verb also …   Useful english dictionary

• Air-slacked lime — Slack Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. t. 1. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40) [1913 Webster] 2. To neglect; to be remiss in. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] Slack not the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Slack — Slack, Slacken Slack en, v. t. 1. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40) [1913 Webster] 2. To neglect; to be remiss in. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] Slack not the pressage.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• slack — slack1 [slak] adj. [ME slakke < OE slæc, akin to Du slak < IE base * (s)lēg , loose, slack > L laxus, lax] 1. slow; idle; sluggish 2. barely moving: said of a current, as of air or water 3. characterized by little work, trade, or… …   English World dictionary

• slack fill —    delivering less than the customer thinks has been sold    Commercial jargon for the design and manufacture of bottles and cartons which look as if they hold more than they do. Sometimes too of only partly filling them, with packing or air… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• Railway air brake — Piping diagram from 1920 of a Westinghouse E T Air Brake system on a locomotive …   Wikipedia

• Beechcraft Queen Air — Role Utility aircraft Business aircraft Airliner Designer Beech Airc …   Wikipedia

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• Modern United States Navy carrier air operations — Modern United States Navy aircraft carrier air operations include the operation of fixed wing and rotary aircraft on and around an aircraft carrier for performance of combat or non combat missions. Modern United States Navy aircraft carrier… …   Wikipedia

• cut someone some slack — cut (someone) some slack American & Australian, informal to allow someone to do something that is not usually allowed, or to treat someone less severely than is usual. Officials have asked the Environmental Protection Agency to cut Utah some… …   New idioms dictionary