Word Meanings - GASTIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Related words: (words related to GASTIGHT)

• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• PRECLUDE
  1. To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede. The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins. E. Darwin. 2. To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication;
• FITTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. Dr. H. More.
• FITTING
  Anything used in fitting up; especially ,
• TIGHTLY
  In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
• FITTABLE
  Suitable; fit. Sherwood.
• FITT
  See FIT
• FITTER
  1. One who fits or makes to fit; esp.: One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress. One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other. 2. A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the
• IMPERVIOUS
  Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air. This gulf impassable, impervious. Milton. The minds of these zealots were absolutely impervious. Macaulay. Syn. -- Impassable; pathless;
• ESCAPER
  One who escapes.
• ESCAPE
  LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's 1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak. 2. To avoid the notice of;
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• ANCHOR ESCAPEMENT
  The common recoil escapement. A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.
• BEFITTING
  Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.
• MISBEFITTING
  No befitting.