Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PLUNGER
PLUNGER
Definitions of PLUNGER
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- Certain equipment for brewing coffee.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- (dated, slang) A reckless gambler or gamble.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
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Examples of Using PLUNGER in a Sentence
- Many musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison, plunger trombonist Al Grey, and singers Jimmy Rushing, Helen Humes, Thelma Carpenter, and Joe Williams.
- The earliest pitch pipes were instruments similar to the recorder, but rather than finger holes, they had a plunger like a slide whistle's (also known as a swanee whistle) making it essentially a type of Slide Whistle.
- The pitch is changed by moving the slide plunger in and out, producing ascending and descending glisses.
- A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel.
- The modern French press consists of a narrow cylindrical beaker, usually made of glass or clear plastic, equipped with a metal or plastic lid and plunger that fits tightly in the cylinder and has a fine stainless steel wire or nylon mesh filter.
- James Wesley "Bubber" Miley (April 3, 1903 – May 20, 1932) was an American early jazz trumpet and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute.
- They may be set in motion by twirling a handle with the fingers, by pulling a rope coiled around the body, or through a built-in auger (spiral plunger).
- Due to the fixed height of a cam lobe, the amount of fuel being pumped to the injector is controlled by a rack and pinion device that rotates the plunger, thus allowing variable amounts of fuel to the area above the plunger.
- The plumbing plunger was invented in 1874 by New York confectioner John Hawley, with the flattened rim added in 1876.
- On 3 May 1909, Ensign Chester Nimitz, the future fleet admiral who would say he considered the submarines of the time "a cross between a Jules Verne fantasy and a humpbacked whale", assumed command of Plunger.
- This special operation ended with Plunger completing its final Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination (which it passed with flying colors) and giving its crew some well-earned R&R in Pearl Harbor Hawaii.
- This design uses a ballcock attached to a pivoting lever that opens and closes a plunger stem fitted with a washer that seals against a water inlet port.
- The plate on the edge of a door (where a bolt or door plunger protrudes) is called the "faceplate"; opposite on the jamb is the "latchplate", creating or reinforcing the hole receiving a latch, bolt, or plunger.
- The original cut of Born Innocent contained a scene where several girls, led by Moco (Nora Heflin) and Denny (Janit Baldwin), use a plunger handle to rape Chris in the communal showers.
- This type of churn is also known as an 'up and down' churn, churning tub, plunger churn, plumping churn, knocker churn, plump-kirn, or plowt-kirn (where "kirn" is a Scots/Northern English word for churn).
- The principal workings are essentially like that of the earlier button fillers like the Duofold as the depression of the plunger pushed on the rubber sac and forced out the air (creating a vacuum) and when the rubber regained its natural form the ink got sucked into the pen to replace the air.
- Inside the pyramid, Donald meets Goofy, who gives him a strange note and a red plunger to help him reach high places, and tells him that Gyro Gearloose is looking for him back in Duckburg.
- Instead of computer keyboard buzzers, the teams used blue plunger buzzers and wore nametags on their jumpsuits.
- In design terms (enclosed bolt face, plunger ejector, brazed bolt construction) the new action itself was comparable in design to the competing Remington Model 700, which has a worldwide following and is considered to be very reliable.
- A transistor is a valve in which a diaphragm, controlled by a low-current signal (either constant current for a BJT or constant pressure for a FET), moves a plunger which affects the current through another section of pipe.
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