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gasket
gas·ket G0052200 (găs′kĭt)n.1. Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.2. Nautical A cord or canvas strap used to secure a furled sail to a yard, boom, or gaff.
[Perhaps alteration of French garcette, small cord, diminutive of garce, girl, from Old French, feminine of gars, boy, soldier; see garçon.]gasket (ˈɡæskɪt) n1. (Mechanical Engineering) a compressible packing piece of paper, rubber, asbestos, etc, sandwiched between the faces or flanges of a joint to provide a seal2. (Nautical Terms) nautical a piece of line used as a sail stop3. blow a gasket slang to burst out in anger[C17 (in the sense: rope lashing a furled sail): probably from French garcette rope's end, literally: little girl, from Old French garce girl, feminine of gars boy, servant]gas•ket (ˈgæs kɪt)
n. 1. a rubber, metal, or rope ring, for packing a piston or placing around a joint to make it watertight. 2. a light line for securing a furled sail to a boom, gaff, or yard. [1615–25; perhaps < French garcette a plait of rope] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  gasket - seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe jointhead gasket - a gasket to seal a cylinder headO ring - a gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressureseal - fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure |
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blow a gasketTo react furiously and/or violently, to the point of losing control of one's behavior. Mom totally blew a gasket when I told her I had failed math. Don't blow a gasket, it's just a tiny scratch on the car.See also: blow, gasketblow a fuse1. To suddenly lose power due to an overloaded electrical circuit. Well, we just blew a fuse—it seems that running the space heater, the coffee maker, and a blow dryer at the same time was not the best idea!2. By extension, to react furiously, to the point of losing control of one's behavior. Mom totally blew a fuse when I told her I had failed math. Don't blow a fuse—it's just a tiny scratch on the car.See also: blow, fuseblow a fuse 1. to burn out the fuse on an electrical circuit and lose power. The microwave oven blew a fuse, so we had no power. You'll blow a fuse if you use too many appliances at once. 2. and blow one's fuse; blow a gasket; blow one's cork; blow one's lid; blow one's top; blow one's stack Fig. to explode with anger; to lose one's temper. Come on, don't blow a fuse. Go ahead, blow a gasket! What good will that do?See also: blow, fuseblow a fuseAlso, blow a gasket. Lose one's temper, express furious anger. For example, When his paycheck bounced, John blew a fuse, or Tell Mom what really happened before she blows a gasket. An electric fuse is said to "blow" (melt) when the circuit is overloaded, whereas a gasket, used to seal a piston, "blows" (breaks) when the pressure is too high. The first of these slangy terms dates from the 1930s, the second from the 1940s. Also see blow one's top; keep one's cool. See also: blow, fusegasketsee under blow a fuse. blow a fuse If you blow a fuse, you suddenly lose your temper and cannot control your anger. For all my experience, I blew a fuse in the quarter-final and could have been sent off. He's going to blow a fuse when he finds out about Miller. Note: A fuse is a safety device found in electrical equipment. If the equipment becomes too hot, the fuse blows, or burns. This breaks the electrical circuit, so that the equipment will stop working. See also: blow, fuseblow a fuse lose your temper. informal The metaphor is of the failure of an electrical circuit or engine as a result of overheating.See also: blow, fuseblow a gasket 1 suffer a leak in a gasket of an engine. 2 lose your temper. informalSee also: blow, gasketblow a ˈfuse (informal) get very angry: It was only a suggestion, Rob. There’s no need to blow a fuse.This refers to the fact that if the flow of electricity in a piece of electrical equipment is too strong, the fuse (= a small wire or device inside it) will break (blow), often with a loud noise, and stop the current.See also: blow, fuseblow a fuse and blow one’s fuse and blow a gasket and blow one’s cork and blow one’s lid and blow one’s top and blow one’s stack tv. to explode with anger; to lose one’s temper. Go ahead, blow a gasket! What good will that do? Crunk! I so blew my top! See also: blow, fuseblow a gasket verbSee blow a fuseSee also: blow, gasket blow a fuse/gasket Slang To explode with anger.See also: blow, fuseblow a fuseLose your temper. Back in the days before circuit breakers, a house's electrical system was regulated by a fuse box. Individual fuses connected to separate lines throughout the house were inserted into the box. When a circuit became overloaded, a thin metal strip in the fuse melted, breaking the circuit to prevent an overload and a possible fire. You'd then replace the fuse after disconnecting whatever appliance might have caused the overload. Someone who because very angry was said to blow a fuse, which doesn't make sense because a fuse was meant to defuse, so to speak, the situation. But no one ever said that idioms must be rational. Similar expressions that make more sense are “blow your stack,” which came from the era of steam engines that would explode if the steam wasn't allowed to explode, and “have a meltdown,” as in a nuclear reactor gone wild.See also: blow, fusegasket
gasket1. a compressible packing piece of paper, rubber, asbestos, etc., sandwiched between the faces or flanges of a joint to provide a seal 2. Nautical a piece of line used as a sail stop gasket[′gas·git] (engineering) A packing made of deformable material, usually in the form of a sheet or ring, used to make a pressure-tight joint between stationary parts. Also known as static seal. gasket1. A continuous strip of resilient material attached to a door or doorframe to provide a tight seal between the door and frame; acts as weather stripping and as a light and sound seal. 2. Any ring of resilient material, used at a joint to prevent leakage.See GSKT
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