Helen Fenton

Air chamber: Definition and part of speech

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Air chamber

  1. A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.
  2. A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Air cell: Definition and part of speech

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Air cell

  1. A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects.
  2. A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Air bladder: Definition and part of speech

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Air bladder

  1. A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
  2. An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Airing: Definition and part of speech

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Airing

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Air
  2. n. A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health’s sake.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.