# flange
## English
### Etymology

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /flænd͡ʒ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ændʒ

### Noun

flange (plural flanges)
* An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
* The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
* (roleplaying games) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
** 1998, Mr MI Pennington, “Can the Players be Trusted?”, in rec.games.frp.live-action‎ (Usenet):[The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line.
** 2007, "balor", Changing the metaphysics on Rule 7
    'Oh look, the amulet of flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'
* (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
** 2001, tedfat, “Flange!!!!”, in alt.society.nottingham‎ (Usenet):I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange. Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her.
** 2003, Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets‎:'God, she's got a tight flange!' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.
* (rare, humorous) The collective noun for a group of baboons.
    Synonyms: troop, congress
** 1980s (first use), Not the Nine O'clock News, Rowan Atkinson (actor):it's a flange of baboons
** 2006, Rick Crosier, Getting Away with Murder‎:I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.
* The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.

#### Derived terms

* flange greaser
* flangeless
* flangelike
* flange lubricator
* flange oiler
* flangetail
* flangeway

#### Translations
### Verb

flange (third-person singular simple present flanges, present participle flanging, simple past and past participle flanged)
* (intransitive) To be bent into a flange.
* (transitive, mechanics) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
* (transitive, sound engineering) To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.

#### Derived terms

* flangeable

### Trivia

* No other common English word rhymes with /-ændʒ/.

### Anagrams

* fangle

## Danish
### Etymology

From English flange.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flanɡsjɘ/, [ˈflɑŋɕɘ]

### Noun

flange c (singular definite flangen, plural indefinite flanger)
* flange (external or internal rib or rim)

#### Inflection
## Italian
### Alternative forms

* flangie (misspelling)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflan.d͡ʒe/
* Rhymes: -andʒe
* Hyphenation: flàn‧ge

### Noun

flange f pl
* plural of flangia