preventer
Americannoun
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preventers
plural
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a person or thing that prevents.
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Nautical.
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any of various lines set up to reinforce or relieve ordinary running or standing rigging.
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a line for preventing a sail from jibbing.
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noun
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a person or thing that prevents
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nautical a rope or other piece of gear rigged to prevent a sail from gybing
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A diligent plumber will also calculate the pressure loss from the height of the bathroom above the water meter, the pressure loss through the water meter, a backflow preventer and any other pressure regulators.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Halliburton, the Big Oil services firm, was also blamed for faulty cementing of the well, and Cameron, the maker of the blowout preventer, was scrutinized over the the device’s failure.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2020
The blowout preventer was supposed to be the last-ditch defense against high-pressure gas and oil bursting out of the well.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2016
A blowout preventer, which hadn’t been serviced for nine years, failed to close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2016
They even put preventer stays on the masts and on the boilers to keep them from rolling out of the crazy old wagon.
From Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Another would require blowout preventers — the equipment that failed in 2010 — to always be able to handle the well’s maximum gas flow specifications.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Much of the discussion centers on rules intended to keep wells under control, such as requirements for blowout preventers that failed in the spill.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2020
But Sunday’s press conference shows that, through flattery and fear, he can be prevented from preventing the actual preventers from doing prevention.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2020
We hear of kill lines, blowout preventers, negative pressure tests, and something called the bladder effect, which I would rather not know about.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2016
A constant water supply is laid on, there being no cisterns but those to the water-waste preventers to closets.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various
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