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
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
No asthma patient should be prescribed a long-acting reliever inhaler without being given a preventer inhaler too, for example.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2015
Encouraging himself thus, he grasped his preventer, and pulled about the débris in various places of which he had some suspicion; but the engines had done their work so effectually that not a spark remained.
From Fighting the Flames by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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
The 2016 rule required companies to test the blowout preventers every 14 days.
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
But the men and women who go about their business, doing their work well all of the time, are the preventers of social trouble.
From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
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