What's the difference between gasket and lasket?

Gasket


Definition:

  • (n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
  • (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
  • (n.) Any ring or washer of packing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
  • (2) Hyperchlorination, raising hot water temperatures to greater than 55 degrees C, and replacing rubber gaskets are useful methods for controlling outbreaks of legionellosis traced to potable water systems but are not yet justified as routine preventative methods in the absence of such an outbreak.
  • (3) The chamber consists of two glass microscope slides suitably prepared for cell growth and a gasket of silicone rubber.
  • (4) The size of the power device is 1 cm3; it may be inserted into the injector, which then does not need a gasket any more.
  • (5) For a variety of baby foods there was no significant difference in ESBO levels between foods packaged in glass jars with PVC gaskets and foods in cans containing ESBO in the can lacquer.
  • (6) The use of plastic or Parafilm gaskets for dry mounting was developed to facilitate the handling and examination of the stained cover slip preparations.
  • (7) The total efficiency could be up to 25 percent by improving the gasket to reduce the frictional force.
  • (8) The LCM uses a carbonated antacid tablet, a plastic bag with tap water, a candle, and a wide-mouthed glass jar provided with a tight-fitting metallic screw cap and a rubber gasket.
  • (9) Investigations carried out in a period in which rigors were particularly common showed the source of bacteria to be parts of the gasket system of the Kiil dialyser, areas that are inaccessible to disinfectants.
  • (10) Because the several components of syringes, (such as barrels, gasket seals, etc.)
  • (11) It has been determined that the deodorant capacity of the above gaskets is more than two times higher than that of its "washer filter" analog manufactured by the foreign "Coloplast" company.
  • (12) The specimen rod is supported on two rubber gaskets for vibration isolation, and motorized precision micrometers with encoder readouts for position monitoring drive the motions.
  • (13) Solutions were straightforward, involving gasket changes and o-ring resizing.
  • (14) Therefore rubber D-51A can be recommended to be used as pump gaskets.
  • (15) Previous studies have indicated that leaching of organic materials from rubber gaskets may have cytotoxic effects.
  • (16) Within 2 d, fully confluent monolayers form, and ZO-1 localizes in a continuous gasket-like fashion circumscribing all cells.
  • (17) If you loved the late-1990s PC version and would blow a gasket at its conversion into a Zynga-style game with in-app purchases, avoid this remake.
  • (18) Several studies on potential migrants from packaging materials, such as heat-seal adhesives, amber polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers, and rubber gaskets of aerosol valves, are presented to show that commonly encountered questions with regard to packaging materials used during product stability studies can also be answered in the same way.
  • (19) During August 1987, a large and concentrated infestation of Aedes albopictus was discovered on the property of a tire recapper and gasket manufacturer in Chicago, IL, in a densely populated urban environment.
  • (20) It was shown that the fractal dimensions measured by using the image analyzers for three curves (straight line, Koch curve, and Sierpinski gasket) were deviated by less than 2.1% from the theoretical dimension.

Lasket


Definition:

  • (n.) latching.

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