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forced-air - definition and meaning
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STR8FAN is easily interpeted as “my car has a forced-air straight-8 engine”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes 2010
For example, electric baseboard heaters and the ductwork in forced-air systems both click and clank as they heat up and cool down.
Is your house haunted—or is it just drafty? 2010
Key upgrades included replacing the old oil furnace, which produced steam heat, with a high-efficiency gas furnace and a forced-air system, and insulating all the ducts and hot-water pipes.
Wendy Gordon: Where Everything's Waiting for You (Downtown) Wendy Gordon 2011
One difference: After a bulb breaks, the EPA suggests leaving central forced-air heating and air conditioning off for several hours; the previous recommendation was 15 minutes.
EPA revises its recommendations on cleaning up broken CFLs 2011
Little Dorrit's last dozen words, their forced-air consonants (recalling "affliction of vain breath" in Shelley) jostling each other as "the froward and the vain, fretted, and chafed" in the London rat race.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008
Other common sources include forced-air heating and cooling systems, pets and paper.
How to get dust under control Gene Austin 2010
The optional engine recommended by this column is the turbocharged (forced-air ) Duramax 6. 6-liter diesel V-8 (397 horsepower, 765 foot-pounds of torque), linked to a heavy duty, six-speed Allison transmission.
Specs on the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 LT crew-cab pickup 2010
STR8FAN is easily interpeted as “my car has a forced-air straight-8 engine”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes 2010
The barn used to have conventional forced-air heat from three furnaces, supplemented by a wood stove.
When its Loudoun home burned, an inspired family launched a grand barn raising 2010
Prelude may well hope the blessing is contagious, there and then in the forced-air burst of the so-far breezy enough "Oh."
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008
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