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  2. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    air tight Very attractive [5] airedale Unattractive man [5] alarm clock Chaperone [5] alderman Man's pot-belly or simply a prominent belly of a man; see bay window [7] alibi Box of flowers or candy [5] all to the good Everything is all right [8] all wet Erroneous idea or individual e.g. "He's all Wet" [6] alley worker A woman thief who robs men ...

  3. List of stoves - Wikipedia

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    A kitchen stove with oven that operates using flammable gas. This is a list of stoves.A stove is an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated, or to heat the stove itself and items placed on it.

  4. Glossary of HVAC terms - Wikipedia

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    The condenser is the hot side of an air conditioner or heat pump. Condensers are heat exchangers, and can transfer heat to air or to an intermediate fluid (such as water or an aqueous solution of ethylene glycol) to carry heat to a distant sink, such as ground (earth sink), a body of water, or air (as with cooling towers). constant air volume

  5. Central heating - Wikipedia

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    Sylvester's warm-air stove, 1819. William Strutt designed a new mill building in Derby with a central hot air furnace in 1793, although the idea had been already proposed by John Evelyn almost a hundred years earlier. Strutt's design consisted of a large stove that heated air brought from the outside by a large underground passage.

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  7. Gas burner - Wikipedia

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    Propane burner used with forced air into a metal melting furnace. Propane burner with a Bunsen flame Oxy-Acetylene for cutting through steel rails Flame of a gas and oil, in a dual burner A gas burner is a device that produces a non-controlled flame by mixing a fuel gas such as acetylene , natural gas , or propane with an oxidizer such as the ...

  8. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    If you cannot be good, be careful; If you cannot beat them, join them; If you cannot live longer, live deeper; If you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen; If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll always ask for a glass of milk; If you think that you know everything, then you're a Jack ass

  9. AGA cooker - Wikipedia

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    The 2011 model, the Total Control, [9] uses the same radiant heat to cook, but is designed to be switched off like a regular cooker when not in use, using far less energy. Oil burning models can be fitted with a modern pressure jet oil burner in place of the standard wick burner which burns the fuel more efficiently and so reduces oil consumption.