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Definition of augers in English English dictionary
- plural of auger
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- To use an auger; to drill a hole using an auger
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- A snake or plumber's snake
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- A hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice, etc. for scientific study
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- A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge
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- A rotating drill with a screw threads that carries cuttings away from a drill hole
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- A tool used to bore holes in the ground, e.g. for fence posts
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- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
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- hand tool for boring holes
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- A rotary drill that uses a screw device to penetrate, break, and then transport the drilled material (coal)
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- {i} drill, tool that looks like a large corkscrew for drilling holes
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- Any boring bit that acts like a rotary chisel to shave out the wood as the tool progresses The screw-shanked spiral auger that lifts the shavings out of the deepening hole did not become common until about the 1820s Before this time, shell or nose augers required a centering, starting hole gouged into the surface of the wood before they could be started
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- A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet
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- (verb) to dig in, to grind one's face into the dirt
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- a tool for boring holes in soil; it is frequently used for extracting samples of soil for tests
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- Device for lifting materials Uses a rotating, enclosed screw which lifts the material as a result of the screwing action Used with some success for lifting fish and water together Not as flexible as a fish pump in that the angle of lift is restricted and means that the auger sometimes takes up too much space One advantage is that it can gently handle very large fish (in excess of 5kg), which most other types of fish transportation systems will not Also used for conveying feed to and from hoppers
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- a rotary drill for soft materials that utilizes a screw device to penetrate, break, and then transport the drilled material Auger-type devices are popular in soft coal To aid penetration and decrease wear on the auger rods, a hard-faced bit is used at the contact between drill and fresh material
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- In carpentry, a wood-boring tool used by a carpenter to bore holes
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- a carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood
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- A rotating drill having a screw thread that carries cuttings away from the face
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- A carpenter's tool used for boring holes in wood
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- A carpenters tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet
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- An exploratory/excavation device – essentially a drill bit – for extracting a sample of soil or sediment, or a sample of wood for dating
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- Flexible metal cable used to clean out drains by fishing the cable into the drain and breaking up the clog Hand and powered versions are available
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- a tool used for making a hole in wood or in the ground (a nauger, mistaken for an auger; nauger (11-17 centuries) from nafogar, from nafu + gar ; because it was originally used to make the hole in the hub of a wheel). Tool (or bit) used with a carpenter's brace for drilling holes, usually in wood. It looks like a corkscrew and produces extremely clean holes, almost regardless of how large the bit is. Expansive auger bits have adjustable blades with cutting edges and spurs that can be extended radially to cut large holes. Large augers are used to bore holes in soil for fence posts and telephone poles, or in ice for ice fishing. Horizontal augers as much as 8 ft (2.5 m) in diameter are used in coal mining
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- Spiral-shaped tool for boring holes in wood Also a drill bit
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- To crash into the ground, nose first
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- The Pierre Auger Project (named for the famous French physicist) Auger will consist of two giant air shower arrays One is under construction in Argentina The second will be in the northern hemisphere Each will cover 3000 km2 with 1600 water Cerenkov tanks (and associated fluorescence detectors) that can record about 6000 cosmic ray showers per year with energies above 1020eV The main goal is to study the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays This international project is led by Jim Cronin For more information, see J W Cronin, Nucl Phys Proc Suppl B471, 135 (1996); A A Watson, Phys Rept 333-334, 309 (2000); and http: //www auger org
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- A rotating, screw-type device that moves material through a cylinder In alcohol production, it is used to transfer grains from storage to the grinding site to the cooker
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- Hand operated screw drill used to bore holes in wood
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- A snake or plumbers snake
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- A tool for boring holes in wood, having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point and a handle fixed with right angles to the top of the shank
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- It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands
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- Device with a helical shaft that, when rotated, can be used to move material
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- Big crash, drilling into the dirt upon impact
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- A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod
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- An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water
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Turkish pronunciation
ôgırzPronunciation
/ˈôgərz/ /ˈɔːɡɜrz/
Etymology
[ 'o-g&r ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English, alteration of nauger, from Old English nafogAr; akin to Old High German nabugEr auger, Old English nafu nave, gAr spear; more at NAVE, GORE.Resimler
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