air-tight

ADJECTIVE
  1. having no weak points
    an airtight defense
    an airtight argument
  2. not allowing air or gas to pass in or out

How To Use air-tight In A Sentence

  • Be sure to refrigerate the starter culture in a clean, air-tight container.
  • Keep this strained wine in an air-tight container for another 22 days before use.
  • There were several cysts, and they appeared as though the inflammation attacked only the different lobes of the lungs, leaving others healthy between, -- Nature throwing out coagulable lymph around the diseased lobe, and forming thereby an air-tight cyst, cutting around the diseased lobe by suppuration, so that it could be carried off by absorption. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
  • All it takes is a tiny hole in an air-tight suit or a window left ajar in a supposedly air-tight lab, and you can wave goodbye to your friends, family and 100 million others.
  • The term caisson is sometimes applied to flat air-tight constructions used for raising vessels out of water for cleaning or repairs, by being sunk under them and then floated; but these floating caissons are more commonly known as pontoons, or, when air-chambers are added at the sides, as floating dry-docks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • So-called waterproofing processes, making the shoe air-tight as well as waterproof, should be avoided. Vitality Supreme
  • For a woman fleeing or hiding from a batterer, especially if she is trying to care for children at the same time, building an air-tight case on her own is simply unrealistic. Matthew Fraidin: Could More Public-Interest Lawyers in D.C. Help Prevent Domestic Tragedies?
  • I have kept one very conveniently in a vacuum desiccator over phosphorus pentoxide, but if of any size, the condenser deserves a box to itself, and this must be air-tight and provided with a drying reagent, so arranged that it can be removed through a manhole of some sort. On Laboratory Arts
  • The present method consists in the use of a common steam-boiler, of the capacity of from 100 to 150 gallons, from which the steam is conveyed by conductors into large wooden air-tight tubs, of 200 gallons capacity, containing the dried herb; from which it is conveyed, charged with the volatile principle of the plant, into a water-vat, containing the condenser. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • The mouth of this Still was closed by an air-tight cover, also of tin, called the Head, from which a tube of the same metal projected into a large keeve, or condenser, that was kept always filled with cool water by an incessant stream from the cascade we have described, which always ran into and overflowed it. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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