Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Impervious to air.
- To protect from injurious action of the air or of some of its ingredients, as by a suitable varnish applied to the material to be protected.
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- adjective
airtight
Etymologies
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Examples
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To-day a copy of a newspaper of any date between 1890 and 1970 is a rare and precious thing, which has to be protected from carbonization in an air-proof wrapper.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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• Keep foods tightly wrapped in air-proof and moisture-proof wraps and containers.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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• Keep foods tightly wrapped in air-proof and moisture-proof wraps and containers.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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• Keep foods tightly wrapped in air-proof and moisture-proof wraps and containers.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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• Keep foods tightly wrapped in air-proof and moisture-proof wraps and containers.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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No healthy clothing is absolutely air-proof, the access of the air through it being necessary to our health and comfort.
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No healthy clothing is absolutely air-proof, the access of the air through it being necessary to our health and comfort.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Owing to the importance of using the tonic, I have arranged to make it as inexpensive as possible and am prepared to furnish it (to users of the Cascade only) in one pound air-proof cans at the price of $1.00; by mail twenty cents extra.
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Crackers went well with this; and later on the coffee being boiled, they enjoyed a fragrant cup of Java, together with some cakes that had been put up in air-proof packages, and were as fresh as the day they left the New York bakery.
Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat St. George Rathborne
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The partitions, C and C ', are likewise of refractory brick, and are rendered as air-proof as possible.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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