| A steel tape used by electricians to push through an electrical conduit and pull back the conductors being installed.
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| An end butt splice strengthened by pieces nailed on the sides.
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| A means of installing electrical wiring in existing inaccessible hollow spaces of buildings with a minimum damage to the building finish.
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| An opening at the exposed edge of a roofing ply sheet where the asphalt bond is lacking or the felt is wrinkled.
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| A narrow crack, usually long and deep, caused by breaking or parting
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| The space inside a fitting required by a pipe.
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| 1. A device used for connecting pipes together. 2. An accessory such as a locknut, bushing or other part of a wiring system which is intended primarily to perform a mechanical rather than an electrical function.
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| A protective coating applied to drawings in crayons, pastel, charcoal, and pencil, usually by spraying, to prevent colors from rubbing off.
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| Assets of a more or less permanent nature whose useful life is more than one year, such as fixtures, equipment, real estate, and trucks.
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| A pump in which the displacement per cycle cannot be varied.
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| A door, of a pair, that is normally kept in the closed position.
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| A beam fixed upon a support which prevents its rotation.
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| A stipulated lump sum fee.
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| Liabilities that are carried for over a one year period, such as mortgage, and equipment payments.
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| sash or glass that is immovably mounted in a wall.
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| Attached or fastened in place by nails, screws, bolts, conduit, piping systems, or other means.
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| A pipe connecting several fixtures with the water supply.
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| A mounting frame built into a wall to support a plumbing fixture.
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| A wall mounted frame for mounting and support of a plumbing fixture.
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| The drain pipe from the trap of a fixture to where the pipe joins with any other drain pipe.
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| A design factor to determine the load-producing value from a given fixture so that the drainage piping is large enough to carry the liquids and wastes; for instance, the unit flow rate from fixtures is assumed to be one cubic foot or 7.5 gallons of liquid per minute; fixtures are rated as multiples of this unit of flow.
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| see Lighting Fixture.
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| see Plumbing Fixture.
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| 1. See Flagstone. 2. End of hog brush bristle which divides into two or more branches like a tree; flagging provides brush with ability to hold paint.
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| 1. Flagstone paving. 2. See Flag, 2.
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| A projecting pole run out from a structure to provide a flagpole.
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| A pole used for raising and displaying flags.
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| A hard flat, usually rectangular, stone slab used for paving; also called a flag.
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| A small flat wood particle of predetermined dimensions, uniform thickness, with fiber direction essentially in the plane of the flake; in overall character resembling a small piece of veneer; produced by special equipment for use in the manufacture of flakeboard.
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| A type of particleboard composed of flakes bonded together with a synthetic resin of other suitable binder.
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