manifold : Idioms & Phrases


exhaust manifold

  • noun a manifold that receives exhaust gases from the cylinders and conducts them to the exhaust pipe
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inlet manifold

  • noun manifold that carries vaporized fuel from the carburetor to the inlet valves of the cylinders
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intake manifold

  • noun a manifold consisting of a pipe to carry fuel to each cylinder in an internal-combustion engine
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manifold paper

  • noun a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies
    manifold.
    • an original and two manifolds
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Manifold writing

  • a process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred.
Webster 1913