Talk:flange

Flag this article for rediculousness: "all of which are delightful." ?!?! What is that all about? Second sense: A woman's vagina? --Connel MacKenzie 07:48, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Pretty common in Britain, and lots of Urbandictionary hits. The girls I've talked to hate this word, finding in least. Wikipedia mentions it. --Expurgator t(c) 22:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Label as UK slang then? (Only if cites are found, of course.)  --Connel MacKenzie 17:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Added cites. I didn't label as UK, as in the search it also seemed to be current elsewhere. Jeffqyzt 02:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

rfvpassed. Andrew massyn 13:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

This term also refers to a type of audio effect used in music production. See Wikipedia.

flange
rfv-sense: collective noun for baboons. I find mentions not usage. Keep in appendix? DCDuring TALK 18:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I added 1 cite showing usage; I will try to drum up some more. sewnmouthsecret 14:39, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I find these things cute, but often not used. Excellent Appendix material anyway. We need more of them in the Appendices. DCDuring TALK
 * Flange of baboons is (famously) an invented collective noun, first coined for and used in a sketch on the comedy TV series "Not the 9 O'clock News" with Mel Smith and Rowan Atkinson back in the 1980s (if memory serves). Due in part to love of that show, and possibly in part to ignorance of the traditional collective noun for baboons ('troop'), the collective noun 'flange' has been adopted by many zoologists working in that field, as well as by others. It's even referenced in Ask Oxford - http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/collective/b/?view=uk Llykstw
 * There's an erudite discussion of this issue, with some references to published works, here - http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=80&start=0&sid=9232b2053645bff6dbcf4f775894214c
 * At the very least, this constitutes a separate etymology. --EncycloPetey 18:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Verb listed as a noun?
"An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees." One of the citations is using it as a verb, not a noun. Equinox ◑ 21:43, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Verbal sense missing
Cf. flanging. --Tropylium 17:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Musical term
For electronic musicians in the years spanning 1940-2000, "flange" was a word to describe a musical effect.

Electronic music was invented using reel-to-reel tape recorders (first using magnetized wire and then magnetized tape). One effect was to record sounds, simultaneously, on two tape recorders and then to play the sounds back in unison. By touching the rim (or flange) of one of the machines' reels, it was possible to slow the speed and to create an echo or even contrapuntal effect. Later, this effect was applied to tape loops by composer Steve Reich, among other noted composers, to create mesmerizing compositions that were among the early experiments that lead to minimalist music. When applied to tape loops, it was described as "phasing" - or "flanging" - music in and out of synchronicity.

Thus, another 1970s example of shifting a noun (flange) to a verb (to flange, flanging).

Here is a reference to this practice in Robert Fink's book, 'Repeating Ourselves.' [http://books.google.com/books?id=khosyjk0ShYC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=reich+phasing+flange&source=bl&ots=f5fiJHEYyh&sig=KzkPL8l1GsGhz_fXbvs1buvFWow&hl=en&ei=xkqlTtORF6ni0QGb5unDAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=reich%20phasing%20flange&f=false