1.
[syn: Babbitt metal, babbitt]
VERB (1)
1. line with a Babbitt metal;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Babbitt \Bab"bitt\, v. t.
To line with Babbitt metal.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
babbitt
n 1: an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for
bearings that reduces friction [syn: Babbitt metal,
babbitt]
v 1: line with a Babbitt metal
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "Babbitt":
Middle American, Philistine, anal character, arriviste, boeotian,
boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown,
compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist,
epicier, formalist, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan,
ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, methodologist,
middle-class type, middlebrow, model child, mucker, nouveau riche,
organization man, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist,
plastic person, precisian, precisianist, ribald, rough, roughneck,
rowdy, ruffian, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, upstart,
vulgarian, vulgarist, yes-man, yokel
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Babbitt, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 1670
Housing Units (2000): 801
Land area (2000): 105.651265 sq. miles (273.635508 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.063474 sq. miles (2.754385 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 106.714739 sq. miles (276.389893 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03106
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.669322 N, 91.919331 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55706
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Babbitt, MN
Babbitt