<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A projecting rim, collar, or ring on a shaft, pipe, machine housing, etc., cast or formed to give additional strength, stiffness, or supporting area, or to provide a place for the attachment of other objects.</li><li>A broad ridge or pair of ridges projecting from the edge of a rolled metal shape generally at right angles, in order to strengthen or stiffen it.</li><li>A ring or collar, usually provided with holes for bolts, and screwed or welded over the end of a tube or pipe to permit other objects to be attached to it.</li><li>(In plumbing) A plate or flat ring bolted to the flange at the end of a length of pipe to close the end or to connect it with the flange of another such length: blind flange; spectacle flange.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>Flanged: To project like, or take the form of, a flange.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>