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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Air-tight

· Air·-tight · IPA
01 a. So tight as to be impermeable to air or other gases; as, an air-tight cylinder; -- said of containers.
  1. 1.
    So tight as to be impermeable to air or other gases; as, an air-tight cylinder; -- said of containers.
  2. 2.
    of such close construction as to have little leakage of air in or out; -- said of structures
  3. 3.
    so thoroughly convincing as to be insusceptible to doubt; having no apparent counterarguments; -- of arguments or assertions
02 n. A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.
  1. 1.
    A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off.[Colloq. U. S.]