- rubber-necking
- noungoing about to look at places of interest• Syn: ↑sightseeing• Derivationally related forms: ↑rubberneck, ↑sightsee (for: ↑sightseeing)• Hypernyms: ↑look, ↑looking, ↑looking at
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
rubber-necking
Look at other dictionaries:
digi-necker — n. A driver who slows down when passing an accident to take a picture of the scene with a digital camera. [Blend of digital and rubbernecker.] digi necking pp. Example Citations: Rubberneckers attend to the spectacle so avidly that they… … New words
sightseeing — noun going about to look at places of interest (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑rubber necking • Derivationally related forms: ↑rubberneck (for: ↑rubber necking), ↑sightsee … Useful english dictionary
congestion — [n] blockage bottleneck*, clogging, crowdedness, crowding, excess, jam, mass, overcrowding, overdevelopment, overpopulation, press, profusion, rubber necking*, snarl up*, surfeit, surplus, traffic jam; concepts 230,432 Ant. opening … New thesaurus
looking — I noun 1. the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually (Freq. 1) he went out to have a look his look was fixed on her eyes he gave it a good looking at his camera does his looking for him • Syn: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
looking at — noun the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually (Freq. 3) he went out to have a look his look was fixed on her eyes he gave it a good looking at his camera does his looking for him • Syn: ↑look, ↑looking … Useful english dictionary
Deformation (engineering) — This article is about deformation in engineering. For a more rigorous treatment, see Deformation (mechanics). Compressive stress results in deformation which shortens the object but also expands it outwards. In materials science, deformation is a … Wikipedia
Die (manufacturing) — For the thread cutting tool, see Tap and die. A die is a specialized tool used in manufacturing industries to cut or shape material using a press. Like molds, dies are generally customized to the item they are used to create. Products made with… … Wikipedia
Polymer — Appearance of real linear polymer chains as recorded using an atomic force microscope on surface under liquid medium. Chain contour length for this polymer is 204 nm; thickness is 0.4 nm.[1] A polymer is a large molecule (macromolecule … Wikipedia
Deep drawing — An illustration of deep drawing, annotated in German … Wikipedia
Crazing — A Song dynasty Celadon vase with crazing glaze Crazing is a network of fine cracks on the surface of a material, for example in a glaze layer. Crazing is a phenomenon that frequently precedes fracture in some glassy thermoplastic polymers.… … Wikipedia
