egg crating
See also: eggcrating and egg-crating
English
Verb
egg crating
- present participle of egg crate
Noun
egg crating (uncountable)
- Alternative form of egg crate
- textured surface or insert
- 1964, I.E.S. Lighting Review, page 89:
- This could have been avoided by the simple process of suspending egg crating made of timber or some other solid material painted black with the light fittings above it.
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- foam pad
- 2016, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, This House, →ISBN:
- One side of the wall had the foam egg crating attached with room for a small person to crawl inside.
- 2013, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, →ISBN, page 294:
- Granma was in her chair cushioned with egg crating, so she could fall over asleep whenever she wanted and the chair would catch her head.
- 2011, Christine A. Gleason, Sandra E Juul, Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, →ISBN:
- The seat can be padded with egg crating or 1-inch foam.
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- textured surface or insert
- Alternative form of egg-crating (plastic mat)
- 1989, Charles Marden Fitch & Barbara B. Pesch, Orchids for the Home and Greenhouse, →ISBN, page 54:
- My windowsill pebble trays are, for the most part, dimestore plastic drawer dividers; some have pebbles in them, others not, but all are filled with water and surmounted with rubberized sink racks or plastic egg crating which hold the pots.
- 1991, Bob Gordon, Orchid Seedling Care: With Special Emphasis on Water Quality:
- An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel.
- 2006, Reptiles - Volume 14, page 54:
- Placing the eggs in a sweaterbox, on plastic egg crating and over damp perlite, provides the necessary humidity without the danger of direct contact with moisture.
- 2013, Eugene L. Magad, Total Materials Management, →ISBN, page 375:
- Among the inner packings in use are expanded polystyrene (popcorn), plastic-encapsulated air (air bubbles), various types of paper products, foam-in-place, molded polystyrene, and corrugated partitions (egg crating).
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