Hose

A hose is a flexible hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called pipes (the word pipe usually refers to a rigid tube, whereas a hose is usually a flexible one), or more generally tubing. The shape of a hose is usually cylindrical (having a circular cross section).

Hose design is based on a combination of application and performance. Common factors are size, pressure rating, weight, length, straight hose or coilhose, and chemical compatibility.

Hoses are made from one or a combination of many different materials. Applications mostly use nylon, polyurethane, polyethylene, PVC, or synthetic or natural rubbers, based on the environment and pressure rating needed. In recent years, hoses can also be manufactured from special grades of polyethylene (LDPE and especially LLDPE). Other hose materials include PTFE (Teflon), stainless steel and other metals.

Reinforced rubber hose

To achieve a better pressure resistance, hoses can be reinforced with fibers or steel cord. Commonly used reinforcement methods are braiding, spiraling, knitting and wrapping of fabric plies. The reinforcement increases the pressure resistance but also the stiffness. To obtain flexibility, corrugations or bellows are used. Usually, circumferential or helical reinforcement rings are applied to maintain these corrugated or bellowed structures under internal pressure.

Hose (clothing)

Hose are any of various styles of men's clothing for the legs and lower body, worn from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, when the term fell out of use in favor of breeches and stockings. (See also trousers.) The old plural form of "hose" was hosen. The French equivalent was chausses.

History

Early wool hose were fitted to the leg, and 15th century hose were often made particolored or mi-parti, having each leg a different color, or even one leg made of two colors. These early hose were footed, in the manner of modern tights, and were open from the crotch to the leg. When very short doublets were in fashion, codpieces were added to cover the front opening.

By the 16th century, hose had separated into two garments: upper hose or breeches and nether hose or stockings.

From the mid-16th to early 17th centuries, a variety of styles of hose were in fashion. Popular styles included:

Hose (album)

Hose is the eponymous debut album of Hose. It was released in 1983 on Def Jam.

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Hole

A hole is an opening.

Hole or holes may also refer to:

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Holes (Pint Shot Riot song)

"Holes" was the third single by Coventry-based indie rock band Pint Shot Riot. The single was the band's first to be released on 7" vinyl. The track later features on the band's debut EP Round One in 2009.

The track charted in the top 10 of the UK indie charts.

The track was featured on Soccer AM on 'Holes' to Goals Montage 4 October 2008

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Holes (novel)

Holes is a 1998 young adult mystery comedy novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2012 it was ranked number 6 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal.

Holes was adapted as a feature film of the same name by Walt Disney Pictures, released in 2003.

Plot

Present day

Stanley Yelnats IV is an overweight 14-year-old boy from a family of destitutes that is affected by "a hex," which they blame on at Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather". Stanley's latest adversity is to be wrongly accused of stealing a pair of shoes contributed to a children's orphanage by the baseball player Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston.

As retribution, Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile imprisonment and disciplinary facility which, unlike its name suggests, is in the middle of a sterile desert.