The word "spanner" is correct and usable in written English.
The word "spanner" is an informal term for a wrench. You can use it to refer to the tool in both everyday and technical writing. Example Sentence: I was able to unscrew the pipe with my spanner.
The UCI rulebook is a somewhat impenetrable and daunting document but on issues of accepting anything but a bidon or spanner from another team, the rules are crystal clear.
Most people would agree, though, that even being among the poorest and worst-run countries in the European Union, membership is better than the alternative, for them - and for the Union.But using a hammer when you need a spanner is a mistake.
BESIDES throwing a spanner in the privatisation works, India's Supreme Court intervened this month on even weightier matters: the dangers of impunity, the legitimacy of the government in one of India's most prosperous states, and the integrity of the judicial system itself.
Telecom New Zealand is likely to make a bid now.Elf Aquitaine of France threw a spanner in the Norwegian works with a cash offer of around NKr17 billion ($2.1 billion) for Saga Petroleum, Norway's third-largest oil producer, just when the two largest, Statoil and Norsk Hydro, thought they had a joint deal.
When expressed at high levels in a plant infected with maize-streak virus, the modified protein outcompetes the normal version, throwing a spanner into the works of viral assembly.
And that has thrown an American-made spanner (ie, wrench) into the works.The mercantilist rule helps nobody.
Can a mechanic actually reach a particular component to replace it, and is it physically possible to turn the spanner?
The current pre-occupation with engendering a new ABS market so as to buy its, currently, non-existent wares smacks of desperation.While the ECB's board is seeking ways to overcome this operational problem, opponents of QE throw another spanner in the works.
Whichever it is, obsessive owners line up their screwheads in the same direction in an attempt to impress equally obsessive judges who will mark down a toolbox if it has a single wrong spanner in it.In this section The good, the bad, the rusty Licensed to thrill A woman's eye The Dean Gallery ReprintsLeading the first group the shabbies are the British and some other Europeans.
No human could keep up with that.In this section A spanner in the productivity miracle Last orders Mixed signals Unprofitable policies Insuring Africa Slaves of the state Out of puff Averse to reality ReprintsEfforts to cut the number of reporters began in 1990, when there were still 300 of them.
