A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, usually alcoholic beverages; a small barrel or cask is known as a keg.
Barrels have a variety of uses, including storage of liquids such as water, oil, and alcohol. They are also employed to hold maturing beverages such as wine, cognac, armagnac, sherry, port, whiskey, beer, arrack, and sake. Other commodities once stored in wooden casks include gunpowder, meat, fish, paint, honey, nails, and tallow.
Modern wooden barrels for wine-making are made of French common oak (Quercus robur), white oak (Quercus petraea), American white oak (Quercus alba), more exotic is mizunara oak (Quercus crispula), and recently Oregon oak (Quercus garryana) has been used.
Someone who makes traditional wooden barrels is called a cooper. Today, barrels and casks can also be made of aluminum, stainless steel, and different types of plastic, such as HDPE.
Early casks were bound with wooden hoops and in the 19th century these were gradually replaced by metal hoops that were stronger, more durable and took up less space.
Barrel has also been used as a standard size of measure, referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, in the UK and Ireland, a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of 36 imperial gallons (160 L; 43 US gal), and is distinguished from other unit measurements, such as firkins, hogsheads, and kilderkins. Wine was shipped in barrels of 119 litres (31 US gal; 26 imp gal). A barrel of oil, defined as 42 US gallons (35 imp gal; 160 L), is still used as a measure of volume for oil, although oil is no longer shipped in barrels. The barrel has also come into use as a generic term for a wooden cask of any size.
Dyson may refer to:
- Dyson (surname), people with the surname Dyson
- Dyson (company), a Singaporean multinational home appliances company founded by James Dyson
- Dyson (crater), a crater on the Moon
- Dyson (operating system), a Unix general-purpose operating system derived from Debian using the illumos kernel, libc, and SMF init system
- Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures most or all of its power output
- Dyson tree, a hypothetical plant suggested by physicist Freeman Dyson
- Eufloria (formerly called Dyson), a video game based on the idea of Dyson trees
- USS Dyson (DD-572), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1942 to 1947
- NOAAS Oscar Dyson (R 224), an American fisheries and oceanographic research ship in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 2005
- Dysons, an Australian bus operator
- Dyson, a character in the Canadian television series Lost Girl
- The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, often referred to as "Dyson"
A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task. Although many animals use simple tools, only human beings, whose use of stone tools dates back hundreds of millennia, have been observed using tools to make other tools.
Early human tools, made of such materials as stone, bone, and wood, were used for the preparation of food, hunting, the manufacture of weapons, and the working of materials to produce clothing and useful artifacts and crafts such as pottery, along with the construction of housing, businesses, infrastructure, and transportation. The development of metalworking made additional types of tools possible. Harnessing energy sources, such as animal power, wind, or steam, allowed increasingly complex tools to produce an even larger range of items, with the Industrial Revolution marking an inflection point in the use of tools. The introduction of widespread automation in the 19th and 20th centuries allowed tools to operate with minimal human supervision, further increasing the productivity of human labor.
By extension, concepts that support systematic or investigative thought are often referred to as "tools" or "toolkits".
by Emma
I wasn’t sure if I was ready to invest that amount of money in a hair tool, but I’ve always done my own colour and started cutting my own hair during lockdown, so I don’t really spend much on my hair….then my hairdryer got knocked on the floor and broke, just as this was on QVQ – fate!
The first couple of times I used it, I really loved the brushes so I thought I’d probably be better sending it back and buying a drying brush. Then I practised with the wands for a while – WOWZER!! Once you get the hang of it, the look you get is so professional, so bouncy, and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how it looks. It does relax a wee bit over time, but even the following day, I’ve still got a really nice style.
For reference, my hair is layered, shoulder length, fine but lots of it. Straight at the front and quite curly at the back (I know, weird). This piece of kit does an amazing job with all parts, lengths, layers, straight and curls.
I now use the brushes for day to day use and the wands if I’m going out.
Down side – it is a phenomenal amount of money to spend, but I’ve justified it to myself.
by Buster
I have owned my airwrap for at least 18 months now maybe longer, the curls that you get from this airwrap is amazing. It takes a few attempts when you first get your airwrap to curl your hair properly but you will soon get into the swing of things and have amazing curls in no time. I use moose in my hair along with heat protector. You won’t be disappointed with this product. If the airwrap goes off this is usually because the filters as I’m calling them at the bottom of the wand needs cleaning, in your kit you will find a grey ring type comb rub this around the holes at the bottom of the wand and it cleans it for you it takes around 20 seconds to clean the filter.
by Lina
I received mine in a poast yesterday!! Tried it straight straight away and must say OMG WOW from the brushes to a curling barrels the results are amazing and my hair so silky and smooth!! Highly recommend.
by Jen
I have the dyson hairdryer which I thought was a lot of money and ummed and arhed about that for nearly 2 years best ever hairdryer worth every penny…..
I have never been able to blowdry my hair I always feel like a I need a third hand ! I’ve tried tongs airbrushes and always ended up in a tangled mess!
So to the airwrap long barrel not only is it easy to use it is effective – I have naturally long curly hair
– I take off the wet with the hairdryer attachment brilliant straighten with the paddle brush and then use one of the barrells – I found the easiest way was to do one side of my head and then change barrel to do otherside.Time taken about 25 minutes from start to finish which I am sure I will get quicker at..and another plus leaves your hair feeling really soft and looks healthy and shiny.
I thought I maybe sending it back as I didn’t think it would be as easy to use as on the presentation – This one is a stayer
– Yes it is a lot of money but I know I will be using it a lot unlike all the hair wands tongs curlers barrell which just sit and collect dust.
I highly recommend this product
by Hana
I must say i have never experienced anything like it! I had extremely frizzy and dry hair that lacked shine and moisture. The Dyson Airwrap has completely transformed my hair into glossy voluptuous locks! I honestly look like i just walked out the hair salon. However i just want to point out i notice most people have complained that the curls fall out super fast and i sort of agree but i think what the Dyson Airwrap intended to do was give you more of a bouncy blowout look with a subtle curl rather then tight curls. If you are looking for strong curls i would suggest styling your hair with a GHD flat iron as it is probably more effective in achieving that look. Overall as a everyday styling tool i’m rooting for the Dyson Airwrap as its quick and easy, tames frizz, gives shine and overall gives your hair body and movement