Cylinder is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CYLINDER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to provide with a tubular chamber
NOUN:
• a solid geometrical figure with straight parallel sides and a circular or oval cross section.
• a solid or hollow body, object, or part having the shape of a cylinder.
• a piston chamber in a steam or internal combustion engine.
• a cylinder-shaped container holding liquefied gas under pressure.
• a rotating metal roller in a printing press.
• a cylinder seal.
• solid or hollow body with straight sides and circular ends
• A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
• The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
• Any hollow body of cylindrical form
• The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
• The barrel of an air or other pump.
• The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
• The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
• The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
• a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
• a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
• a chamber within which piston moves
• a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to furnish with a cylinder (a chamber in an engine)

Words related to CYLINDER

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Words that contain CYLINDER

cylinders15 cylindered17 cylindering18 semicylinder20 semicylinders21 multicylinder21

How to use CYLINDER in a sentence

• The bath was a cylinder some five feet in depth and about two in diameter, with thin double walls, the space between which was filled with an apparatus of small pipes.
• This consists of a spring inclosed in a brass cylinder, and requires winding up before it is used, and sometimes, also, during the operation of roasting.
• The valve casing is sometimes cast upon the cylinder, and it is generally covered with a door which may be removed to permit the inspection of the faces.
• On some engines it is located on the top or at the side of the cylinder and will work equally well.
• If you thoroughly understand the working of the steam, you can readily detect any defect in your cylinder or steam chest, by the use of your cylinder cocks.
• It is the amount of opening the port shows on steam end of cylinder when the engine is on dead center.
• The injection of water into the cylinder is usually known as the Colladon idea.
• An iron water-tight cylinder was constructed for its transport, in which, with much toil, the obelisk was encased and floated.
• We may deal with a metal spring, or with a mass of gas contained in a cylinder fitted with a piston upon which the weight may be placed.
• The cylinder had flung around like a wheel, but the sounds were those of a toy.
• The sound of a six-shooter was music to him, and the potency contained in the polished cylinder filled with blunt-nosed slugs was something that he could appreciate.
• Now this machine, consisting of cylinder, piston, water, and fire, is the steam-engine in its most elementary form.
• It was over 20 inches in diameter, the shell of the cylinder being perhaps 7 inches thick and 3 in width.
• Let the engine be lightly loaded, so that only a small portion of the boiler pressure will need to be admitted to the cylinder.
• Five seats away, Tom stacked his examination sheets neatly, twisted them into a cylinder and inserted them in the tube.
• This cylinder was made of a mixture of clay and sand, with the addition of hay and straw.
• Now set fire to the cylinder or cone at its upper part.
• Ed True emptied his cylinder and cursed and began filling it again.
• For this it will generally have to remain in the drying cylinder for about five hours.
• It was a revolving black cylinder with vertical slits, on the inside of which paper strips with pictures of moving objects in successive phases were placed.

Similar words containing CYLIND without suffix er

cylinders15 cylindric17 cylindered17 cylindrite16 cylindroid17 cylindering18 cylindrical19 cylindrites17 cylindroids18 cylindricity23 cylindriform23 semicylinder20 cylindraceous21 cylindrically24 semicylinders21 multicylinder21 cylindricality25 cylindricities22 cylindricalness23 semicylindrical25

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