cylinder
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈsɪlɪndər/
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cilindro
- The engineer calculated the volume of the cylinder to determine how much liquid it could hold.
- cylinder seal
- Babylonian cylinder
- inch-diameter cylinder
This thing is like a cylinder that rolls.
- This thing is like a cylinder that rolls.
- No, they took on exotic shapes like sheets and cylinders that looked a little tasty.
- Is the smell hardened and crystallized into a cylinder that they then roll?
- So you're saying that anything with that essential like like a squashed cylinder shape is a wheel?
- And these cylinders, the beam goes through the, the kind of axis of the cylinder.
- I'm going to add this cylinder power to the sphere power.
Examples
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A standard trap is a cylinder 12 cm in diameter and 60 cm long.
Academic text (1993) -
Well, uh, you can start by measuring 40 milliliters into that graduated cylinder.
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But let us take a cylinder that looks like this.
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Why a cup and not a cylinder that has a hole at the bottom?
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There must have been another cylinder down here.
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Whereas this green cylinder I did all with just one green.
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It's got to land on that cylinder.
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Now, outside the toy shop, he raised the cylinder and looked inside.
Fiction book (1998) -
We opted to prepare a plastic cylinder.
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A Twinkie is a nice, moist cylinder of goodness.
Compounds
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6.4
Metal cover that closes the top of an engine cylinder and holds valves and spark plugs
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5.4
A solid piece of metal in an engine that holds the cylinders where the pistons move and cooling passages
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4.6
A car part that holds brake fluid and pushes it to make the brakes work
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5.1
A tall, narrow container with lines to measure liquid amounts in science experiments
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A part in a car's brake system that holds and pushes brake fluid to make the brakes work
- Archaic
A printing machine where a cylinder rolls paper over a flat bed of letters to copy text
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A machine that sorts grain by kernel length using rotating cylinders
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A metal tube in a vehicle that holds fluid and uses a piston to stop the wheels
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A machine that separates whole grains from broken ones using a turning cylinder with small pockets
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cylinder comes from the Greek word kylindros, which meant 'roller'. Think of a can or tube that can roll — that round shape with straight sides is why this geometric solid is called a cylinder.