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CYLINDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cylinder" is a kind of...):
container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))
Holonyms ("cylinder" is a part of...):
Aqua-Lung; aqualung; scuba (a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A chamber within which piston moves
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cylinder" is a kind of...):
chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)
Meronyms (parts of "cylinder"):
intake valve (a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cylinder"):
brake cylinder; hydraulic brake cylinder; master cylinder (a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston)
Holonyms ("cylinder" is a part of...):
compressor (a mechanical device that compresses gasses)
block; cylinder block; engine block (a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine)
pump (a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("cylinder" is a kind of...):
solid (a three-dimensional shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cylinder"):
roll (anything rolled up in cylindrical form)
roller (a cylinder that revolves)
Derivation:
cylindric (having the form of a cylinder)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("cylinder" is a kind of...):
round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cylinder"):
brake drum; drum (a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes)
shank (cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill)
shank (cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head)
shank; stem (cylinder forming a long narrow part of something)
stalactite (a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave)
stalagmite (a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave)
barrel; drum (a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends)
pipe; tube (a hollow cylindrical shape)
Derivation:
cylindric (having the form of a cylinder)
Context examples:
A fullerene-like nanostructure that consists of graphene cylinders and exhibits an irregular horn-like shape.
(Nanohorn, NCI Thesaurus)
It is defined as the mass of an international prototype in the form of a platinum-iridium cylinder kept at Sevres in France.
(Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)
The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I think that the cylinders which you gave me contained more than you intended me to know; but I can see that there are in your record many lights to this dark mystery.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A device similar to a bushing but designed to reduce the linear friction between a piston and its cylinder.
(Piston Guide Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A solid composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) wrapped in a paper cylinder whereby one end is burned.
(Cigarette Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
The yarns are constructed from carbon nanotubes, which are hollow cylinders of carbon 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair.
(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
