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HYDRAULIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the study of hydraulics
Example:
hydraulic engineer
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
hydraulics (study of the mechanics of fluids)
Derivation:
hydraulics (study of the mechanics of fluids)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil)
Example:
hydraulic brakes
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
Context examples:
By profession I am a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Listen to this: ‘Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten o’clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was dressed in,’ etc., etc.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a very plain tale.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these fields and carrying out our plans.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The only point which I could not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press in excavating fuller’s-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out like gravel from a pit.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
