cylinder

Meaning

Noun

1. A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
2. A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
3. Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
4. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
5. The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
6. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
7. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
8. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
9. The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

Verb

To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.

Synonyms

tube

barrel

roller

pipe

column

roll

piston chamber

shaft

bottle

swift

cylindrical surface

shell

🐚

drum

🥁

reel

cylindroid

drying

flute

🪈

gas tank

graduated cylinder

handle

jar

🫙

jug

kong

magazine

main body

measuring cylinder

platen

pole

pump

quiver

reservoir

rod

rolling pin

shank

spindle

spool

steam cylinder

stem

syringe

💉

telescope

🔭

top hat

top-hat

valse

waltz

cl

roller’

air cylinder

podetium

stylidium

cylindrical object

seek area

draw tube

circular column

steel cylinder

storage calorifier

engine cylinder

round column

cylindrical post

volumetric cylinder

graduate cylinder

measuring cylinder with spout

Fellata

lens cone

Fula

Fulah

bar

bolt

bomb

💣

bowl

bundle

canister

carboy

casing

coil

container

cyl

Translations

Zylinder

cylindre

cilindro

cilinder

silindir

cylinder

Walze

rol

Rolle

rouleau

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪlɪndə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros), from κυλίνδω (kulíndō) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calander and calender.

Sentences

A large portion of the cylinder had been uncovered .

The end of the cylinder was still as Ogilvy and Henderson had left it .