cylindern.
/ˈsɪlɪndə/ I. Geometrical and other non-mechanical uses.† 3. A kind of portable sun-dial; = chilindre n.
1.
a. Geometry. A solid figure of which the two ends are equal and parallel circles, and the intervening curved surface is such as would be traced out by a straight line moving parallel to itself with its ends in the circumferences of these circles.If the direction of this straight line be perpendicular to the planes of the circles, the figure is a right cylinder; if not, an oblique cylinder.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun]
cylinder1570
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > cylinder
cylinder1570
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 317v A cylinder is a solide or bodely figure which is made, when one of the sides of a rectangle parallelogramme, abiding fixed, the parallelogramme is moued about.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 340 The proportion betwene the Cylinder..& the Sphære or globe conteined in the same.
1647 H. More Insomn. Philos. ix A duskish Cylindre through infinite space It did project.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 21 Cut our Bread into Cones, Cylinders..and..other Mathematical Figures.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator ii. 100 A cylinder is a solid body of the character of a prism, but its ends are circles.
b. Geometry. The solid generated by a straight line moving always parallel to itself and describing any fixed curve (not necessarily a circle).
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > cylinder > with any curve as a base
cylinder1877
1877 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Integral Calculus (ed. 3) ix. §168 When the base..is a closed curve of any form..the surface generated is called a cylinder.
1877 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Integral Calculus (ed. 3) ix. Ex. 12 The axis of a right circular cylinder.
2.
a. Any body or object of cylindrical form (either solid or hollow); in quot. a1661 applied to a cylindrical jewel worn in the ear. axial cylinder = axis-cylinder n. at axis n.1 Compounds 2; renal or urinary cylinder = renal or urinary cast: see cast n. 30c.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > cylindrical object
rundle1565
roller1567
roundel1585
cylinder1641
bolea1651
1641 T. Hobbes Lett. in Wks. (1845) VII. 457 Such matter as the cylinder is made of.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 21 Wed and be mute. Thy silence and his fear With rich cylinders then shall grace thine ear.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 35 The cylinder of bark was found lined with layers of new wood.
1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain 44 The axial cylinder of each nerve being surrounded by medullary matter.
b. A cylindrical container, spec. one for liquefied or compressed gas.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > cylindrical
drum1785
cylinder1791
gas cylinder1807
bottle1868
spill1895
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. iii. iii. 177 I poured the decoctions into glass cylinders.
1889 S. S. Wallian tr. J. N. Demarquay Ess. on Med. Pneumatol. vi. 245 Carbon dioxide…may also be had in all the larger cities, compressed in iron cylinders.
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 247/1 Gas cylinders. Compressed gases are sent out in steel cylinders.
1935 Discovery Dec. 361/1 The allied gas, butane, compressed similarly in cylinders, is now in frequent use for gas-cookers etc.
1969 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 760/1 Deluxe stove... (Cylinders not incl.)... Economy camp stove. Includes two disposable propane cylinders.
1977 J. Bowyer Central Heating ii. 13 The cylinder is often in an airing cupboard.
c. A cylindrical record for a phonograph. Also attributive.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > cylinder
record1878
cylinder1891
waxing1936
1891 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 28 Feb. (1920) 297 Ask them on what terms they will rent me a phonograph for 3 months and furnish me cylinders enough to carry 75,000 words.
1893 Harper's Mag. Jan. 214/2 It's just a phonograph... It don't seem to be exactly in order. Perhaps the cylinder's got dry.
1907 Pearson's Mag. Jan. (advt.) You cannot get the best results from any talking machine without using Columbia Disc or Cyclinder Records.
1956 R. Gelatt Fabulous Phonogr. ii. 17 Edison cylinders could be shaved and used over and over again while gramophone cylinders had to be discarded much more quickly.
1967 Amer. Notes & Queries Sept. 15/1 Booth's wax cylinder recording of Othello's speech to the Senate.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial
chilindrec1386
dialc1425
sundial1555
clocka1562
cylinder1593
horoscope1623
compass-dial1632
moon dial1664
ring dial1667
heliotrope1669
pole-dial1669
sciatheric1682
spot dial1687
polar dial1688
sun clock1737
meridian ring1839
solarium1842
journey-ring1877
scratch dial1914
1593 T. Fale Horologiographia To Rdrs. sig. A3v The making of the Horologicall Cylindre.
4.
a. A cylindrical or somewhat barrel-shaped stone, pierced longitudinally for suspension from the wrist, used as a seal by the Babylonians and Assyrians, and incised with figures, symbols, and cuneiform (or occasionally Aramaic) characters.
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1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. Introd. p. xxv A few cylinders and gems..from Assyria and Babylonia.
b. A barrel-shaped, hollow object of baked clay, usually of considerable size, covered with cuneiform writing and buried under the foundations of Babylonian and Assyrian temples.
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1857 W. K. Loftus Trav. Chaldæa & Susiana 130 This discovery at Múgeyer convinced him that the commemorative cylinders of the founders were always deposited at the corners of Babylonian edifices.
II. In Mechanics.
5. Applied more or less specifically to many cylindrical parts of machines, etc. (with reference either to the internal chamber or external surface); a revolving roller in a lock.e.g. The bore of a gun barrel, the part of a revolver which contains the chambers for the cartridges; the barrel of a pump in which the piston works; the glass barrel of an electrical machine; a cylindrical revolving part in a loom, or a carding machine; a revolving roller in a lock, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > cylinders
cylinder?a1560
drum1744
reel1791
reel1825
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > bore
cylinder?a1560
bore1572
concave1595
concavity1669
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > other parts
studdlelOE
staff1338
trendle14..
trindle1483
cylinder?a1560
harness1572
mail1731
mounture1731
leaf1807
march1807
dropbox1823
neck-twine1827
mounting1835
shaft1839
Jack1848
selvage-protector1863
serpent1878
take-up motiona1884
swell1894
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > parts for reducing friction
bearing1734
friction-wheel1772
friction-roller1793
friction-ball1813
cylinder1819
screw-down1864
ball bearing1867
needle roller1935
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxx. sig. Iiv Hauing respecte to the length of the pæce, waighte of the Bullet..proportion of the concaue Cylinders.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Proem 13 The Pump consists of four parts, a hollow Cylindre, a Sucker, a handle..and a Valve.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 58 If the mouth of the Piece be grown wider then the rest of the Cylinder within by often shooting.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Charged Cylinder..that part which receives the Charge of Powder and Shot..Vacant Cylinder, that part of the Hollow which remains empty, when the Gun is Charg'd.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXI. at Locks The whole mechanism of the lock, consisting of an interior cylinder or barrel..with its appendages.
1851 Illustr. London News 6 Sept. 275/1 On his fifth visit, he had succeeded in..turning the cylinder a quarter round..when the instrument..slipped... He then had to readjust the cylinder..and on the day on which he did so..opened the lock.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 392 Colt's revolvers..If the hammer be lowered in the pin, the cylinder is prevented from revolving.
1894 [see cylinder lock n. at Compounds 3]. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 269/2 The cylinder..or the part in which the key operates, consists of an outer barrel which is fixed to the door and a cylindrical plug which is rotated by the key.
1972 How Things Work I. 234 Another..type of cylinder lock is the disc tumbler lock, in which the locking action is provided..by movable discs which lock the cylinder.
6. The cylindrical chamber in which the steam (or other fluid) acts upon the piston. By extension, applied to the corresponding chamber of rotary engines which is sometimes of an annular form. to function (or click, hit, operate, etc.) on all (or four, six, etc.) cylinders, of an internal-combustion engine: to be working at full power; hence figurative, to function properly, to be in good form; so to miss on all (or four, etc.) cylinders, to be working badly, to be in bad condition.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > cylinders
cylinder1697
working cylinder1787
indicator-cylinder1875
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > rotary or radial > parts of
cylinder1830
maneton1919
master rod1922
the world > action or operation > operate [verb (intransitive)] > properly
to function (or click, hit, operate, etc.) on all (or four, six, etc.) cylinders1912
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > operate internal-combustion engine [verb (intransitive)] > of internal-combustion engine: run > on specific number of cylinder
to function (or click, hit, operate, etc.) on all (or four, six, etc.) cylinders1912
1697 D. Papin in Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 483 He proposes the..turning a small Surface of Water into Vapour, by Fire applied to the bottom of the Cylinder that contains it, which Vapour forces up the Plug in the Cylinder.
1753 F. Blake in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 200 The best Proportions for Steam engine Cylinders.
1782 Watt Specif. Patent 1321 3 The said piston is suspended by a rod..capable of sliding through a hole in the cover of the cylinder.
1830 J. Millington Mech. Philos. 417 Newcomen's engine was the first in which a truly bored cylinder with a well-fitting piston was employed.
1893 Engineer LXXV. 574 That will depend on the total amount of work done in the cylinder by expansion.
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch xii. 269 So the best infielder takes time to fit into the infield of a Big League club and have it hit on all four cylinders again.
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 72 The needle on the rev.-counter quivered to the left as the revolutions dropped, and the engine missed on first one, then two cylinders.
1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water ii. 38 He had tended..to undernourish his spiritual self. He had given it the short end, and it was missing, he knew, on several cylinders.
1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water xv. 245 His smiling face, taken in conjunction with the bottle of wine which he carried, conveyed to Gordon Carlisle the definite picture of a libertine operating on all six cylinders.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xxi. 228 The old preux chevalier spirit was functioning on all six cylinders.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 96/1 A sure sign that you are clicking on all cylinders.
1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 249/3 Only when he [sc. an actor] allows himself to play deliberately on all cylinders does he stage a dazzling display.
1960 T. McLean Kings of Rugby 122 Tries which set the whole of the Lions' backline clicking on all cylinders.
7. Printing.
a. The engraved hollow metal roller used in printing calico, etc.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > cylinder
cylinder1764
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > equipment
rolling press1675
cylinder1764
surface roller1815
colour plate1819
colour pan1834
hand block1835
sieve1839
toby tub1842
wheelbarrow-machine1856
tension-rail1890
1764 Fryer Specif. Patent 810 [Calico Printing] The invention is performed by means of engraved copper cylinders.
1790 Nicholson Specif. Patent 1748 8 A is the printing cylinder covered with woollen cloth, and B is the inking cylinder with its distributing rollers.
b. A similar roller used in letter-press printing for inking the type (now inking-roller), pressing the paper against the type, or carrying the type or printing surface.
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1818 Cowper Specif. Patent 4194 2 Conveying the..paper from one printing cylinder to another.
1858 Applegath Specif. Patent 372 Comparatively few printing rollers can be arranged round the cylinder carrying the type.
8. Watchmaking. The cylindrical recess on the verge of the balance in a horizontal escapement.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of
barrel1591
motion1605
bezel1616
fusee1622
string1638
crown wheel1646
out-case1651
watch-box1656
nuck1664
watchwork1667
balance-wheel1669
box1675
dial wheel1675
counter-potence1678
pendulum-balance1680
watch-case1681
pillar1684
contrate teeth1696
pinion of report1696
watch-hook1698
bob-balance1701
half-cock1701
potence1704
verge1704
pad1705
movable1709
jewel1711
pendant1721
crystal1722
watch-key1723
pendulum spring1728
lock spring1741
watch-glass1742
watch-spring1761
all-or-nothing piece1764
watch hand1764
cylinder1765
cannon?1780
cannon1802
stackfreed1819
pillar plate1821
little hand1829
hair-spring1830
lunette1832
all-or-nothing1843
locking1851
slag1857
staff1860
case spring1866
stem1866
balance-cock1874
watch-dial1875
balance-spring1881
balance-staff1881
Breguet spring1881
overcoil1881
surprise-piece1881
brass edge1884
button turn1884
fourth wheel1884
fusee-sink1884
pair-case1884
silver bar1884
silver piece1884
slang1884
top plate1884
karrusel1893
watch-face1893
watch bracelet1896
bar-movement1903
jewel pivot1907
jewel bearing1954
1765 T. Mudge Thoughts on Means improving Watches (1772) 23 Making the cylinder of harder materials..would be an advantage.
1773 T. Hatton Introd. Clock & Watch Work 197 The tooth [of the balance wheel] ought to act at right angles to a line which would touch the cylinder.
1883 E. Beckett Rudim. Treat. Clocks (ed. 7) 320 In the best watches the cylinder is made of a ruby.
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1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. iii. iii. 201 With Concaue and Cylinder glasses we may reflect any shape of men.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. B iv How to measure a Cylinder Vessel.
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a.
cylinder block n. (see 6)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > other parts
thermo-siphon1834
crank-case1878
manifolda1884
hot tube1889
sump1894
hit-and-miss governor1897
engine pit1903
retard1903
head1904
gasket1915
gravity tank1917
cylinder block1923
transfer case1923
swirl chamber1934
manifolding1938
ignition switch1952
catalytic converter1955
small block1963
cat1988
1923 H. R. Ricardo Internal-combustion Engine II. vi. 142 When the induction system is cast in the cylinder block the whole of its internal surface is rough.
cylinder card n. (see 5)
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1812 Deb. Congress 12 June (1853) 2188 In the year 1762 cylinder cards were first made use of by Mr. Peel.
cylinder gun n. (see 5)
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1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 141 An old or true cylinder gun will not..put three pellets into a pigeon thirty yards distant.
cylinder head n. (see 6)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > combustion chamber > part of
cylinder head1884
hot spot1917
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxii. 280 We blowed out a cylinder-head.
1895 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales (1923) 205 Cylinder-head blown off.
cylinder machine n. (see 4a)
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1860 W. Blackwood Let. 28 Mar. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 284 We have got the new cylinder machine working perfectly.
1867 Printers' Register June 138 Davis and Primrose, Manufacturers of..Single Cylinder Machines.
1907 Cambr. Mod. Hist. Prosp. 90 The cylinder machine has immensely increased the speed at which it is possible to print well.
1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper iv. 44 A popular name for the M.G. [machine glazed] or cylinder machine is the ‘Yankee’.
cylinder-plug n. (see 4a)
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 76 Cylinder Plugs... Plugs fitting into the top and bottom of the cylinder..at the extremities of which the pivots are formed.
cylinder saw n. (see 4a)
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1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 181 They are..fed to a cylinder saw, which cuts them into staves of the proper thickness and curve.
cylinder seal n. (see 4a)
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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > engraved stamp used for
inseila1000
seala1300
lead1340
signet1392
sinetc1440
jark1567
cashet1609
sigila1610
ring1637
cacheta1639
signet ring1726
cylinder seal1887
1887 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 80 The earliest printing-press was a seal, and the cylinder-seal may be said to have been an archaic rotary press.
1892 W. M. F. Petrie Ten Years' Digging in Egypt (1893) 198 Cylinder seals.
1922 Guide Babylonian & Assyrian Antiq. (Brit. Mus.) (ed. 3) 82 Cylinder seal..of Syrian type.
1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Priests & Kings 64 Some of the Egyptians used mace-heads and cylinder-seals almost exactly similar to those found somewhat later in Mesopotamia.
cylinder stove n.
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1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum xviii. 162 The proximity of wet boots and garments to the big cylinder stove.
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cylinder-like adj.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 319/1 Provided it be of length Cilender like.
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cylinder-axis n. = axis-cylinder (see axis n.1).
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1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cylinder-axis, Purkinje's term for the central or axial part of a nerve tubule.
cylinder-bore n. (a) n. a gun of which the bore is cylindrical or of uniform diameter; so cylinder-bored; (b) v. to make with a cylindrical bore.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of bore
rifled1619
screwed1657
full bore1666
wreathed1681
smooth-bore1799
small-bore1833
unrifled1851
poly-grooved1858
smooth-bored1859
polygroove1863
cylinder-bored1881
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 189 Cylinder-bored guns.
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cylinder-cock n. a cock at the end of the cylinder in a steam-engine to allow water of condensation to escape.
cylinder-cover n. the steam-tight lid at the end of a steam-cylinder.
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1827 J. Farey Treat. Steam Engine 372 The cylinder-cover must be lifted up whenever the piston is packed.
1891 W. J. Millar Rankine's Man. Steam Engine (ed. 13) 481 The cylinder cover has in it a stuffing box for the passage of the piston rod.
cylinder-desk n. a writing-desk having a curved revolving top which can be pushed back or drawn forward and locked.
cylinder-engine n. (see quot.).
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cylinder-engine, a paper-machine in which the pulp is taken up on a cylinder and delivered in a continuous sheet to the dryers.
cylinder-epithelium n. epithelium consisting of cylindrical cells.
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1886 H. Spencer in 19th Cent. May 763 A mucous membrane of the kind covered by cylinder-epithelium.
cylinder-escapement n. a form of watch escapement (also called horizontal escapement), invented by Tompion in 1695, or later by Graham.
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1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. II. 695 Cylinder 'scapement.
1893 Horological Jrnl. July 165 Tompion undoubtedly patented the cylinder escapement in 1695.
cylinder-gauge n. (a) a tool for giving the size of the opening in the cylinder of an escapement; (b) a gauge for testing the diameter of projectiles for rifled ordnance; also a carefully turned iron cylinder used to gauge the accuracy of the finished bore of a gun (Farrow, Mil. Dict. New York 1885); (c) a steam-gauge attached to the cylinder of an engine.
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 76 Cylinder Gauge, a steel plate having two tapered slits.
1892 Treat. Ammunition (War Dept.) 314 (note) The cylinder gauge has the advantage of detecting an excentric stud, which could not be found by ring gauges.
cylinder-glass n. sheet glass, made by blowing glass into the form of a cylinder which is then cut open and flattened.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > sheet glass
spread glass1777
sheet glass1805
cylinder-glass1851
1851 Rep. Juries of Exhibition 526 It was not until the year 1832 that the manufacture of cylinder or sheet glass was introduced into this country.
cylinder lock n. a lock (esp. a door-lock) in which a pin tumbler mechanism is contained inside a cylinder barrel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > other types of lock
inlock1488
treble lock1680
French lock1787
ringlock1789
thumb-lock1801
bar-lock1828
permutation lock1835
check-lock1850
pin lock1851
time lock1858
garret-lock1860
dead lock1866
seal-lock1871
dead-latch1874
Bramah-lock1875
cylinder lock1878
police lock1910
ziplock1956
solenoid lock1976
D-lock1990
1878 Specifications of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 19 Feb. 637/1 A new Improvement In Cylinder-Locks.
1894 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 14 Aug. 893/1 Cylinder lock. Johannes T. Pedersen, New York, N.Y...a locking plate having a sliding movement on the forked lever, a rotatable cylinder, [etc.].
1926 G. H. Chubb Locks & Lockmaking iv. 54 Although many firms in this and other countries now make cylinder locks with pin tumbler mechanism, the credit for producing a modern lock in that form belongs to the Yales.
1982 Inventions that changed World 154 This cylinder lock was cheap to produce.
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cylinder-paper-machine n. a paper-making machine in which the pulp is taken up by a wirecloth-covered cylinder, instead of the flat wire-cloth used in the Fourdrinier machine.
cylinder-press n. U.S. a machine in which a cylinder is used either for carrying the type or giving the impression.
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1859 Printer (N.Y.) II. 30 Messrs. Hoe have long been pre-eminent in the manufacture of cylinder presses.
cylinder-printing-machine n.
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1851 Rep. Juries of Exhibition 198 Cylinder printing machines are exhibited by Messrs. Napier.
cylinder-watch n. a watch with a cylinder or horizontal escapement.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch
German watch1611
larum watch1619
clock-watch1625
minute watch1660
pendulum watch1664
watch1666
alarm watch1669
finger watch1679
string-watch1686
scout1688
balance-watch1690
hour-watch1697
warming-pan1699
minute pendulum watch1705
jewel watch1711
suit1718
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pendulum spring1728
second-watch1755
Geneva watch1756
cylinder-watch1765
watch-paper1777
ring watch1788
verge watch1792
watch lamp1823
hack1827
bull's-eye1833
vertical watch1838
quarter-repeater1840
turnip1840
hunting-watch1843
minute repeater1843
hunter1851
job watch1851
Geneva1852
watch-lining1856
touch watch1860
musical watch1864
lever1865
neep1866
verge1871
independent seconds watch1875
stem-winder1875
demi-hunter1884
fob-watch1884
three-quarter plate1884
wrist-watch1897
turnip-watch1898
sedan-chair watch1904
Rolex1922
Tank watch1923
strap watch1926
chatelaine watch1936
sedan clock1950
quartz watch1969
pulsar1970
1765 T. Mudge Thoughts on Means improving Watches (1772) 22 The cylinder watch..is a fine invention.
1885 D. Glasgow Watch & Clock Making 133 In the best Geneva-made cylinder watches the escape wheel is made small.
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cylinderv.
transitive. To act upon with a cylinder, to press under a cylinder.
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1887 Brit. Merc. Gaz. 15 June 34/1 Occasionally they are cylindered to give them a polish.
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cylinder
attributive and in other combinations, as displacement apparatus (see sense 3c), cylinder, lubricator.
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1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Materia Medica (1880) 277 Place the bark in a displacement apparatus and percolate with the diluted hydrochloric acid.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Displacement Cylinder, an auxiliary cylinder belonging to some gas engines, by which the constituents of the charge are forced into the working or power cylinder. Displacement Lubricator, a lubricator which acts by the difference in the sp. gr. of oil and of water. An impermeator is one form of displacement lubricator.
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