1 a solid or hollow figure with round ends and long straight sides
2 an object shaped like a cylinder, especially one used as a container:
a gas / oxygen cylinder
3 the hollow tube in an engine, shaped like a cylinder, inside which the PISTON moves:
a six-cylinder engine
IDIOMS
working / firing on all cylinders (informal) using all your energy to do sth; working as well as possible
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for cylinder is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cylinder a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cylinder is tagged as noun.
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