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Cornet valve
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piston
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A piston (also known as a dart , prod , or tentacle ) is a complex contractile organelle found in some dinoflagellates , namely the Erythropsidinium and Greuetodinium genera of the family Warnowiaceae . This group is also well known for possessing other ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1704, from French piston , from Middle French piston "large pestle," from Old Italian pistone "a piston," variant of pestone "a pestle," from pestare "to pound," from Late Latin pistare , frequentative of Latin pinsere (past participle pistus ) "to pound" ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES piston ring COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN engine ▪ These resemble crop-sprayers, but with piston engines - hence the avgas there. ▪ A piston engine reacts immediately to power, just like a car. ▪ All light aircraft ...
Usage examples of piston.
And then the pistoliers shoot them in the head with a big gun that has a kind of a piston, goes right into the brain and comes out again, ready for the next one.
The hydraulic piston dropped, carrying the bottom bowl with it, shaking the concrete pad of the floor.
Attached at about a third of the way back was the rod which led directly down into the pump, to pull the piston there up and down.
The hinge and the piston linkage were each fastened with a nut and bolt, and appeared to have been tightened by Atlas.
While he watched, the mighty piston leaped at him, then stopped with a powerful uuuuush less than four inches from his face.
Like an airborne mote within the eerily lit bowels of that colossal imaginary mechanism, he drifted past massive walls and interconnected columns of whirling drive shafts, rattling drive chains, myriad thrusting piston rods joined by sliding blocks to connecting rods that were in turn joined by crank wrists to well-greased cranks that turned flywheels of all dimensions.
The push rod was screwed into a miniature piston head which, in turn, actuated a trio of switches.
With movements so infinitesimal that a hundred might equal the thickness of a human hair, the piston head had turned, slowly but inexorably unscrewing itself from the push rod thread.
Just as a final grain of sand will tip a scale, so, at this moment, the slightest further twisting of the piston would isolate the motor switch entirely.
Furthermore, for maximum efficiency operating speeds and temperatures whole orders of magnitude greater than the piston engine were needed.
Once the bullet had left the muzzle, the pressure in the cylinder dropped and the piston traveled backwards, forcing the remaining gas into the barrel.
Her teeth clamped lightly down on the moving piston, igniting the electricity of pain-pleasure along the rigid length.
The savage plunging ripped between her thighs like a pounding piston of pleasure.
Craning her neck, she watched as the fiery piston of pleasure drove in and out of the tight-pressed tunnel.
Again her eyes opened and her neck strained up to allow her mouth to possess the ramrodding piston of lust.