Pneumatic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pneumatic \Pneu*mat"ic\, n.
     A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with
     pneumatic tires. [archaic]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Pneumatic

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Pneumatic \Pneu*mat"ic\, Pneumatical \Pneu*mat"ic*al\, a. [L.
     pneumaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, wind, air, ? to blow, breathe;
     cf. OHG. fnehan: cf. F. pneumatique. Cf. {Pneumonia}.]
     1. Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties
        of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.
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              The pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the
              native spirit of the body.            --Bacon.
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     2. Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their
        properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic
        experiments. "Pneumatical discoveries." --Stewart.
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     3. Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a
        pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
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     4. (Biol.) Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with
        air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
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     5. Adapted for containing compressed air; inflated with air;
        as, a pneumatic cushion; a pneumatic tire, a tire formed
        of an annular tube of flexible fabric, as India rubber,
        suitable for being inflated with air.
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     {Pneumatic action}, or {Pneumatic lever} (Mus.), a
        contrivance for overcoming the resistance of the keys and
        other movable parts in an organ, by causing compressed air
        from the wind chest to move them.
  
     {Pneumatic dispatch}, a system of tubes, leading to various
        points, through which letters, packages, etc., are sent,
        by the flow and pressure of air.
  
     {Pneumatic elevator}, a hoisting machine worked by compressed
        air.
  
     {Pneumatic pile}, a tubular pile or cylinder of large
        diameter sunk by atmospheric pressure.
  
     {Pneumatic pump}, an air-exhausting or forcing pump.
  
     {Pneumatic railway}. See {Atmospheric railway}, under
        {Atmospheric}.
  
     {Pneumatic syringe}, a stout tube closed at one end, and
        provided with a piston, for showing that the heat produced
        by compressing a gas will ignite substances.
  
     {Pneumatic trough}, a trough, generally made of wood or sheet
        metal, having a perforated shelf, and used, when filled
        with water or mercury, for collecting gases in chemical
        operations.
  
     {Pneumatic tube}. See {Pneumatic dispatch}, above.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pneumatic
       adj : of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas);
             "pneumatic drill"; "pneumatic tire"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "pneumatic":
     Junoesque, aerial, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerographic, aerologic,
     aeromechanical, aerophysical, aerostatic, aerotechnical, aery,
     agreeable, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, amply endowed,
     atmospheric, bagging, baggy, ballooning, becoming, bellying,
     billowing, billowy, bloated, bonny, bosomy, braw, breezy, built,
     built for comfort, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy,
     bunched, bunchy, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, comely,
     curvaceous, curvy, distended, ethereal, exposed, fair, fuming,
     fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, goddess-like,
     good-looking, goodly, hillocky, hummocky, light, likely,
     lovely to behold, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, moutonnee,
     open-air, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, personable, pleasing,
     pneumatological, potbellied, pouching, presentable, reeking, reeky,
     roomy, rounded, shapely, sightly, slender, smoking, smoky, stacked,
     statuesque, steaming, steamy, swelling, tropospheric, vaporing,
     vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, verrucated, verrucose,
     warty, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made,
     well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked