pneumatic

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
It's fitted with what they call a pneumatic cushion--I mean, if anything goes wrong, the lift falls into a funnel shaped well, made of concrete, which forms a cushion of air, and so breaks the fall.

View all »
Definitions (35)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (6)

  1. adjective Of or relating to air or other gases.
  2. adjective Of or relating to pneumatics.
  3. adjective Run by or using compressed air: a pneumatic drill.
3 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (27)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • You can get a pneumatic sewing machine, and a pneumatic washer / dryer (with propane heat). —  BatesLine
  • (APP) has entered into a funded development contract with Memios, LLC, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, to develop a disinfection product that can be incorporated into their pneumatic waste transport system. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • Plasma Products, Inc. (APP) has entered into a funded development contract with Memios, LLC, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, to develop a disinfection product that can be incorporated into their pneumatic waste transport system.
  • He collected the gas that this reaction released with an instrument known as a pneumatic trough. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Studiously avoiding all buoyancy, pneumatic, and materials-science analogies, the presidential campaign of Barack H. Obama certainly appears to be in trouble ... —  Blogrunner
More examples »
 

Tags

pneumatic hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 121 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French pneumatique, from Latin pneumaticus, from Greek pneumatikos, from pneuma, pneumat-, wind; see pneu- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French pneumatique = Spanish pneumático = Portuguese Italian pneumatico, from Latin pneumaticus, from Greek πνευματικός, relating to wind or air, from πνεῡμα, wind, air, breath, spirit, from πνεῑν, blow, breathe.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/njuˈmætɪk/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

aboutus · crab · runner · abruptly · serai

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich