Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to air or other gases.
- adj. Of or relating to pneumatics.
- adj. Run by or using compressed air: a pneumatic drill.
- adj. Filled with air, especially compressed air: a pneumatic tire.
- adj. Zoology Having cavities filled with air, as the bones of certain birds.
- adj. Of or relating to the pneuma; spiritual.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to air, or gases in general, or their properties; also, employing (compressed) air or other gas as a motive power, as, pneumatic experiments; a pneumatic engine. Pneumatic notes numerous instruments, machines, apparatus, etc., for experimenting on elastic fluids, or for working by means of the compression or exhaustion of air.
- Consisting of or resembling air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous.
- Moved or played by means of air: as, a pneumatic instrument of music.
- In zoology: Filled with air; fitted to receive or contain air; pneumatized, as the air-cells or the bones of birds
- Of or pertaining to the respiratory system of any animal
- A caisson within which compressed air excludes the water, permitting necessary operations to be carried on inside it.
- n. In organ-building, one of the members of a pneumatic action, whether a bellows or a tube. See pneumatic action, above.
- n. Same as pneumatology, 2, where see quotation.
- In theology, relating to the spirit or pneuma, as distinguished from both soul and body; spiritual. See soul and spirit.
- n. An inflatable rubber tire.
- n. A vehicle, as a bicycle, motor-cycle, or motorcar, lifted with inflatable rubber tires.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or related to air or other gases
- adj. Of, or related to pneumatics
- adj. Powered by, or filled with compressed air
- adj. Having cavities filled with air
- adj. Spiritual; Of, or related to the pneuma
- adj. well-rounded; full-breasted; bouncy (especially during sex)
- n. In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with pneumatic tires.
- adj. Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to
dense orsolid . - adj. Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics.
- adj. Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air
- adj. Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air
- adj. Adapted for containing compressed air; inflated with air.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas)
Etymologies
- French pneumatique, from Latin pneumaticus, from Greek pneumatikos, from pneuma, pneumat-, wind; see pneu- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“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.”
“Baltic newts are equipped with a new, normally peaceful, apparatus called the pneumatic drill which is capable of drilling ten metres deep into the best Swedish granite in an hour and can penetrate fifty or sixty metres deep into English chalk in the same time?”
“I wasn't sure about the word pneumatic," Allison Black said.”
“Air tools are also sometimes called pneumatic tools.”
“He collected the gas that this reaction released with an instrument known as a pneumatic trough.”
“According to Pemex, 42% of natural gas is currently consumed in Pemex's own processes, such as pneumatic pumping in oil fields, while 31% goes to private industry, 22% to the power industry and the remainder to small businesses and households.”
“I may have thought of a solution: some kind of pneumatic/hydraulic damper mechanism.”
“While there have been many useful innovations such as pneumatic tires and variable shifting, today's diamond-framed bicycle would remain recognizable to those who participated in bicycling's first Golden Age.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘pneumatic’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 322 more...
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During the month of October, post at least 10 new words to this list. Make sure you cite where you read the word (book/author/pg) and quote the context/sentence where you found it. If someone has a...
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JTroyer "A third nurse, a pneumatic black girl in pale pink..." Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Oct 17, 2010