Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to air or other gases.
- adjective Of or relating to pneumatics.
- adjective Run by or using compressed air.
- adjective Filled with air, especially compressed air.
- adjective Zoology Having cavities filled with air, as the bones of certain birds.
- adjective Of or relating to the pneuma; spiritual.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In theology, relating to the spirit or pneuma, as distinguished from both soul and body; spiritual. See
soul and spirit. - noun An inflatable rubber tire.
- noun A vehicle, as a bicycle, motor-cycle, or motorcar, lifted with inflatable rubber tires.
- 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.
- 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.
- noun In organ-building, one of the members of a pneumatic action, whether a bellows or a tube. See
pneumatic action , above. - noun Same as
pneumatology , 2, where see quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun archaic A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with pneumatic tires.
- adjective Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to
dense orsolid . - adjective Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics.
- adjective Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air
- adjective (Biol.) Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air
- adjective Adapted for containing compressed air; inflated with air.
- adjective (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.
- adjective a system of tubes, leading to various points, through which letters, packages, etc., are sent, by the flow and pressure of air.
- adjective a hoisting machine worked by compressed air.
- adjective a tubular pile or cylinder of large diameter sunk by atmospheric pressure.
- adjective an air-exhausting or forcing pump.
- adjective See Atmospheric railway, under
Atmospheric . - adjective 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.
- adjective 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.
- adjective See Pneumatic dispatch, above.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
air or othergases - adjective Of or relating to
pneumatics - adjective
Powered by, orfilled withcompressed air - adjective zoology Having
cavities filled with air - adjective
Spiritual ; Of or relating to thepneuma - adjective of a woman
well-rounded ; full-breasted;bouncy (especially during sex) - noun Gnosticism In
gnostic theologian Valentinus 'triadic grouping of man thehighest type; a person focused onspiritual reality (the other two beinghylic andpsychic ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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?
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JTroyer commented on the word pneumatic
"A third nurse, a pneumatic black girl in pale pink..." Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
October 17, 2010
bilby commented on the word pneumatic
And what might a 'pneumatic black girl' be?
April 9, 2016
qms commented on the word pneumatic
Methinks that the allusion is to mammary protrusion.
April 9, 2016