Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By means of pneumatic force or of some pneumatic contrivance: as, pneumatically sunk caissons.
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- adverb In a
pneumatic manner. - adverb Using
pneumatics .
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- adverb in a pneumatic manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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She has a skin-tight t-shirt over such enormous, pneumatically-enhanced boobs that I can't read the words that run down her shirt.
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These computer-generated forms were physically achieved by employing shotcrete, a form of concrete that is pneumatically projected into shaped reinforcement -- a method commonly used to make swimming pools.
Guy Horton: Impossible Architecture: A Review of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Guy Horton 2010
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These computer-generated forms were physically achieved by employing shotcrete, a form of concrete that is pneumatically projected into shaped reinforcement -- a method commonly used to make swimming pools.
Guy Horton: Impossible Architecture: A Review of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Guy Horton 2010
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She has a skin-tight t-shirt over such enormous, pneumatically-enhanced boobs that I can't read the words that run down her shirt.
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These computer-generated forms were physically achieved by employing shotcrete, a form of concrete that is pneumatically projected into shaped reinforcement--a method commonly used to make swimming pools.
Guy Horton: Impossible Architecture: A Review of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Guy Horton 2010
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These computer-generated forms were physically achieved by employing shotcrete, a form of concrete that is pneumatically projected into shaped reinforcement -- a method commonly used to make swimming pools.
Guy Horton: Impossible Architecture: A Review of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Guy Horton 2010
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And that characteristic allows for a rubber boot to be pneumatically expanded, which will crack the ice.
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The tour guide breathes into the microphone suggestively, and this huge intercontinental tour bus pneumatically, and empathetically, jerks itself into the traffic.
The "Sex and the City" Tour Gill, A. A. 2009
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Poelzig doesn't just wake up when his doorbell rings: he rises almost pneumatically, his body segmented like a machine, silhouetted behind a thin curtain so that his iconically familiar shadowed profile reveals his presence before he's actually seen in full.
The Black Cat Ed Howard 2009
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He coughs pneumatically into his fist, rocks in his chair.
Culture Club 2008
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"Why all these credit card charges from the Karpet Klub?", Tom wondered pneumatically.
October 30, 2007