different between cylinder vs tympan

English

Etymology

From Middle French chilindre, cylindre, from Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kúlindros), from ??????? (kulínd?) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive). Doublet of calender.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l?nd?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?nd?/, [?s?l??nd?]

Noun

cylinder (plural cylinders)

1. (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.

   When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied.

2. (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
3. Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
   • 1898 — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds Ch.4

     A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.

4. A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
6. (automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
8. A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
9. An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
10. The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
11. (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

Derived terms

• cylinder head
• cylindrical
• fire on all cylinders
• two-cylinder

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (shirind?)
• ? Korean: ??? (sillindeo)

Translations

Verb

cylinder (third-person singular simple present cylinders, present participle cylindering, simple past and past participle cylindered)

1. (transitive) To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.

See also

• cylinder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kúlindros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sylen?r/, [sy?len??] or IPA^(key): /sylend?r/, [sy?len?d??]

Noun

cylinder c (singular definite cylinderen, plural indefinite cylindere or cylindre)

1. cylinder

Inflection

Further reading

• cylinder on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Cylinder (geometri) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Cylinder (fluidmekanik) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Cylinder (motordel) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Polish

Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kúlindros), from ??????? (kulínd?) "I roll or wallow" (intransitive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s??l?in.d?r/

Noun

cylinder m inan (diminutive cylinderek)

1. top hat, high hat, cylinder hat, topper
2. cylinder (any object in the form of a circular cylinder)
3. (automotive) cylinder (space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) cylindrowa?
• (adjectives) cylindrowy, cylindryczny
• (adverb) cylindrycznie

Related terms

• (noun) cylindroid

Further reading

• cylinder in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cylinder in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin cylindrus, not necessarily directly.

Noun

cylinder c

1. (geometry) a cylinder
2. (mechanics) a cylinder (part of an engine)
3. a top hat

Declension

Related terms

• cylinderformig
• cylinderhatt
• cylinderlås
• cylinderpress
• cylindervolym
• cylindrisk

References

• cylinder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tympanum.

Noun

tympan (plural tympans)

1. (printing) A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
2. (music) The stretched membrane of a drum.
3. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
4. (architecture) A tympanum.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tympanum. Doublet of timbre, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.p??/

Noun

tympan m (plural tympans)

1. (anatomy) eardrum
2. (anatomy) middle ear
3. (architecture) tympanum
4. (historical) treadwheel, treadmill
5. (by extension) hydraulic wheel
6. (dated or literary, music) various percussion instruments, such as gongs, tympans, tambourines, etc.
7. (printing) tympan

Derived terms

• tympanique

Further reading

• “tympan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).