different between piston vs roof

English

Etymology

From French piston.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?s't?n, IPA^(key): /?p?st?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?n

Noun

piston (plural pistons)

1. A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
2. (music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
3. (firearms) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Derived terms

• piston rod
• piston ring
• pistoning

Translations

Verb

piston (third-person singular simple present pistons, present participle pistoning, simple past and past participle pistoned)

1. (intransitive) To move up and down or in and out like a piston.

Anagrams

• Pintos, Points, Tipson, instop, opts in, pinots, pintos, pitons, points, posnit, postin

Finnish

Noun

piston

1. Genitive singular form of pisto.

French

Etymology

16th century in the sense of "pestle", borrowed from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pist?re, from the root p?ns? (“I crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pis.t??/

Noun

piston m (plural pistons)

1. piston
2. (colloquial) contact, connection

Derived terms

• pistonner

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• pitons, points

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch piston, from French piston, from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pist?re, from the root p?ns? (“I crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?st?n]
• Hyphenation: pis?ton

Noun

piston (first-person possessive pistonku, second-person possessive pistonmu, third-person possessive pistonnya)

1. (engineering) piston.

Further reading

• “piston” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piston.

Noun

piston n (plural pistoane)

1. piston
2. (music) piston

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?f/, /??f/
• ,
• Rhymes: -?f, -u?f

Etymology 1

From Middle English rof, from Old English hr?f (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?f? (“roof”).

Noun

roof (plural roofs or rooves)

1. (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
2. The top external level of a building.
3. The upper part of a cavity.
4. (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
5. (climbing) An overhanging rock wall

Synonyms

• (cover at top of building): rooftop, tect (obsolete, rare), thatch
• (in a cavity): ceiling

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rofen, roven (“to roof”), from the noun (see above).

Verb

roof (third-person singular simple present roofs, present participle roofing, simple past and past participle roofed)

1. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.
2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
3. (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.
4. (transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.

Derived terms

• roofer
• unroof

Translations

Anagrams

• Foor

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch roof, from Old Dutch *r?f, *rouf, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz. More at robe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?f/
• Hyphenation: roof
• Rhymes: -o?f

Noun

roof m (plural roven, diminutive roofje n)

1. robbery, robbing, banditry, rapine

Derived terms

• bankroof
• broodroof
• lijkroof
• roofdier
• roofridder

Related terms

• rover

Verb

roof

1. first-person singular present indicative of roven
2. imperative of roven

Middle English

Noun

roof

1. Alternative form of rof