1. cylinder - Noun
2. cylinder - Verb
A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
Any hollow body of cylindrical form
The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
The barrel of an air or other pump.
The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. Archimedes
Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle - a particular bottle - out of a cylinder. Juan Gris
I remember I felt an extraordinary persuasion that I was being played with, that presently, when I was upon the very verge of safety, this mysterious death--as swift as the passage of light--would leap after me from the pit about the cylinder and strike me down. H. G. Wells
It is not given to a cylinder to move everywhere by its own motion. Marcus Aurelius
It now appeared that the cylinder of the model, being of brass, would conduct heat much better than the cast-iron cylinders of larger engines. James Watt
The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder. Lawrence Hargrave