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Ball
noun · 78% connection
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Bandbox
noun · 78% connection
A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Bell
noun · 78% connection
That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Bird's-foot
noun · 78% connection
A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Bocal
noun · 78% connection
A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Bore
noun · 78% connection
The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Bulb
noun · 78% connection
An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, cur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Caddis
noun · 78% connection
The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Calibre
noun · 78% connection
The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Can
noun · 78% connection
A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a mil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Candle
noun · 78% connection
A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish ligh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Cannon
noun · 78% connection
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Cantharis
noun · 78% connection
A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Capsule
noun · 78% connection
A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Cat-tail
noun · 78% connection
A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Catalpa
noun · 78% connection
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.
Centriole
noun · 78% connection
one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cylindrical.