Word Meanings - PISTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.

• Otherwhere
  In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.
• Receivedness
  The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.
• Shorten
  To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
• Short-wited
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• Steamboating
  The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
• Fittable
  Suitable; fit.
• Forthputing
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• SHORTCIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• Movably
  In a movable manner or condition.
• Otherwhile
  Alt. of Otherwhiles
• Receiver
  One who takes or receives in any manner.
• Shortener
  One who, or that which, shortens.
• Steam engine
  An engine moved by steam.
• Fittedness
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Forthright
  Straight forward; in a straight direction.
• SHORTDATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.

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