'Pneumatic' definitions:
Definition of 'pneumatic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas); "pneumatic drill"; "pneumatic tire"
Definition of 'Pneumatic'
From: GCIDE
- Pneumatic \Pneu*mat"ic\, n. A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with pneumatic tires. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Pneumatic
Definition of 'Pneumatic'
From: GCIDE
- Pneumatic \Pneu*mat"ic\, Pneumatical \Pneu*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. pneumaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, wind, air, ? to blow, breathe; cf. OHG. fnehan: cf. F. pneumatique. Cf. Pneumonia.]
- 1. Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid. [1913 Webster]
- The pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the native spirit of the body. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments. "Pneumatical discoveries." --Stewart. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Biol.) Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Adapted for containing compressed air; inflated with air; as, a pneumatic cushion; a pneumatic tire, a tire formed of an annular tube of flexible fabric, as India rubber, suitable for being inflated with air. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Pneumatic action, or Pneumatic lever (Mus.), a contrivance for overcoming the resistance of the keys and other movable parts in an organ, by causing compressed air from the wind chest to move them.
- Pneumatic dispatch, a system of tubes, leading to various points, through which letters, packages, etc., are sent, by the flow and pressure of air.
- Pneumatic elevator, a hoisting machine worked by compressed air.
- Pneumatic pile, a tubular pile or cylinder of large diameter sunk by atmospheric pressure.
- Pneumatic pump, an air-exhausting or forcing pump.
- Pneumatic railway. See Atmospheric railway, under Atmospheric.
- Pneumatic syringe, a stout tube closed at one end, and provided with a piston, for showing that the heat produced by compressing a gas will ignite substances.
- Pneumatic trough, a trough, generally made of wood or sheet metal, having a perforated shelf, and used, when filled with water or mercury, for collecting gases in chemical operations.
- Pneumatic tube. See Pneumatic dispatch, above. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pneumatic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aerial,
- aeriform,
- aerodynamic,
- aerographic,
- aerologic,
- aeromechanical,
- aerophysical,
- aerostatic,
- aerotechnical,
- aery,
- agreeable,
- airish,
- airlike,
- airy,
- alfresco,
- amply endowed,
- atmospheric,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- ballooning,
- becoming,
- bellying,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- bloated,
- bonny,
- bosomy,
- braw,
- breezy,
- built,
- built for comfort,
- bulbose,
- bulbous,
- bulging,
- bumped,
- bumpy,
- bunched,
- bunchy,
- buxom,
- callipygian,
- callipygous,
- comely,
- curvaceous,
- curvy,
- distended,
- ethereal,
- exposed,
- fair,
- fuming,
- fumy,
- gaseous,
- gasified,
- gasiform,
- gaslike,
- gassy,
- goddess-like,
- good-looking,
- goodly,
- hillocky,
- hummocky,
- Junoesque,
- light,
- likely,
- lovely to behold,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- moutonnee,
- open-air,
- oxyacetylene,
- oxygenous,
- ozonic,
- personable,
- pleasing,
- pneumatological,
- potbellied,
- pouching,
- presentable,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- roomy,
- rounded,
- shapely,
- sightly,
- slender,
- smoking,
- smoky,
- stacked,
- statuesque,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- swelling,
- tropospheric,
- vaporing,
- vaporish,
- vaporlike,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- verrucated,
- verrucose,
- warty,
- well-built,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-shaped,
- well-stacked