noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas cylinder (= a large container for gas )
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One of the gas cylinders exploded.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hot
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Above: Made-to-measure hot water cylinder fits neatly under sink, hidden by cupboard doors.
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If boiler and hot water cylinder are on the same level, a pump has to be installed into the system.
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The hot water cylinder supplies the domestic hot water to the taps.
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Separate airing cupboard with foam dipped hot water cylinder , immersion heater and timer for boiler.
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The best systems have four pipes plus a balance tank and hot water cylinder .
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Immersion heater spanner Electric immersion heaters fit into a large screwed boss on the top or side of a hot water cylinder .
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Hot water cylinders A hot water cylinder is traditionally put in a cupboard which also serves for airing clothes.
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The other is more useful and is, in fact, the only way of draining the hot water cylinder .
small
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The route was very tight and could only be passed using small cylinders .
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Here, on the floor, is a small flat cylinder with a spirit-level bubble in the center of its top surface.
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But to you, my dear, it will simply be a small cylinder of Balbazian steel, that wonderfully unbreachable metal.
■ NOUN
gas
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Teesside trains were also stopped when firemen discovered a gas cylinder near the fire.
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Hassan has to buy gas cylinders to light the stove and the two small lamps that light his apartment.
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One of the boats sank after gas cylinders inside exploded.The other was completely burned out.Richard Barnet reports.
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Rolled up, admittedly, but those things can be opened and inflated from their gas cylinders in seconds.
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There are candles and a gas cylinder .
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I assemble my Trangia and cook food, avoiding the almost overwhelming temptation to use the gas cylinder .
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Another was attached to a high pressure gas cylinder .
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Since the attack, the gas cylinders have remained out of use.
head
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The question is the charge of gas, exploded in the cylinder head , which is the motive force of every piston-stroke.
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A north-west gale had given us a good shaking up crossing from Peterhead to Wick resulting in a cracked cylinder head .
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It is perfectly possible to replace the hot spots in a Land Rover cylinder head .
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The engine block and alloy cylinder head is shared with the 1.4-litre Energy engine so the bore is identical.
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The R1's free-breathing five-valves-per-cylinder head is also kept for the new bike.
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The only effective remedy is to install hardened valve seats or a replacement cylinder head , both expensive options.
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The cylinder head has been carefully machined to increase air-flow.
index
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Each cylinder index entry gives the address of the cylinder it refers to, and the highest key on the cylinder.
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With large files, there will frequently be a cylinder index added as a first level index.
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Past practice has often been to allocate the cylinder index to a cylinder preceding or following the file area.
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Fig. 7.7 summarizes the rules for placement of the cylinder index if it is to be situated in the main file area.
oxygen
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Cursing herself, she snaked a hand back inside for an oxygen cylinder .
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Soon she was barely able to walk and she had oxygen cylinders fitted in her bedroom.
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There were two explosions involving an oxygen cylinder , injuring both men.
water
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Above: Made-to-measure hot water cylinder fits neatly under sink, hidden by cupboard doors.
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If boiler and hot water cylinder are on the same level, a pump has to be installed into the system.
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The hot water cylinder supplies the domestic hot water to the taps.
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Separate airing cupboard with foam dipped hot water cylinder , immersion heater and timer for boiler.
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The best systems have four pipes plus a balance tank and hot water cylinder .
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Immersion heater spanner Electric immersion heaters fit into a large screwed boss on the top or side of a hot water cylinder .
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Hot water cylinders A hot water cylinder is traditionally put in a cupboard which also serves for airing clothes.
■ VERB
fire
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The latter is a book in which the author is firing on all cylinders .
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This company is firing on all cylinders .
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Your Reticular Activating System is firing on all cylinders , your cortex is turning somersaults.
fit
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The V8 will not fit the 4 cylinder gearbox without an adaptor plate and suitably made engine mounts.
use
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Extending the regulations to more types of gas appliances including premises using gas from cylinders or garden tanks.
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The route was very tight and could only be passed using small cylinders .
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I assemble my Trangia and cook food, avoiding the almost overwhelming temptation to use the gas cylinder .
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Any tappings that aren't being used on the cylinder can be fitted with screwed blanks.
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Upgrading cylinders Direct cylinders can be converted simply to indirect ones using a cylinder conversion kit.
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Watt used a cylinder closed at both ends to keep it as warm as possible.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be firing on all cylinders
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The latter is a book in which the author is firing on all cylinders.
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This company is firing on all cylinders.
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Your Reticular Activating System is firing on all cylinders, your cortex is turning somersaults.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cylinder of oxygen
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Atmospheric pressure then forced the piston down the cylinder in which it was sitting.
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Existing direct cylinders can be upgraded to indirect - see below.
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It met the wood in massive cylinders, thirteen feet across, made of inch-thick wrought-iron plates riveted together.
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Teesside trains were also stopped when firemen discovered a gas cylinder near the fire.
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The cylinders, it was claimed, were designed to be fitted together to form the barrel of a giant 40-metre gun.
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The secret is to divide the number of cylinders by 2 and double the number of heads.