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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cylindrical marble column
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Roll the bread dough into a cylindrical shape.
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The cylindrical glass jars are used for keeping spaghetti in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond was a completely cylindrical room, its beamed ceiling some nine feet high.
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Figure 3.1 shows one two-dimensional surface, a spherical surface; and Fig. 3.2 shows another, a cylindrical surface.
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He secured a single-burner gasoline stove and wrapped a cylindrical iron shell lined with fire-clay around it.
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It meant three or four degrees of taper on most surfaces, cylindrical surfaces slightly conical.
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It was a cylindrical object, covered with fabric that had been roughly wound about it.
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Now imagine the jar no longer cylindrical but conical, like an ice-cream cone, the wider end at the surface.
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The joints that hold the gold plated, cylindrical copper mirror are standard components.
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The leading set can be rounded into a near cylindrical section while the rear set retains hard edges.