noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
piston ring
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
engine
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These resemble crop-sprayers, but with piston engines - hence the avgas there.
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A piston engine reacts immediately to power, just like a car.
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All light aircraft maintenance workshops would most certainly have one for synchronizing and timing port and starboard magnetos on piston engines .
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After a piston engine , starting a turbine can seem strange.
ring
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Pardue's aircraft had metal on the oil filter screens as well as part of a piston ring .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as the barrel swung it would push a small piston that, in return, moved the hand lever.
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Controlled by computer and battery-powered hydraulics, they push or pull like pistons to damp movement by the walls.
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He used a cane and tried to walk fast and his hips bobbed like pistons gone awry.
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Here, the float arm closes a horizontal piston , fitted with a washer against the valve seating.
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It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter.
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Some of their multi-cylinder motor cycle engines have pistons little bigger than thimbles.
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The steel piston is fitted with brass piston rings which, says Hytek, makes for longer life.
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This is a wonderful piece of ancient machinery of indeterminate age, and consists of a crank-driven triple piston pump.