cylinder
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When cylinder helps
Base Score
8
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
8
C D E I L N R Y
Two-Letter Start
CY
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ER
Check this pattern late
- 8 letters
- 8 unique letters
- CY start
- ER ending
- outside standard hive
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- cylinder uses 8 unique letters, so it cannot fit a standard seven-letter hive.
Pronunciation
noun
A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
"When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a right cylinder. In non-mathematical usage, both right and circular are usually implied."
noun
A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
noun
Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
noun
A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
noun
The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
noun
A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
noun
An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
noun
The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
noun
The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
verb
To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.