Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas);
- Example: "pneumatic drill"- Example: "pneumatic tire"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pneumatic \Pneu*mat"ic\, n.
A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with
pneumatic tires. [archaic]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] Pneumatic
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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The pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the
native spirit of the body. --Bacon.
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2. Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their
properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic
experiments. "Pneumatical discoveries." --Stewart.
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3. Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a
pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
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4. (Biol.) Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with
air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pneumatic
adj 1: of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas);
"pneumatic drill"; "pneumatic tire"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "pneumatic":
Junoesque, 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, 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