piston

From French piston.

• enPR: pĭs'tən, IPA^(key): /ˈpɪstən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstən

piston (plural pistons)

1. A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
2. (music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch

• piston rod
• piston ring
• pistoning

piston (third-person singular simple present pistons, present participle pistoning, simple past and past participle pistoned)

1. (intransitive) To move up and down or in and out like a piston.

• Pintos, Points, Tipson, instop, opts in, pinots, pintos, pitons, points, posnit, postin

piston

1. genitive singular of pisto

16th century in the sense of "pestle", borrowed from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pistāre, from the root pīnsō (“I crush”).

• IPA^(key): /pis.tɔ̃/

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piston m (plural pistons)

1. piston
2. (colloquial) contact, connection

   Pour trouver un boulot par ici, il faut avoir des pistons.

   To get a job round here you need connections.

• pistonner

• → Catalan: pistó
• → English: piston

• “piston”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pitons, points

From Dutch piston, from French piston, from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pistāre, from the root pīnsō (“I crush”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪstɔn]
• Hyphenation: pis‧ton

piston (first-person possessive pistonku, second-person possessive pistonmu, third-person possessive pistonnya)

1. (engineering) piston.

• “piston” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French piston.

piston n (plural pistoane)

1. piston
2. (music) piston