how to pronounce cylinder

/ˈsɪləndɚ/

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cylinder is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of cylinder in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… they got this cylinder and they just …”

meanings of cylinder

noun:

The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder.
The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.
An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.

verb:

To calender; to press (paper, etc.) between rollers to make it glossy.

cylinder frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word cylinder occurs in english on average 2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.