piston

See also: Piston and pistón

English

A simplified animation of a piston reciprocating.

Etymology

From French piston.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĭs'tən, IPA^(key): /ˈpɪstən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪstən

Noun

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
3. (firearms) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Derived terms

• piston rod
• piston ring
• pistoning

Translations

solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder

• Armenian: մխոց (hy) (mxocʻ)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 活塞 (wut⁶ sak¹)

  Mandarin: 活塞 (zh) (huósāi)

• Czech: píst m
• Dutch: zuiger (nl) m
• Esperanto: piŝto
• Finnish: mäntä (fi)
• French: piston (fr) m
• Galician: pistón m, émbolo m, sucho m
• Georgian: დგუში (dguši)
• German: Kolben (de) m
• Greek: πιστόνι (el) n (pistóni)
• Hebrew: בוכנה \ בֻּכְנָה (he) f (bukhná)
• Hungarian: dugattyú (hu)
• Icelandic: stimpill (is) m, bulla (is) f
• Italian: pistone (it) m
• Japanese: ピストン (pisuton), 活塞 (ja) (かっそく, kassoku), 喞子 (ja) (しょくし, shokushi)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 피스톤 (piseuton)
• Latvian: virzulis m
• Macedonian: клип m (klip)
• Malay: piston
• Maori: kōkeke
• Mongolian: бүлүүр (mn) (bülüür)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stempel n

  Nynorsk: stempel n

• Polish: tłok (pl) m
• Portuguese: pistão (pt) m
• Romanian: piston (ro) n
• Russian: по́ршень (ru) m (póršenʹ), плу́нжер (ru) m (plúnžer)
• Serbo-Croatian: klip (sh) m, stap (sh) m
• Spanish: pistón m, émbolo (es) m
• Tagalog: tublik
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

valve of brass instruments

• Finnish: venttiili (fi), työntöventtiili
• French: piston (fr) m
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• German: Pumpventil n, Perinetventil n
• Russian: писто́н (ru) m (pistón), кла́пан (ru) m (klápan)

in firearms

• Arabic: مِدَكّ m (midakk)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: mäntä (fi)
• German: Piston m or n, Zündhütchenträger m
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• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

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

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Finnish

Noun

piston

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of pisto

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pis.tɔ̃/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• pistonner

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• pitons, points

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piston.

Noun

piston n (plural pistoane)

1. piston
2. (music) piston

Declension

Declension of piston

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) piston	pistonul	(niște) pistoane	pistoanele
genitive/dative	(unui) piston	pistonului	(unor) pistoane	pistoanelor
vocative	pistonule		pistoanelor