boule vs cylinder

boule

noun
  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

cylinder

noun
  • Any object in the form of a circular cylinder. 

  • A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve. 

  • The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges. 

  • A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas; a gas cylinder. 

  • 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. 

  • The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump. 

  • A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder. 

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

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