piston

Borrowed from French piston.

• enPR: pĭs'tən, IPA^(key): /ˈpɪstən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstən

piston (plural pistons)

1. (mechanics) 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 (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.
   • 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer‎^[1], number 151, page 32:

     The Latino warrior fucked like a man possessed. His lean hips powered the pistoning rod in short, vicious jabs, so rapidly that the shit-streaked cock was a blur as it pounded Captain Randall's butthole, churning the screaming soldier's ass-juices, rectal blood, and smashed turds into a slimy froth.

• 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 (“to crush”).

• IPA^(key): /pis.tɔ̃/

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piston m (plural pistons)

1. (mechanics) 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
• → Greek: πιστόνι (pistóni)
• → Romanian: 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 (“to crush”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpiston/ [ˈpis.t̪ɔn]
• Rhymes: -iston
• Syllabification: pis‧ton

piston (plural piston-piston)

1. (mechanical engineering, automotive) piston

   Synonyms: omboh (Malay), seher, torak

• “piston”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from French piston.

piston n (plural pistoane)

1. piston
2. (music) piston

From English piston.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsdɔn/, [ˈpɪstɔn]
• Rhymes: -ɪsdɔn

piston m (plural pistonau or pistynau)

1. (mechanics) piston

   Synonyms: pillffon, ceuffon

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “piston”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies