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1a solid or hollow figure with round ends and long straight sides
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2an object shaped like a cylinder, especially one used as a container a gas/oxygen cylinder
- 3the hollow tube in an engine, shaped like a cylinder, inside which the piston moves a six-cylinder engine Idioms
using all your energy to do something; working as well as possible
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