Canister vs. Cylinder

a round or cylindrical container used for storing such things as food, chemicals, or rolls of film.

A cylinder (from Greek: κύλινδρος, romanized: kulindros, lit. 'roller', 'tumbler') has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. It is the idealized version of a solid physical tin can having lids on top and bottom.

A box or can of thin metal or plastic used for holding dry foodstuffs or cooking ingredients, such as flour or sugar.

a solid geometrical figure with straight parallel sides and a circular or oval cross section.

A small plastic container used for storing a roll of film.

a piston chamber in a steam or internal combustion engine.

A metal container that holds pressurized gas, as one containing tear gas that explodes on impact or one containing oxygen as part of a breathing apparatus.

a cylinder-shaped container holding liquefied gas under pressure.

A metallic cylinder packed with shot that scatter upon discharge from a cannon, formerly used as an antipersonnel round.

a rotating metal roller in a printing press.

Such cylinders, or the shot used in such cylinders, considered as a group.

a cylinder seal.

The part of a gas mask that contains the filter for removing toxic agents from the air.

The surface generated by a straight line intersecting and moving along a closed plane curve, the directrix, while remaining parallel to a fixed straight line that is not on or parallel to the plane of the directrix.

A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).

The portion of such a surface bounded by two parallel planes and the regions of the planes bounded by the surface.

Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.

A solid bounded by two parallel planes and such a surface, especially such a surface having a circle as its directrix.

A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.

A cylindrical container or object.

A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.

The chamber in which a piston of a reciprocating engine moves.

A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.

The chamber of a pump from which fluid is expelled by a piston.

Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.

The rotating chamber of a revolver that holds the cartridges.

(transitive) To pack into a canister.

Any of several rotating parts in a printing press, especially one that carries the paper.

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

(Archaeology)A cylindrical stone or clay object with an engraved design or inscription.

A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.

(geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve. Category:en:Surfaces

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; - called also canister shot.

(geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.

a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm

Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.

metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.

(automotive) The space in which a piston travels inside a reciprocating engine or pump.

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.

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

(computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

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

A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.

Any hollow body of cylindrical form

The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.

a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air

a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)

a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line

a chamber within which piston moves