HYDRAULIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydraulic mean? 

• HYDRAULIC (adjective)
  The adjective HYDRAULIC has 2 senses:

1. moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil)

2. of or relating to the study of hydraulics

  Familiarity information: HYDRAULIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDRAULIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

hydraulic brakes

Pertainym:

water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the study of hydraulics

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

hydraulic engineer

Pertainym:

hydraulics (study of the mechanics of fluids)

Derivation:

hydraulics (study of the mechanics of fluids)

 Context examples 

A bed that includes a hydraulic system designed for movement or positioning of an object or subject.

(Hydraulic Bed System Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

“Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor).”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Or the culprit is hydraulic failure: the inability of a plant to move water from roots to leaves.

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

An accumulator is an apparatus by means of which energy can be stored, such as a rechargeable battery or a hydraulic accumulator.

(Device Energy Storage System Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

This we have now been doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we erected a hydraulic press.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scientists found that hydraulic failure is universal when trees die, while carbon starvation is a contributing factor roughly half the time.

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which has got out of gear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tree then has hydraulic failure and cannot transport water from the roots to the leaves, causing it to dry out and die.

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘We are now,’ said he, ‘actually within the hydraulic press, and it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were to turn it on.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)