How do you pronounce hydraulic?

The recorded pronunciation is /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/.

hydraulic

/haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.72 in modern English

Syllables: hy-draulic
IPA: /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/

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Meaning

adj

Pertaining to water.

adj

Related to, or operated by, hydraulics.

adj

Able to set underwater.

verb

To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Tho' there are but seventeen feet water^([sic]) in the channel, I have seen vessels of five hundred ton enter into it. I know not why this entrance is left so neglected, as we are not in want of able engineers in France, in the hydraulic branch, a part of the mathematics to which I have most applyed^([sic]) myself."
"A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions."
"hydraulic gypsum; hydraulic cements"

Etymology

From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: *wed-, hydraulique, hydraulicus, ὑδραυλικός

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/
British English: /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

hydraulick (alternative, obsolete) hydraulics (present, singular) hydraulicking (participle, present) hydraulicked (participle, past) hydraulicked (past)

Derived Forms

aeraulic airdraulic electrohydraulic fueldraulic glaciohydraulic handraulic hydraucone hydrauger hydraulically hydraulician hydraulicity hygraulic

Phrases

diesel-hydraulic hydraulic belt hydraulic cement hydraulic conductivity hydraulic engineering hydraulic fluid hydraulic fracturing hydraulic horsepower

Rhymes With

apostolic systolic wallick pawlik gawlik paulick alcoholic symbolic metabolic hyperbolic parabolic anabolic