Pneumatic relates to air, wind, or gases, or is spiritual, or buxom and plump.
Pneumatic se relaciona com ar, vento ou gases, ou é espiritual, ou corpulento.
| Front | pneumatic \noo-MAT-ik, nyoo-\ |
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| Back | adjective 1. Of or relating to air, wind, or gases. 2. Spiritual. 3. Buxom, zaftig. [From Greek pneuma (breath, wind, spirit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pneu- (to breathe), which is also the source of pneumatic, pneumonia, apnea, sneer, sneeze, snort, snore, and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Earliest documented use: 1624.] "This in itself set up a kind of suspicion about pneumatic claims that is, if someone said, 'The Spirit told me.'" |
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