plunger

[ US /ˈpɫəndʒɝ/ ]
[ UK /plˈʌnd‍ʒɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
  2. someone who dives (into water)
  3. hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
  4. someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
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How To Use plunger In A Sentence

  • He slowly depressed the plunger and once the syringe was empty, withdrew the needle and stepped back.
  • In the U.S. you can get some pretty great decaf from a number of sources: the aforementioned Terroir Coffee for lighter roasts, and for deeply-roasted plunger pot or espresso-style decaf try the Sumatra or any other decaf from Peets (www. peets.com). Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
  • The one I drank while bathrobed and slippered in my front yard, holding the plunger that had been arbitrarily left standing beside my mail box overnight. Yard Sailing
  • Get rid of the water in the tank by flushing, then bail out the water that is in the bowl using a plunger to force the rest of the water into the bowl, then mop it up with sponges.
  • She took a standard coffee pot and put a perforated cylinder - similar to a sieve - in the middle, into which she put a plunger on a screw thread.
  • Plunger pump in the steering system bring fluid pulsation, there out pressure pulsation in subsequence system.
  • She then dug around in it until she found a medical box and brought out a needle with a plunger, filling it with anesthetic.
  • R 2 is the point of signal transfer between plunger and barrel.
  • He sank the plunger slowly, allowing several drops of liquid to dribble from the needle. DO NO HARM
  • The density of blocks can be determined by means of a pocket penetrometer, which measures the resistance to penetration of a plunger for a fixed depth of penetration, and comparing it to a predetermined threshold of acceptability. Chapter 4
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