cylinder head



cylinder head

The metal casing that fits onto a cylinder block in an internal-combustion engine. A: "Did dad say what's wrong with the car?" B: "I don't know, something about needing to fix the cylinder head, whatever that means!"
See also: cylinder, head

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Antheia-Greek Mythology
Tilo-German
'Ira'-Biblical Hebrew
Marija-Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
KristofferKREES-tof-fer (Finnish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Gjurd-Norwegian (Rare)