cylinder vs container

container vs cylinder

cylinder and container both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cylinder	Yes	No	No	No
container	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, container is a hypernym of cylinder; that is, container is a word with a broader meaning than cylinder:

cylinder: a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air
container: any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

cylinder (noun)	container (noun)
a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air	any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
a chamber within which piston moves
a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line
a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases)

Difference between cylinder and container

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