Synonyms for hydraulic
haɪˈdrɔ lɪk, -ˈdrɒl ɪkhy·draulic

Princeton's WordNet

1. hydraulicadjective

   moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil)

   "hydraulic erosion"; "hydraulic brakes"

2. hydraulicadjective

   of or relating to the study of hydraulics

   "hydraulic engineer"

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1. List of paraphrases for "hydraulic":

   hydraulics, hydro, waterpower, hydropower, hydraulic-transmission, hydrological, water, hydro-electric

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1. Bethzabet Martinez Amador:

   I remember walking into our living room one morning and seeing my dad kneeling in front of an entire car motor, he had a small hydraulic floor crane that he had used to hang the motor. Needless to say, my mom was livid at him for bringing all of his tools into the house.

2. Theodore Parker:

   It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

3. Federico Martinez:

   Cuba needs lots of infrastructure: highway infrastructure, communications infrastructure, hydraulic infrastructure and there will be many opportunities for companies.

4. Bernard Orr:

   The court recognized that both substantive infirmities with the rule itself and procedural inadequacies in (Bureau of Land Management's) rulemaking process compromise the validity of BLM's hydraulic fracturing rule.

5. R. Buckminster Fuller:

   A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....