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valve English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word valve once they have reached the level C1 – Advanced. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning valve meaning

What does valve mean?

Definitions in simple English

valve Noun

— A valve is part of a tube that lets liquid or gas go through one way but stops it from going through the other way. There are four valves in the heart that let blood go in one direction but stop it from going in the other direction.

— A valve is part of a tube that someone can open or close to let water or other things go through. Open this valve to let water go through the pipe.

valve

— noun a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it

— noun device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone

— noun control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid

— noun one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods

— noun the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs

Synonyms valve synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as valve?

valve English » English

tube

vacuum tube

tap

flap

throttle

slide

radio tube

plug

faucet

electron tube

wicket

valvule

valvula

valve lead

valva

testa

test

stop

splintery

splinter

spigot

sliver

sliding valve

skin

skim

shutter

shut

shred

shell

screed

rind

restrictor

register

radio valve

porthole

port

petcock

petal

peel

passage

paring

pallium

outlet

mute

mouth

mantle

locker

lobe

liver

lid

Topics valve topics

What do people use valve to talk about?

Universe, creation Sky Air

Blow air

• What tools and machines are used to create or use the wind?
  fan air pump bellows ventilator wind tunnel propeller air pipe airshaft vent chimney exhaust funnel windmill sail valve

Person Body Internal organs

Heart

• What are the parts of the heart?
  heart chamber atrium ventricle valve cardiac

Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Plumber

• What are the parts of a system of pipes?
  pipe water pipe valve faucet joint elbow sections of pipe water main water meter drain sink

Examples valve examples

How do I use valve in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The exit flowrate is proportional to the pressure difference around the exit valve.

Movie subtitles

When you start a dive you release the valve, it inflates it.

The movements to the valve aren't fine enough.

We'll have to find somebody to invent a new valve.

A slide valve with a fine screw on the stem.

This valve engages this gadget, we're off to the races.

There's a slide valve for it.

One of my boys dropped a screwdriver down the safety valve.

Why not dismantle the safety valve and remove the screwdriver?

The gas valve's stuck, I think.

Open the front valve.

That would work if you'd install a new valve spring.

I'm trying to make do with something that doesn't belong on a submarine. and you can't install a new valve spring if you ain't got it.

It's only temporary until we make a valve spring. - We?

Master inverted reducing valve.

They should close the valve.

The valve is doing fine!

Open the valve.

Let's try the oxygen valve.

Will you handle the exhaust valve?

I'm worried about that valve.

Pat, maybe it was something with the valve.

And the little valve works automatically.

When you release the valve it blows up large enough to carry four people.

I gotta act fast, 'cause one of my boys dropped a screwdriver down the safety valve.

Why don't you dismantle the safety valve and remove the screwdriver?

Tie down the safety valve.

You'll blow a valve.

I then turn this valve, and the water drips on his head.

You don't understand. Inside is a compressed air cylinder. When you release the valve it blows up large enough to carry four people.

Because you can also tell them that the Americans, who stole my valve, have succeeded.

Because I'm the one other person with a hydrogen valve.

Quartz, for instance. That's what this valve is made of.

He invented the valve.

It's his valve.

He would've destroyed his valve.

The man who invented the hydrogen valve.

Are you sure the valve's working?

The hydrogen valve.

In spite of your record, there'd have been an open door for the inventor of the hydrogen valve.

Well, with your knowledge and the valve, you should've succeeded.

Charlie, something must be wrong with that valve.

I 'brung' the needle-valve.

News and current affairs

If the exchange rate is irrevocably fixed, that safety valve disappears.

There is no safety valve in currency depreciation when the economy is buffeted by external shocks.

Perhaps Doha was unlikely to achieve much in the current circumstances, but the absence of any continuing dialogue on world trade - at worst, a useful safety valve - adds a new level of risk.

Kuwaiti life reflects the many and varied political trends throughout the Arab world, as the country's open society and economic opportunities have made it a powerful magnet and regional safety valve since the 1950's.

Emigration from Europe was the continent's critical safety valve, without which the pressure placed on populations and states would have been unsustainable.

But emigration was more than merely a safety valve; it contributed to Europe's material and cultural wealth as well.

Labor migration operated as a safety valve against even worse unemployment.

Second, currencies played an important role as an escape valve in the early days of Asia's post-crisis adjustment process.

As long as these maneuvers do not proliferate and turn into easy ammunition for the opposition of the moment, they may provide a safety valve for presidential systems.

In practice, the language barrier impairs this safety valve.

Some people even argue that the Internet acts as a political release valve that helps dictators stay in power.

At best, it is a safety valve for democracy rather than an engine of it.

And offsetting spending cuts provides no safety valve.