English Explanatory Dictionary

valve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
  2. Such a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
  3. One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.
  4. One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
  5. A vacuum tube.
  6. One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
  7. A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
  8. One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
  9. One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
verb
  1. To control (flow) by means of a valve.

Pronunciation

/ˈvælv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-valve.wav

Word forms

valve valves valving valved

Etymology

From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.

Synonyms

poppet valve

Derived words

aortic valve atrioventricular valve bag valve mask ball valve Bauhin's valve bicuspid valve blow valve butterfly valve check valve clack valve colic valve continuous variable valve timing demand valve Douglas valve D valve equivalve escape valve Eustachian valve exhaust valve flapper valve Fleming valve foot valve freeze valve French valve gate valve head valve heart valve ileocaecal valve ileocecal valve inlet valve intake valve jockey valve Kingston valve leaf valve mitral valve needle valve non-return valve overhead valve pilot valve piston valve plug valve poppet valve pressure valve pulmonary valve pulmonic valve pump valve puppet valve pyloric valve quadrivalve relief valve retaining valve return valve reversing valve safety valve safety-valve screw valve scum valve semilunar valve sequential valve timing side valve

Translations

Afrikaans: ventiel Albanian: kllapë Arabic: صِمَام Arabic: محبس Arabic: بلف Armenian: փական Armenian: կափույր Asturian: válvula Azerbaijani: klapan Azerbaijani: valf Basque: balbula Belarusian: кла́пан Belarusian: ве́нтыль Belarusian: вэнты́ль Bengali: কপাটক Bulgarian: кла́пан Bulgarian: венти́л Catalan: vàlvula Chinese Cantonese: 閥門 /阀门 Chinese Mandarin: 閥門 /阀门 Czech: ventil Danish: ventil Dutch: ventiel Esperanto: valvo Estonian: ventiil Estonian: klapp Finnish: venttiili French: clapet French: soupape Galician: válvula Georgian: სარქველი German: Ventil German: Armatur German: Hahn German: Wasserhahn German: Schieber Greek: βαλβίδα Hebrew: שַׁסְתּוֹם Hindi: वाल्व Hungarian: szelep Icelandic: ventill Ido: valvo Indonesian: katup Indonesian: injap Indonesian: klep Indonesian: pentil Italian: valvola Japanese: バルブ Kazakh: клапан Khmer: សន្ទះបិទបើក Korean: 밸브 Northern Kurdish: derîçe Kyrgyz: клапан Latvian: ventilis Latvian: krāns Lithuanian: sklendė Macedonian: вентил
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