Valve is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VALVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to provide with a device for controlling the flow of a liquid or gas
• provide with a valve
NOUN:
• a device for controlling the passage of fluid or air through a pipe, duct, etc., especially an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only
• a cylindrical mechanism in a brass instrument which, when depressed or turned, admits air into different sections of tubing and so extends the range of available notes.
• a membranous fold in a hollow organ or tubular structure, such as a blood vessel or the digestive tract, which maintains the flow of the contents in one direction by closing in response to any pressure from reverse flow
• each of the halves of the hinged shell of a bivalve mollusc or brachiopod, or of the parts of the compound shell of a barnacle.
• each of the halves or sections into which a dry fruit (especially a pod or capsule) dehisces.
• device to control the movement of fluid through a pipe
• A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
• A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.
• 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 retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
• One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
• One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
• A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
• One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
• a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
• device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone
• control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid
• the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs
• one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with a valve (a device for controlling the flow of a liquid or gas)

Words related to VALVE

valved13 valveless15 valvelike19 valves12 valving14

How to use VALVE in a sentence

• Then they thought it would be just as well to see where they were, so they opened the valve to let out the gas, and came down a mile in three minutes.
• The upper or delivery valve plate and the lower or foot valve plate should have similar feet.
• If the valve rod be attached to the middle of the link, the valve will derive no motion from, it at all, and the engine will stop.
• A valve shaft extends across the end of the cylinder with two levers standing up, which engage horizontal side rods extending from a small cross head on the end of the valve rod.
• Valve delivery, description of, action of Valve, equilibrium slide.
• Just ahead and a few inches from the pump barrel is a horizontal check valve.
• Following the course of the water toward the point where it enters the boiler, you will find another check valve.
• I took the cap off of the horizontal check, just forward of the pump barrel, and took the valve out and discovered that the check was reversed.
• The only safe way is to scrape them down, for if your valve is cut, you will find the valve seat is cut equally as bad, and they must both be scraped to a perfect fit.
• While the construction of various other devices are such, that while the valve may be equally as dry it does not show the want of oil so clearly as the old style link.
• This is only necessary as a matter of economy, cylinder or valve oil will do very well on the engine, but engine oil will not do for the cylinder.
• Then follows a period of opposition of these motions, during which time the valve pauses momentarily, this corresponding to the time when the port is fully open.
• It is necessary to wet the skin in order that it may work properly and form a hermetic valve.
• From the bottom of the cylinder a tube runs down into the well or reservoir, and water from the well has access to the cylinder through another outward-moving valve.
• This branch passes through a valve chamber between the pump-house and the reservoir.
• At half-past nine, I tried the experiment of throwing out a handful of feathers through the valve.
• He was alone in space, gliding away from the ship, with oxygen hissing softly through the valve and ticking away his life.
• He inspected the needle valve with much care, and had Foster on the front seat trying to start her afterwards.
• He lifted the stem still more, opened one valve on his left wing and swept round and up.
• And then they built that valve apparatus, which was also submerged, so that they could let out the water when they wanted to get at this stone thing, whatever it is.
• The tube can be easily inflated by blowing into the valve, at the same time holding the valve stem down with the teeth.
• It was never known with any degree of exactness whether the doctor pulled the valve too far open or whether the engine was working at that moment under extraordinary pressure.

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