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Definition: Safety Valve |
Safety ValveNoun1. A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Valve loaded by spring or other means to release fluid from a system when the pressure in the system reaches a preset level. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A valve fitted to a boiler or other pressure vessel, to allow fluid to escape to the atmosphere when the pressure exceeds the maximum safe value. (BTL). Source: European Union. (references) |
| Automatic steam escape outlet which opens up at critical pressures. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A pressure-relief valve. (references) |
Public Administration | An automatic flap, which is normally closed, that in emergency opens to permit the escape of excess fluid or gas, thus giving protection against excess pressure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Social Sciences | Aid in the form of money or necessities for the indigent, aged or handicapped. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A safety valve is an automatic mechanism for the release of water or steam from a boiler or other system when the pressure or temperature exceeds preset limits. They are often called by more specific names such as pressure relief valves and temperature and pressure relief valves.Safety valves were first used on steam boilers during the industrial revolution. Early boilers without them were prone to accidental explosion when the operator allowed the pressure to become too high, either deliberately or through incompetence.
They are required on water heaters, where they prevent disaster in certain configurations in the event a thermostat should fail. There are still occasional, spectacular failures of older water heaters that lack this equipment. Houses can be levelled by the force of the blast.
The term safety valve is also used metaphorically.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Safety valve."
Synonyms: Safety ValveSynonyms: escape (n), escape cock (n), escape valve (n), relief valve (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Escape | Loophole; (opening); path; refuse; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape. |
Refuge | Jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning rod, lightning conductor; safety belt, airbag, seat belt; antilock brakes, antiskid tires, snow tires. |
Safety | Noun: safety, security, surety, impregnability; invulnerability, invulnerableness; Adjective:; danger past, danger over; storm blown over; coast clear; escape; means of escape; blow valve, safety valve, release valve, sniffing valve; safeguard, palladium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Safety Valve |
| English words defined with "safety valve": Escape pipe, Escape valve ♦ Priming valve, Puppet valve. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "safety valve": bleeder valve ♦ INSPECTOR, BOILER ♦ participative management, participative supervision ♦ safety-engineer, pressure vessels. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Today the United Nations is primarily the protector of the small and the weak, and a safety valve for the strong. |
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Expression using "safety valve": adjusting safety valve. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "safety valve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | valvul sigurimi (safety pin), dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, escape, exit, leakage, orifice, out, outcome, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recourse, recovery, rise, salience, salient, shoot, vent). (various references) | |
Arabic | صمام الأمان (safety). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отдушник (air hole, outlet, spiracle, vent, ventage, venthole, vent-pipe), предпазен клапан, предпазен вентил. (various references) | |
Czech | pojistný ventil. (various references) | |
Danish | sikkerhedsventil (blow out preventer, blowout preventer, Blow-out preventer, blowout preventer stack, emergency valve, failsafe valve, pressure release valve, pressure-relief vent, relief valve, swab valve), overtryksventil (discharge valve, pass valve, pressure control valve, pressure release valve, pressure-relief vent, relief valve), aflastningsventil (emergency valve, relief valve, unloading valve). (various references) | |
Dutch | veiligheidsklep (ball valve, pressure release valve, pressure-relief vent, relief valve), veiligheidsafsluiter (blow out preventer), overdrukklep (pressure release valve, pressure-relief vent, relief valve), overbruggingsklep (override valve), ontlastingsklep (emergency valve, relief valve), omloopklep (by-pass valve, shunt valve), drukventiel (relief valve), afblaasklep (blast gate, discharge valve, emergency valve, pass valve, pressure control valve, relief valve, waste gate). (various references) | |
Finnish | varoventtiili (emergency valve, relief valve). (various references) | |
French | soupape de sécurité, soupape de sûreté. (various references) | |
German | Sicherheitsventil (by-pass valve, override valve, relief valve). (various references) | |
Greek | βαλβίς ασφαλείας, βαλβίδα παράκαμψης (by-pass valve), βαλβίδα εκτόνωσης αερίων (pressure release valve, pressure-relief vent), βαλβίδα ασφαλιστική, βαλβίδα ασφαλείας, ασφαλιστικό επιστόμιο (relief valve), ασφαλιστική βαλβίσ, ασφαλιστική βαλβίδα (pressure release valve, pressure-relief vent), ασφαλιστική δικλείδα, ανακουφιστική βάνα (emergency valve, relief valve), ανακουφιστική βαλβίδα (ball valve, bleeder, bleeder valve, breather valve, discharge valve, emergency valve, non-return valve, overflow valve, pass valve, pressure control valve, relief valve, snifter valve, snifting valve, stop valve, vacuum relief valve, waste gate), ανασταλτική βαλβίδα (override valve). (various references) | |
Hungarian | biztosítószelep. (various references) | |
Italian | valvola di sicurezza (by-pass valve, cut-out, fuse, relief valve). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 安全" , 安全弁 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あ"ぜ"べ". (various references) | |
Manx | cooylley sauchys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | afetysay alvevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | válvula de segurança (by-pass valve, emergency valve, relief valve). (various references) | |
Romanian | supapã de siguranţã. (various references) | |
Russian | предохранительный клапан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sigurnosni ventil (stopcock). (various references) | |
Spanish | válvula de seguridad (emergency valve, pressure release valve, pressure-relief vent, relief valve, unloading valve). (various references) | |
Swedish | säkerhetsventil (blow out preventer, failsafe valve). (various references) | |
Turkish | emniyet valfi (checkvalve), emniyet supabı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-l-s-t-v-v-y" | |
-4 letters: favelas, valvate, velvets, velvety. | |
-5 letters: alates, elates, favela, fealty, featly, festal, feyest, fleets, flytes, leaves, lysate, safely, safety, savate, slatey, slavey, sleave, sleety, steely, stelae, svelte, sylvae, teasel, valets, valves, vastly, velate, velvet, vestal. | |
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