Valve

Definition: Valve

Valve

Noun

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

2. Device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone.

3. Control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "valve" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Etymology: Valve \Valve\, noun. [Latin valva the leaf, fold, or valve of a door: compare to French valve.]. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Engineering & Technology

Food & Agriculture

Hydrologic

Mechanical Engineering

Public Administration

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Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

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.

Stopper

Cover; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve.

Crosswords: Valve

Finnish (arouse, awaken), French (air-valve, valve).

He's having trouble with his piffle valve. (Evil Under the Sun; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

Main steam stop valve. (The Sand Pebbles; writing credit: Richard McKenna; Robert Anderson)

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References

• Innovative Valve Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Miyairi Valve Mfg. Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Okano Valve Mfg. Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Nittan Valve Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Toa Valve Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• 1998 Variable Valve Actuation and Power Boost (reference)

• Variable Valve Actuation 2000 (reference)

• Valve and Actuator Technology (reference)

• Hydraulic Cartridge Valve Technology (Amalgam's Series in Global Fluid Power) (reference)

• Chlamydia Pneumoniae in Aortic Valve Sclerosis & Thoracic Aortic Disease: Aspects of Pathogenesis & Therapy (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala disse (reference)

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Periodicals

• Journal Of Heart Valve Disease (reference)

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Music

• Valve (reference)

• Valve, No. 10 (reference)

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High Tech

• M & S SYSTEMS VMVP1K Valve Inlet Installation Kits for 1 Valve System (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Interbath B28722 White Shower Arm Diverter Valve (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Left ventricle has been cut open to display characteristic severe thickening of mitral valve, thickened chordae tendineae, and hypertrophied left ventricular myocardium. Autopsy. Credit: CDC.

Aorta has been removed to show thickened, fused aortic valve leaflets and opened coronary arteries from above. Autopsy. Credit: CDC.

Swinging Valve for Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA.

Opening the valve into the wind of an evacuated glass flask while the observer holds his breath to keep from contaminating the sample. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Figure 15. - The Valve Sounding Lead (in section). In: "The Voyage of the CHALLENGER - The Atlantic" Vol I, by Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 1878. P. 62. Library Call Number Q 115.C59 1878. v. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 7. Old valve bottle. Although this type of water sampling bottle was first invented around 1860, unfortunately the original inventor is unknown. Such a bottle was utilized on the PORCUPINE and on the BLAKE. The bottle shown here was made by Max Marx. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 64. N.I.O. bottle designed by Francis E. Pierce, Dennis I. Gaunt, and Richard Dobson at the National Institute of Oceanography at Grand-Bretagne. This utilized a valve for closing but also inverted. The mounting for the therm ometer toppled over by the action of a spring. This bottle was used by the DISC OVERY II in the Gulf of Gascogne at 4700 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 67. Mecabolier bottle, a mass-produced inverting water sampling bottle. This instrument closes by means of a valve and is a modern form of the Knudsen type. Left: descending. Right: ascending. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Carlos Garcia (left), NRCS, and Milton Hooper, Environmental Specialist at the Goshute Indian Reservation, discuss irrigation water management near a supply valve. [Slide 97CS3182]. Credit: Ron Nichols.

One of the ponds built to support wildlife in the Venedy, IL. area drain valve testing. Credit: USDA.

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Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritualheroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries by Dante Alighieri

Get a new valve stem

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Health

The hiatus itself acts like a second valve. (references)

In other cases, surgery to replace a valve or repair the aorta may be necessary. (references)

Also curable are forms caused by anatomical problems, such as a heart valve defect. (references)

Business

Domestic production of pumps and compressors in Ecuador is non-existent, and domestic valve production is limited to iron gate valves and bronze seals. (references)

In addition, the construction of a submarine gas pipeline 37km long stretching from the Gulf of Guayaquil to the mainland will provide further sales opportunities for foreign pump and valve manufacturers. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Most promising sub-sectors include; programmable logic controllers, control valve systems, pressure gauges, and thermostats. (references)

Trade

Mauritius

Imports of the following items are prohibited: ball valve bottles, caps for toy guns, recapped tires, white phosphorous matches, certain firecrackers, kerosene stoves, water scooters, ivory and tortoise shell, underwater fishing guns, candy in the form of cigarettes, toy crash helmets, cigarette papers, used motor vehicle spare parts, electric water heaters with bare elements, portable electric lamps, teething rings, rolling machines (other than industrial-type rolling machines) for cigarette manufacturing, blue asbestos and its products, and items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). A detailed list is available from the Embassy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "valve": absorber valve ♦ adjusting safety valve ♦ admission valve ♦ air admission valve ♦ air starting valve ♦ air suction valve ♦ Air valve ♦ alternating valve ♦ amplifier valve ♦ angle valve ♦ Aortic Valve ♦ Aortic Valve Insufficiency ♦ Aortic Valve Prolapse ♦ Aortic Valve Stenosis ♦ ascension pipe valve ♦ atmospheric valve ♦ atrioventricular valve ♦ Balance valve ♦ Balanced valve ♦ Ball valve ♦ Bianchi valve ♦ bicuspid valve ♦ bleeder valve ♦ Blow valve ♦ blowoff valve ♦ brass valve ♦ butterfly valve ♦ bypass valve ♦ cap valve ♦ cardiac valve ♦ chamber of valve ♦ check valve ♦ clack valve ♦ clapper valve ♦ control valve ♦ copper valve ♦ corporation valve ♦ cross valve ♦ Cruveilhier valve ♦ Cruveilhier's valve ♦ cushioned check valve ♦ cutoff valve ♦ D valve ♦ damper valve ♦ demand valve ♦ diaphragm valve ♦ discharge valve ♦ disk of a swing check valve ♦ diverting valve ♦ double seated valve ♦ dump valve ♦ electronic valve ♦ emergency valve ♦ Equilibrium valve ♦ Escape valve ♦ Eustachian valve ♦ Exhaust valve ♦ Expansion valve ♦ Flap valve ♦ Float valve ♦ flow control valve ♦ Foot valve ♦ Frost valve ♦ fuel dump valve ♦ gas extracting valve ♦ gate valve ♦ globe valve ♦ governor valve ♦ Gridiron valve ♦ Hasner's valve ♦ head at closed valve ♦ heart valve ♦ Heart Valve Prolapse ♦ Heart Valve Prosthesis ♦ Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation ♦ high pressure valve ♦ Hydraulic valve ♦ Ileocecal Valve ♦ ileocolic valve ♦ induction valve ♦ Injection valve ♦ inlet valve ♦ inline valve ♦ intake valve ♦ intel valve ♦ inward relief valve ♦ inward vent valve ♦ isolating valve ♦ jettison valve ♦ Kingston valve ♦ Leaf valve ♦ left atrioventricular valve ♦ light valve ♦ liquor valve ♦ lung governed demand valve ♦ manoeuvring valve ♦ membrane valve ♦ Mitral Valve ♦ Mitral Valve Insufficiency ♦ mitral valve prolapse ♦ Mitral Valve Stenosis. Additional references.

Beginning with "valve": valve-based, valve-driven, valve-gear, valve-in-head engine, valve-like, valve-making, valve-powered, Valve-shell, valve-trumpet.

Ending with "valve": all-valve, ball-valve, eight-valve, four-valve, multi-valve, safety-valve.

Containing "valve": needle-valve seat, three-valve-per-cylinder.

Albanian

valvul (petcock), rubinet (faucet, spigot, stopcock, tap, turncock, water tap), piston (piston, sucker), membranë (diaphragm, envelope, involucre, membrane, pellicle, tunic, Tunica, webbing), llambë radioje, kllapë (clip, cog, cramp, damper, dovetail, mortise, parenthesis, rabbet, scarf). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مصراع (hemistich, shutter), ‏صمام اليكتروني (tube), ‏صمام (window), ‏الصمام (sluice, tube). (various references)

Bulgarian 

раковина (carapace, cockle, cockleshell, conch, scallop, shell), черупка на стрида, черупка на мида, клапан (shut off, throttle), клапа (finger-hole, flap, gate, key, pallet, register, shutter, stop, vent, ventage, ventil), вентил (clack, faucet, ventil), електронна лампа (diode, radio tube, tube, vacuum tube, vacuum valve), преградка (septum). (various references)

Chinese 

閥 (clique), 阀门 (valves), 罨 (foment), 瓣膜 , 活塞 (piston). (various references)

Czech

ventil (vent), víèko (cap, cover, lid), výbojka (vacuum tube), záklopka (register), klapka (extension, key, shutter), elektronka (vacuum tube), chlopeò. (various references)

Danish

ventil (tube). (various references)

Dutch

klep (tube), ventiel (air-valve, tube), schuif (bolt). (various references)

Esperanto

valvo (tube), klapo. (various references)

Faeroese

skel (bark, husk, peel, shell, tube), klaffur (tube). (various references)

Farsi 

سوپاپ , سرپوش (Cap, Capsule, Casquet, Cover, Lid), دریچه (Choke, Closure, Hatch, Lid, Porthole, Scuttle, Slacker, Vent, Wicket, Window), در (About, At, Door, For, Pearl, Plug, Pylon, To, Wicket), بشکل دریچه یاسوپاپ . (various references)

Finnish

venttiili (ventilator). (various references)

French

soupape (vacuum tube), valve (disk of a swing check valve, inner tube valve, vacuum tube, valve clack of a check valve, valve flap of a check valve), clapet (clack valve, valve piece). (various references)

Frisian

fentyl (tube). (various references)

German

Ventil (air-valve, gate, outlet, piston, safety valve, tube, vent), Klappe (back, can it, clack, clapperboard, flap, key, leaf, lid, patch, shutter, Sidegate, strap, swat, tab, tailgate, trap, trapdoor), Röhre (barrel, boob tube, box, cavity, channel, drainage pipe, duct, gallery, oven, pipe, stem, strip, telly, tube, tubing), Elektronenröhre (electron tube, electronic tube). (various references)

Greek 

βαλβίδα (throttle). (various references)

Hebrew 

מנורת רדיו, מנורה אלקטרונית, לשסתם, שסתום (piston, stopcock), נורה אלקטרונית. (various references)

Hungarian

szelep (damper, regulation siphon, ventil). (various references)

Indonesian

klep, katup, angkup-angkup (tweezers). (various references)

Italian

valvola (clack, fuse, gate, safeguard, tube, valvule). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

バルビツル酸 (ballerina, ballet, barbituric acid, baroque, barrel, browse, bulb, vacuum tube volt meter, Valentine, Valentine Day, Valentino Garavani, valley, valve head, valve volt, volley, volleyball), ヴァチカン市国 (bolt, valid, valkyrie, vampire, variable, variation, variety, Vatican City State, velocity, vendor, Venus, videotape, viola, vision, vocal, vocalist, voicing, volt, volume, vorpal, wizard), 活栓 (faucet), 弁膜 , 弁 (braid, dialect, discrimination, petal, speech). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

バルブ (bulb), ヴァルヴ , べんまく, べん (braid, convenience, counter for whipping, crown, dialect, discrimination, evacuation, excreta, facility, petal, speech, stools), かっせん (battle, engagement, faucet, hot line, live wire, secant). (various references)

Korean 

벨브 (valves). (various references)

Manx

cooylley (drop, hatch, leaf of table, shutter, sluice gate, stopcock, wing, wing of door). (various references)

Norwegian

ventil (tube). (various references)

Papiamen

vèntil (tube). (various references)

Pig Latin

alvevay.(various references)

Portuguese

válvula (gate, tube). (various references)

Romanian

ventil (check), valvulã, valvã, supapã (clack, flapper), lampã de radio (tube), cu valvule, clapã (clack, flap, flapper, fly, key, stop, stopple), canat (fold, leaf, wing). (various references)

Russian 

клапан (clack, flap, flapper, vent, ventage). (various references)

Scottish

sionnach (a fox, fox, the reed of a bagpipe, valve of bellows). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ventil (cutoff, turncock, vent, vent-pipe), zalistak (flap, piston, stopple), košuljica (skin). (various references)

Spanish

válvula (pallet, shutoff, tube, vent). (various references)

Swedish

ventil (scuttle, throttle, tube, ventilator). (various references)

Turkish

ventil, valf (register), supap, ses düzenleme düğmesi, radyo lambası, kapakçık (operculum, valvule), kapı kanadı, çenet. (various references)

Ukrainian

клапанний (valvular), клапан (flapper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

van ốc (screw valve), lò xo xupap (valve spring), hình van (valve-shaped, valviform). (various references)

Welsh

gwerchyr (cover, lid). (various references)

asse, assi, cymbala, cymbalis, cymbalo, cymbalum, valva. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "valve": valved, valveless, valvelet, valvelets, valves. (additional references)

Words ending with "valve": bivalve, inequivalve, trivalve, univalve. (additional references)

Words containing "valve": bivalved, bivalves, inequivalved, trivalves, univalves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Valve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alve, malve, valae, valde, valee, valel, valen, valle, valva, valved, valvo, varve, vav, vave, Velbe, velde, velf, velve, veve, vilde, vilve, vlave, volf, volve, vulve, vulvi. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lave, leva, vale, veal, vela.

-2 letters: ale, ave, lav, lea, lev, vav.

-3 letters: ae, al, el, la.

+1 letter: valved, valves, vulvae.

+2 letters: bivalve, revival, valvate, valvule, volvate, vulvate.

+3 letters: bivalved, bivalves, revivals, trivalve, univalve, valvelet, valvulae, valvules.

+4 letters: evasively, evolvable, overvalue, revivable, trivalves, univalves, valveless, valvelets, violative.

+5 letters: aversively, evaluative, invasively, overlavish, overvalued, overvalues, revivalism, revivalist, revolvable, survivable, vaudeville, vocatively.