Definitions for valve

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valve valve

Spelling: [valv]

IPA: /vælv/

Valve is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in valve (aelvv).

Definitions for valve

noun

1. any device for halting or controlling the flow of a liquid, gas, or other material through a passage, pipe, inlet, outlet, etc.
2. a hinged lid or other movable part that closes or modifies the passage in such a device.
3. Anatomy. a membranous fold or other structure that controls the flow of a fluid, as one that permits blood to flow in one direction only.
4. (in musical wind instruments of the trumpet class) a device for changing the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone.
5. Zoology. one of the two or more separable pieces composing certain shells. either half of the silicified shell of a diatom.
6. Botany. one of the segments into which a capsule dehisces. a flap or lidlike part of certain anthers.
7. Electronics (chiefly British) . vacuum tube (def 1).
8. Archaic. one of the leaves of a double or folding door.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a means of controlling the flow of liquid, gas, etc., by inserting a valve.

Origin of valve

1350-1400; Middle English Latin valvae leaves of a door

Examples for valve

When the handle is turned in either direction the valve is unseated.

People with valve problems develop heart murmurs and may eventually need valve replacement.

The valve was not easy to turn; it seemed fixed with the corrosion of ages.

Turn the valve so that it will close the hole in the same way.

He gave the valve a turn and the Allison smoothed considerably.

At the proper intervals the valve is pulled down by the eccentric C.

Such and such a time, such and such a day, then trouble with the valve.

This was caused by the escaping gas going through the valve.

When he finally opened the valve, he says, the team was able to cool the core for the first time since the crisis began.

The valve was shut by order of the aeronaut, and we descended rapidly.