Definitions for safety-valve

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safety-valve safety valve

Safety-Valve is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 408 anagrams from letters in safety-valve (-aaeeflstvvy).

Definitions for safety-valve

noun

1. a device that, when actuated by a gas or vapor pressure above a predetermined level, opens and allows the gas or vapor to escape until its pressure is reduced to a pressure equal to or below that of the predetermined level. Compare relief valve.
2. a harmless outlet for emotion, tension, etc.

Origin of safety-valve

First recorded in 1805-15

Examples for safety-valve

They do no harm, and are a safety valve which should be understood.

The sound was exactly that of steam roaring from a locomotive's safety valve.

That sounds like you were getting up a head of steam—the safety valve!

Watt's brain, working at high pressure, needed a safety valve.

We had to have some safety valve, and if we had not been laughing we might have been crying.

This safety valve allows citizens to sound the alarm and challenge those whose views are hateful and totalitarian.

All keyed up for war and no place to 164 go, and this was a kind of safety valve.

So you'll have to be my safety valve, confidant and confessor.

There was but one safety valve, and that was on the other boiler.

That one terrible, hysterical outburst was perhaps the safety valve.