ALL meanings of valve
valve
V v - noun valve any device for halting or controlling the flow of a liquid, gas, or other material through a passage, pipe, inlet, outlet, etc. 1
- noun valve a hinged lid or other movable part that closes or modifies the passage in such a device. 1
- noun valve 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. 1
- noun valve (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. 1
- noun valve Zoology. one of the two or more separable pieces composing certain shells. either half of the silicified shell of a diatom. 1
- noun valve Botany. one of the segments into which a capsule dehisces. a flap or lidlike part of certain anthers. 1
- noun valve Electronics (chiefly British) . vacuum tube (def 1). 1
- noun valve Archaic. one of the leaves of a double or folding door. 1
- verb with object valve to provide with a means of controlling the flow of liquid, gas, etc., by inserting a valve. 1
- noun valve for water, fluid 1
- noun valve body, heart 1
- noun valve brass instrument 1
- noun valve mollusc shell 1
- countable noun valve A valve is a device attached to a pipe or a tube which controls the flow of air or liquid through the pipe or tube. 0
- countable noun valve A valve is a small piece of tissue in your heart or in a vein which controls the flow of blood and keeps it flowing in one direction only. 0
- noun valve any device that shuts off, starts, regulates, or controls the flow of a fluid 0
- noun valve a flaplike structure in a hollow organ, such as the heart, that controls the one-way passage of fluid through that organ 0
- noun valve an evacuated electron tube containing a cathode, anode, and, usually, one or more additional control electrodes. When a positive potential is applied to the anode, electrons emitted from the cathode are attracted to the anode, constituting a flow of current which can be controlled by a voltage applied to the grid to produce amplification, oscillation, etc 0
- noun valve any of the separable pieces that make up the shell of a mollusc 0
- noun valve a device on some brass instruments by which the effective length of the tube may be varied to enable a chromatic scale to be produced 0
- noun valve any of the several parts that make up a dry dehiscent fruit, esp a capsule 0
- noun valve either of the two halves of a diatom cell wall 0
- noun valve a leaf of a double door or of a folding door 0
- noun valve either of the halves of a double door or any of the leaves of a folding door 0
- noun valve a gate regulating the flow of water in a sluice, channel, etc. 0
- noun valve a membranous fold or structure which permits body fluids to flow in one direction only, or opens and closes a tube, chamber, etc. 0
- noun valve any of the segments into which a pod or capsule separates when it bursts open 0
- noun valve a lidlike part in some anthers, through which pollen is discharged 0
- noun valve either of the boxlike halves forming the cell walls of a diatom 0
- noun valve a device, esp. a rectifier, that allows current to flow in only one direction 0
- noun valve electron tube 0
- noun valve any device in a pipe or tube that permits a flow in one direction only, or regulates the flow of whatever is in the pipe, by means of a flap, lid, plug, etc. acting to open or block passage 0
- noun valve the flap, lid, plug, etc. 0
- noun valve a device in certain brass instruments, as the trumpet, that opens (or closes) an auxiliary to the main tube, lengthening (or shortening) the air column and lowering (or raising) the pitch 0
- noun valve each separate part making up the shell of a mollusk, barnacle, etc. 0
- noun valve any of the parts forming the sheath of an ovipositor in certain insects 0
- verb transitive valve to fit with or make use of a valve or valves 0
- verb transitive valve to regulate the flow of (a fluid) by means of a valve or valves 0
- noun valve A valve is a device attached to a pipe or a tube that controls the flow of air or liquid through the pipe or tube. 0
- noun valve A valve is a device that shuts off, starts, or controls the flow of a fluid. 0