Term: slide valve: valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: bootlegging: the act of selling illegally or without permission
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: age of consent: the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: whig: a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: sienna: an earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: air sac: any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: delicatessen: ready-to-eat food products
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: tube foot: tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: iditarod: an important dogsled race run annually on the Iditarod Trail
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: volvariaceae: a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: power takeoff: a device that transfers power from an engine (as in a tractor or other motor vehicle) to another piece of equipment (as to a pump or jackhammer)