valve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.
Inflected forms:
form: valves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: valves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: valving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: valved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: valved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
pos: noun
examples: open the valve
close the valve
shut off the valve
An oil refinery has an impressively vast number and variety of valves.
gloss: A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: poppet valve
In nearly all internal combustion engines, the valves are of the poppet type.
gloss: One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.
pos: noun
examples: the ileocecal valve
the atrioventricular valves
gloss: One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
pos: noun
gloss: A vacuum tube.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
pos: noun
gloss: A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
pos: noun
gloss: To control (flow) by means of a valve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: aortic valve
atrioventricular valve
bag valve mask
ball valve
Bauhin's valve
bicuspid valve
blow valve
butterfly valve
check valve
clack valve
colic valve
continuous variable valve timing
demand valve
Douglas valve
D valve
equivalve
escape valve
Eustachian valve
exhaust valve
flapper valve
Fleming valve
foot valve
freeze valve
French valve
gate valve
head valve
heart valve
ileocaecal valve
ileocecal valve
inlet valve
intake valve
jockey valve
Kingston valve
leaf valve
mitral valve
needle valve
non-return valve
overhead valve
pilot valve
piston valve
plug valve
poppet valve
pressure valve
pulmonary valve
pulmonic valve
pump valve
puppet valve
pyloric valve
quadrivalve
relief valve
retaining valve
return valve
reversing valve
safety valve
safety-valve
screw valve
scum valve
semilunar valve
sequential valve timing
side valve
slide valve
sluice valve
snifter valve
snifting valve
spring valve
stop valve
suction valve
swing check valve
tail valve
Thebesian valve
thermionic valve
throttle valve
toggle valve
tricuspid valve
triple valve
trivalve
Tulpius valve
Tulp's valve
univalve
vacuum valve
valval
valvar
valve amplifier
valved
valve gear
valveless
valve of Kerckring
valve of Thebesius
valve of Varolius
valve oil
valve snail
valve timing
valve train
valvoplasty
variable valve timing
vein valve
Wade-Dahl-Till valve
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: ventiel
lang: Albanian
word: kllapë
lang: Arabic
word: صِمَام
roman: ṣimām
lang: Arabic
word: محبس
roman: máḥbas
lang: Arabic
word: بلف
roman: balf
lang: Armenian
word: փական
roman: pʻakan
lang: Armenian
word: կափույր
roman: kapʻuyr
lang: Asturian
word: válvula
lang: Azerbaijani
word: klapan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: valf
lang: Basque
word: balbula
lang: Belarusian
word: кла́пан
roman: klápan
lang: Belarusian
word: ве́нтыль
roman: vjéntylʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: вэнты́ль
roman: ventýlʹ
lang: Bengali
word: কপাটক
roman: kopaṭok
lang: Bulgarian
word: кла́пан
roman: klápan
lang: Bulgarian
word: венти́л
roman: ventíl
lang: Catalan
word: vàlvula
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 閥門 /阀门
roman: fat⁶ mun⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 閥門 /阀门
roman: fámén
lang: Czech
word: ventil
lang: Danish
word: ventil
lang: Dutch
word: ventiel
lang: Esperanto
word: valvo
lang: Estonian
word: ventiil
lang: Estonian
word: klapp
lang: Finnish
word: venttiili
lang: French
word: clapet
lang: French
word: soupape
lang: Galician
word: válvula
lang: Georgian
word: სარქველი
roman: sarkveli
lang: German
word: Ventil
lang: German
word: Armatur
lang: German
word: Hahn
lang: German
word: Wasserhahn
lang: German
word: Schieber
lang: Greek
word: βαλβίδα
roman: valvída
lang: Hebrew
word: שַׁסְתּוֹם
lang: Hindi
word: वाल्व
roman: vālv
lang: Hungarian
word: szelep
lang: Icelandic
word: ventill
lang: Ido
word: valvo
lang: Indonesian
word: katup
lang: Indonesian
word: injap
lang: Indonesian
word: klep
lang: Indonesian
word: pentil
lang: Italian
word: valvola
lang: Japanese
word: バルブ
roman: barubu
lang: Kazakh
word: қақпақша
roman: qaqpaqşa
lang: Kazakh
word: қысымтығын
roman: qysymtyğyn
lang: Khmer
word: សន្ទះបិទបើក
roman: sɑɑntĕəhbətbaək
lang: Korean
word: 밸브
roman: baelbeu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: derîçe
lang: Kyrgyz
word: клапан
roman: klapan
lang: Latvian
word: ventilis
lang: Latvian
word: krāns
lang: Lithuanian
word: sklendė
lang: Macedonian
word: вентил
roman: ventil
lang: Malay
word: injap
lang: Central Melanau
word: nganga
lang: Norman
word: cliavette
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ventil
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ventil
lang: Iranian Persian
word: شیر
roman: šir
lang: Polish
word: zawór
lang: Polish
word: wentyl
lang: Portuguese
word: válvula
lang: Romanian
word: ventil
lang: Russian
word: ве́нтиль
roman: véntilʹ
lang: Russian
word: кла́пан
roman: klápan
lang: Russian
word: задви́жка
roman: zadvížka
lang: Russian
word: засло́нка
roman: zaslónka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cìochag
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pìob-chòmhla
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вѐнтӣл
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vèntīl
lang: Sinhalese
word: වෑල්ව
roman: wǣlwa
lang: Slovak
word: chlopňa
lang: Slovak
word: ventil
lang: Slovene
word: ventil
lang: Spanish
word: válvula
lang: Spanish
word: llave
lang: Spanish
word: grifón
lang: Swahili
word: valvu
lang: Swedish
word: ventil
lang: Tagalog
word: balbula
lang: Tagalog
word: tudlang
lang: Tamil
word: அடைப்பிதழ்
roman: aṭaippitaḻ
lang: Telugu
word: కవాటము
roman: kavāṭamu
lang: Thai
word: วาล์ว
roman: waao
lang: Thai
word: ลิ้น
roman: lín
lang: Tibetan
word: གཅུས་འགོག
roman: gcus 'gog
lang: Tibetan
word: ཕུ་འགྲོ
roman: phu 'gro
lang: Turkish
word: sibop
lang: Turkish
word: supap
lang: Turkish
word: valf
lang: Turkish
word: vana
lang: Ukrainian
word: кла́пан
roman: klápan
lang: Ukrainian
word: ве́нтиль
roman: véntylʹ
lang: Urdu
word: والْو
roman: vālv
lang: Uzbek
word: klapan
lang: Vietnamese
word: van
lang: Welsh
word: falf