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Word: valve
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
- A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
- anatomy 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 retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
- biology One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- biology One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
- botany A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
- botany One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
- British A vacuum tube.
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Verb:
- transitive To control (flow) by means of a valve.
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