Crossword-Solution: VALVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Valve | n. | A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door. |
| Valve | n. | A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid. |
| Valve | n. | 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. |
| Valve | n. | One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts. |
| Valve | n. | One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. |
| Valve | n. | A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry. |
| Valve | n. | One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VALVE | anagram | VELVA |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with VALVE (5)
Numerous important inventions such as the crystal detector, the oscillating valve, the triode valve--have been due to private or amateur work.
This grim reticence that we Northern people struggle so hard to maintain! I don't know after all but that the excitable Southern safety valve method is the best.
The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.
See Belly.] An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
The water, at the same time, often rushed with great force up the rudder-case, and, forcing up the valve of the water-closet, the floor of his cabin was at times laid under water.
Quotes with VALVE (3)
Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing?" Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.
That afternoon, long after the stool has been put away and the waltzes have stopped, while Werner sits with his transceiver listening to nothing, a little redheaded girl in a maroon cape emerges from a doorway, maybe six or seven years old, small for her age, with big clear eyes that remind him of Jutta’s. She runs across the street to the park and plays there alone, beneath the budding trees, while her mother stands on the corner and bites the tips of her fingers. The girl c…
Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. Its products serve as a retarded correction of perception braked by the system of conventions and stereotypes that stabilize society. They create a slightly updated system which, eventually assimilated by history, will require a new system and so on without end. Art objects serve as points of identification alienated from the co…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 63 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).