Noun: valve
| Singular | valve |
| Plural | valves |
Sample Sentences
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open the valve
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close the valve
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shut off the valve
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An oil refinery has an impressively vast number and variety of valves.
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Near-synonym: poppet valve
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In nearly all internal combustion engines, the valves are of the poppet type.
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the ileocecal valve
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the atrioventricular valves
Nouns inflected like valve
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva. See: Middle English Nouns '
valve', Latin Nouns '
valva'.
Verbs referencing "valve"
English Nouns
vulva.