valve

From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvælv/

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• Rhymes: -ælv

valve (plural valves)

2. A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.

   open the valve;   close the valve;   shut off the valve

   An oil refinery has an impressively vast number and variety of valves.

   1. Such a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.

      Near-synonym: poppet valve

      In nearly all internal combustion engines, the valves are of the poppet type.

4. (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 control the flow in the opposite direction.

   the ileocecal valve;   the atrioventricular valves

5. One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
6. (chiefly British) A vacuum tube.
7. (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
8. (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
9. (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
10. (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.

• → Cantonese: 嘩佬 / 哗佬 (waa1 lou2)
• → Japanese: バルブ (barubu)
• → Thai: วาล์ว (waao)

valve (third-person singular simple present valves, present participle valving, simple past and past participle valved)

1. (transitive) To control (flow) by means of a valve.

• Velva

From valvama +‎ -e.

valve (genitive valve, partitive valvet)

1. guard, watch

valvoa +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlʋeˣ/, [ˈʋɑ̝lʋe̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋe
• Syllabification^(key): val‧ve
• Hyphenation^(key): val‧ve

valve

1. awakeness; the state of being awake

   Synonym: hereillä olo

   Coordinate terms: uni (“sleep”), minimaalisen tietoisuuden tila (“state of minimal consciousness”), tiedottomuus (“unconsciousness”), vegetatiivinen tila (“vegetative state”), kooma (“coma”)

   olla valveilla ― to be awake

• “valve”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

From Latin valva.

• IPA^(key): /valv/

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valve f (plural valves)

1. valve

   Synonym: soupape

• valve cardiaque

• “valve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈval.ve/
• Rhymes: -alve
• Hyphenation: vàl‧ve

valve f

1. plural of valva