valve
/ˈvælv/
valve noun: a device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
Noun
valve (plural valves)
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
- A vacuum tube.
- One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
- A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
- One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
Verb
valve (third-person singular simple present valves, present participle valving, simple past and past participle valved)
- To control (flow) by means of a valve.
valve meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
valve in Hindi
- device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid
- वाल्व vālv
valve in Tamil
- device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid
- அடைப்பிதழ் aṭaippitaḻ
valve in Marathi
- झडप, व्हॉल्व्ह, झडप लावणे
valve in Urdu
- device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid
- والْو vālv
More languagesFewer languages
- valve in Bengali
- কপাটক kopaṭok
- valve in Telugu
- కవాటము kavāṭamu, కొలిమితిత్తి యొక్క మూత kolimititti yokka mūta
- valve in Malayalam
- വാതിൽപ്പലക, അടപ്പുകവാടം
- valve in Kannada
- ತೆರ್ಪು, ಕವಾಟ, ನಿಯಂತ್ರಿತ ಕವಾಟ, ಕೀಲಿಕವಾಟ
- valve in Punjabi
- ਵਾਲਵ
- valve in Gujarati
- વૉલ્વ, વાલ્વ, વોલ્વ
- valve in Odia
- ଭଲଭ୍, ଭଲଭ, ଭଲ୍ଭ୍
- valve in Sinhala
- වෑල්ව wǣlwa
- valve in Nepali
- भल्भ
- valve in Tagalog
- balbula, tudlang, palaypay-butas
- valve in Arabic
- صِمَام ṣimām
- valve in Malay
- injap
- valve in Indonesian
- katup, injap, klep, pentil
- valve in Thai
- วาล์ว waao, ลิ้น lín
- valve in Vietnamese
- van
Examples of valve in a sentence
- Turn on the valve and make sure you have sufficient flow.
- I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
Synonyms of valve
Forms of valve
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | valves |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | valves |
| present participle | valving |
| past participle | valved |
| past | valved |
Origin of valve
From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.
Words formed from valve
- aortic valve
- atrioventricular valve
- bag valve mask
- ball valve
- Bauhin's valve
- bicuspid valve
- blow valve
- butterfly valve
- check valve
- choke valve
- clack valve
- colic valve
- continuous variable valve timing
- demand valve
- Douglas valve
- dry pipe valve
- dry valve
- D valve
- electrovalve
- epivalve
- equivalve
- escape valve
- Eustachian valve
- exhaust valve
- flapper valve
- Fleming valve
- foot valve
- freeze valve
- French valve
- gate valve
- head valve
- heart valve
- hypovalve
- ileocaecal valve
- ileocecal valve
- inlet valve
- intake valve
- jockey valve
- Kingston valve
- leaf valve
- microvalve
- mitral valve
- multivalve
- nanovalve
- needle valve
- non-return valve
- nonvalve
- overhead valve
- pilot valve
- piston valve
- plug valve
- poppet valve
- pressure valve
- pulmonary valve
- pulmonic valve
- pump valve
- puppet valve
- pyloric valve
- quadrivalve
- quinquevalve
Phrases with valve
- valve oil
- scum valve
- side valve
- spit valve
- stop valve
- tail valve
- valve gear
- valve oils
- vein valve
- acorn valve
- screw valve
- slide valve
41 more phrasesFewer phrases
- valve gears
- valve snail
- valve train
- relief valve
- return valve
- safety valve
- sluice valve
- spring valve
- toggle valve
- triple valve
- Tulp's valve
- vacuum valve
- valve snails
- valve timing
- valve trains
- snifter valve
- suction valve
- Tulpius valve
- dry-pipe valve
- snifting valve
- throttle valve
- bag valve masks
- retaining valve
- reversing valve
- semilunar valve
- Thebesian valve
- tricuspid valve
- valve amplifier
- thermionic valve
- valve amplifiers
- swing check valve
- valve of Varolius
- valve of Kerckring
- valve of Thebesius
- Wade-Dahl-Till valve
- variable valve timing
- variable valve timings
- Ramsbottom safety valve
- sequential valve timing
- sequential valve timings
- continuous variable valve timings
Words that rhyme with valve
Questions about valve
- What does valve mean?
- Valve means a device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
- What is valve in Hindi?
- Valve in Hindi is वाल्व (vālv). See Valve meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is valve?
- Valve can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce valve?
- Valve is pronounced /ˈvælv/.
- What is the plural of valve?
- The plural of valve is valves.
Words near valve in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: valve (page history and authors); valve (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valve (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); valve (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); valve (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valve (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valve (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); valve (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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