valve
Meaning of valve
noun
- a device for controlling the passage of fluid or air through a pipe, duct, etc., especially an automatic device allowing movement in one direction only.
a valve shuts off the flow from the boiler when the water is hot enough
- each of the halves of the hinged shell of a bivalve mollusc or brachiopod, or of the parts of the compound shell of a barnacle.
late Middle English (denoting a leaf of a folding or double door): from Latin valva .
Information about valve
Hyphenation of valve
valve
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- valve is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of valve
- German: Ventil
- Italian: valvola
- Spanish: válvula
- French: vanne, soupape, valvule, valve
- Portuguese: válvula
Anagrams of valve
Words that rhyme with valve
Calve, calve, bihalve, halve, Consalve, Gonsalve, eyesalve, lipsalve, salve, autovalve, bivalve, blowvalve, epivalve, equivalve, hypovalve, inequivalve, multivalve, nonvalve, plurivalve, quadrivalve, quinquevalve, spirivalve, subequivalve, trivalve, undervalve, unequivalve, univalve
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