Dictionary Entry
valve
valve is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.
- 5noun
One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
- 6noun
A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
- 7noun
One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- 8noun
one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods
- 9noun
the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs
- 10noun
control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid
- 11noun
device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone
- 12noun
a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
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