Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
Check
(n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger |
Check
(n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress |
Check
(n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action |
Check
(n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified |
Check
(n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below. |
Check
(n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard |
Check
(n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. |
Check
(n.) Small chick or crack. |
Check
(v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check |
Check
(v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon |
Check
(v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check |
Check
(v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove. |
Check
(v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended. |
Check
(v. t.) To make checks or chinks in |
Check
(v. i.) To make a stop |
Check
(v. i.) To clash or interfere. |
Check
(v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint. |
Check
(v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying |
Check
(v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. |
Check
(a.) Checkered |
Double-beat valve
() See under Valve. |
D valve
() A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Extraction
(n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out |
Extraction
(n.) Derivation from a stock or family |
Extraction
(n.) That which is extracted |
Kingston valve
() A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line. |
Valve
(n.) A door |
Valve
(n.) 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. |
Valve
(n.) 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 |
Valve
(n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts. |
Valve
(n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. |
Valve
(n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry. |
Valve
(n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. |
Valve-shell
(n.) Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. |
| check-in | the act of reporting your presence (as at an airport or a hotel) |
check checkout
check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
| spot check | a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning, spot checks ensure a high level of performance by employees |
checkup
medical checkup
medical examination
medical exam
medical
health check | a thorough physical examination, includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person |
| check | (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king |
| discovered check | a check on the opponent's king that is delivered by moving a piece out of the line of attack by a queen or rook or bishop |
| extraction | the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force), the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction |
| check | obstructing an opponent in ice hockey |
| poke check | knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick |
| attendance check | a call of students' names in a classroom |
bridle
check curb | the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess, his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper |
| valve | one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods |
| valve | the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs |
accelerator
throttle
throttle valve | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
| check | a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard), she wore a skirt with checks |
clack valve
clack
clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
| exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
houndstooth check
hound's-tooth check
dogstooth check
dogs-tooth check
dog's-tooth check | textile with a pattern of small broken or jagged checks |
| intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
poppet
poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
rocker arm
valve rocker | a lever pivoted at the center, used especially to push a valve down in an internalombustion engine |
safety valve
relief valve
escape valve
escape cock
escape | a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler), it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
| slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
sluicegate
sluice valve
floodgate
penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
tube vacuum tube
thermionic vacuum tube
thermionic tube
electron tube
thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
| valve | control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid |
| valve | device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone |
| valve-in-head engine | internalombustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head |
check
chip | a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something |
origin
descent
extraction | properties attributable to your ancestry, he comes from good origins |
mitral valve
bicuspid valve
left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
tricuspid valve
right atrioventricular valve | valve with three cusps, situated between the right atrium and the right ventricle, allows blood to pass from atrium to ventricle and closes to prevent backflow when the ventricle contracts |
| atrioventricular valve | either of two heart valves through which blood flows from the atria to the ventricles, prevents return of blood to the atrium |
| aortic valve | a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta, prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart |
| pulmonary valve | a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery, prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart |
| semilunar valve | a heart valve with cusps shaped like half-moons, prevents blood from flowing back into the heart |
heart valve
cardiac valve | a valve to control one-way flow of blood |
| valve | a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it |
| ileocecal valve | valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine, prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine |
pyloric sphincter
pyloric valve
musculus sphincter pylori | the sphincter muscle of the pylorus that separates the stomach from the duodenum |
hindrance
hinderance
deterrent
impediment
balk
baulk
check handicap | something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress |
assay
check | an appraisal of the state of affairs, they made an assay of the contents, a check on its dependability under stress |
countercheck
double check | something that checks the correctness of a previous check |
confirmation
verification
check substantiation | additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct, fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory |
| bed check | a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be |
parity check
redundancy check
odd-even check | a system of checking for errors in computer functioning |