Adjustable (a.) Capable of being adjusted. |
Blow valve () See Snifting valve. |
Double-beat valve () See under Valve. |
D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Half-port (n.) One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole. |
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. |
Port (n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol. |
Port (v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms |
Port (v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages. |
Port (n.) A passageway |
Port (n.) An opening in the side of a vessel |
Port (n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine |
Port (v. t.) To carry |
Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder |
Port (n.) The manner in which a person bears himself |
Port (n.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow) |
Port (v. t.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship |
Port-royalist (n.) One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist. |
Proportioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proportion |
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. |
port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
Port Arthur | a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (), Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese |
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 |
adjustable wrench adjustable spanner | can be changed to different settings |
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 |
carport car port | garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles |
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 |
intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
interface port | (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) |
larboard port | the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose |
parallel interface parallel port | an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously |
poppet poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
port embrasure porthole | an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through |
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 |
serial port | an interface (commonly used for modems and mice and some printers) that transmits data a bit at a time |
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 |
port-wine stain nevus flammeus | a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple |
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 |
port port wine | sweet darked dessert wine originally from Portugal |
port | a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country |
free port | a port open on equal terms to all commercial vessels |
home port | the port from which a ship originates of where it is registered |
port of entry point of entry | a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise |
port of call | any port where a ship stops except its home port |
free port free zone | an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties |
treaty port | a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty |
Lushun Port Arthur | a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula, now a part of Luda |
Port-au-Prince Haitian capital | the capital and largest city of Haiti |
Port of Spain Port-of-Spain capital of Trinidad and Tobago | the capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad |