Air pipe
() A pipe for the passage of air |
Blast pipe
() The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast. |
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. |
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. |
Pipe
(n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal |
Pipe
(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. |
Pipe
(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. |
Pipe
(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing |
Pipe
(n.) The key or sound of the voice. |
Pipe
(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. |
Pipe
(n.) The bagpipe |
Pipe
(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore. |
Pipe
(n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king |
Pipe
(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties |
Pipe
(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons |
Pipe
(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. |
Pipe
(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. |
Pipe
(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe |
Pipe
(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying |
Pipe
(v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc. |
Pipe
(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. |
Pipe
(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes |
Pipe clay
() A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments. |
Pipe layer
() One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc. |
Pipe layer
() A politician who works in secret |
Pipe laying
() The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc. |
Pipe laying
() The act or method of making combinations for personal advantage secretly or slyly |
Screen
(n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger |
| 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 |
| screen pass | a short forward pass in which the receiver is protected by a screen of blockers |
| check | obstructing an opponent in ice hockey |
| poke check | knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick |
suction curettage
vacuum aspiration | a method of induced abortion, prior to the th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix |
liposuction
suction lipectomy | lipectomy (especially for cosmetic purposes) in which excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin by suction |
| screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
sucking
suck
suction | the act of sucking |
| attendance check | a call of students' names in a classroom |
smoke screen
smokescreen | an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure, requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures |
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 |
| active matrix screen | a type of LCD screen used for some portable computers, there is a separate circuit for each pixel |
background desktop
screen background | (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
blind
screen | a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight, they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet |
| bowl pipe bowl | a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco |
briar
briar pipe | a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
| calabash calabash pipe | a pipe for smoking, has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd |
calumet
peace pipe
pipe of peace | a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians, smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) |
chanter
melody pipe | reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played |
| 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 |
| clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
computer screen
computer display | a screen used to display the output of a computer to the user |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
| discharge pipe | a pipe through which fluids can be discharged |
drain
drainpipe
waste pipe | a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
| drilling pipe | a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit, rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud |
drone
drone pipe
bourdon | a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone |
| exhaust pipe | a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler |
| exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
fipple flute
fipple pipe
recorder
vertical flute | a tubular wind instrument with finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece |
fire screen
fireguard | a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) |
flageolet
treble recorder
shepherd's pipe | a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes |
flue pipe
flue labial pipe | organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
b hookah
narghile
nargileh
sheesha
shisha
chicha
calean
kalian
water pipe
hubble-bubble
hubbly-bubbly | an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water, a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola |
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 |
light filter
diffusing screen | a transparent filter that reduces the light (or some wavelengths of the light) passing through it |
musette
shepherd's pipe | a small bagpipe formerly popular in France |