Blow valve () See Snifting valve. |
Disc (n.) A flat round plate |
Disc (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals |
Disk (n.) A discus |
Disk (n.) A flat, circular plate |
Disk (n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. |
Disk (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals |
Disk (n.) The whole surface of a leaf. |
Disk (n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. |
Disk (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. |
Disk (n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones. |
Disk (n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. |
Disk (n.) In owls, the space around the eyes. |
Double-beat valve () See under Valve. |
D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Emptying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Empty |
Emptying (n.) The act of making empty. |
Emptying (n.) The lees of beer, cider, etc. |
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. |
-type (n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type (n.) The mark or impression of something |
Type (n.) Form or character impressed |
Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come |
Type (n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities |
Type (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals |
Type (n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy |
Type (n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. |
Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. |
Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively |
Type (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand |
Type (v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of |
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. |
Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. |
Woodbury-type (n.) A print from such a plate. |
emptying voidance evacuation | the act of removing the contents of something |
papermaking | the craft of making paper |
blastoderm germinal disc blastodisc germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
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 |
acetate disk phonograph recording disk | a disk coated with cellulose acetate |
audio CD audio compact disc | compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) |
ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
CD-R compact disc recordable CD-WO compact disc write-once | a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-ROM compact disc read-only memory | a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system), a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user |
clack valve clack clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
compact disk compact disc CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
compact-disk burner CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
diode rectifying tube rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
disk disc | a flat circular plate |
disk access | memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored |
disk brake disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
disk cache | a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk |
disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
disk controller | (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive |
disk drive disc drive hard drive Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
diskette floppy floppy disk | a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit, used to store data or programs for a microcomputer, floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price |
disk harrow disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
hard disc hard disk fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
magnetic disk magnetic disc disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
optical disk optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
phonograph record phonograph recording record disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
poppet poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
RAM disk | (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors, access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off |
Rayleigh disk | an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread, when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity |
removable disk | a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive, removal prevents unauthorized use |
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 |
type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
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 |