Blow valve () See Snifting valve. |
Cover (v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another |
Cover (v. t.) To envelop |
Cover (v. t.) To invest (one's self with something) |
Cover (v. t.) To hide sight |
Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on |
Cover (v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger |
Cover (v. t.) To remove from remembrance |
Cover (v. t.) To extend over |
Cover (v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on. |
Cover (v. t.) To copulate with (a female) |
Cover (n.) Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing |
Cover (n.) Anything which veils or conceals |
Cover (n.) Shelter |
Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game |
Cover (n.) The lap of a slide valve. |
Cover (n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture |
Cover (v. i.) To spread a table for a meal |
Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Cover-shame (n.) Something used to conceal infamy. |
Double-beat valve () See under Valve. |
D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Gasket (n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines |
Gasket (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps. |
Gasket (n.) Any ring or washer of packing. |
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. |
air cover | the use of military aircraft to provide protection against attack by enemy aircraft during ground or naval operations |
cover covering fire | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations, artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal |
cover covering screening masking | the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it, the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft |
cover | a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent), her new name and passport are cover for her next assignment |
cover-up | concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public |
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 |
bedspread bedcover bed cover bed covering counterpane spread | decorative cover for a bed |
binding book binding cover back | the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book, the book had a leather binding |
blanket cover | bedding that keeps a person warm in bed, he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep |
butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
clack valve clack clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
cover cover version cover song | a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else, they made a cover of a Beatles' song |
cover glass cover slip | a small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide |
cover plate | covering consisting of a plate used to cover over or close in a chamber or receptacle |
diode rectifying tube rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
dust cover | a removable plastic protective covering for a piece of equipment |
dust cover dust sheet | a large piece of cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period |
exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
floor cover floor covering | a covering for a floor |
gasket | seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint |
head gasket | a gasket to seal a cylinder head |
heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
lens cap lens cover | cap used to keep lens free of dust when not in use |
manhole cover | a flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street) |
mattress cover | bedclothes that provide a cover for a mattress |
poppet poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
protective covering protective cover protection | a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury, they had no protection from the fallout, wax provided protection for the floors |
record sleeve record cover | a sleeve for storing a phonograph record |
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 |
screen cover covert concealment | a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something, a screen of trees afforded privacy, under cover of darkness, the brush provided a covert for game, the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background |
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 |
top cover | covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container), he removed the top of the carton, he couldn't get the top off of the bottle, put the cover back on the kettle |
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 |
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 |