Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
Country seat
() A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. |
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. |
Seat
(n.) The place or thing upon which one sits |
Seat
(n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides |
Seat
(n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits |
Seat
(n.) A sitting |
Seat
(n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. |
Seat
(n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests |
Seat
(v. t.) To place on a seat |
Seat
(v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like |
Seat
(v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of |
Seat
(v. t.) To fix |
Seat
(v. t.) To settle |
Seat
(v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in |
Seat
(v. i.) To rest |
Spring
(v. i.) To leap |
Spring
(v. i.) To issue with speed and violence |
Spring
(v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
Spring
(v. i.) To fly back |
Spring
(v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface |
Spring
(v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth |
Spring
(v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor |
Spring
(v. i.) To grow |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to spring up |
Spring
(v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to explode |
Spring
(v. t.) To crack or split |
Spring
(v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring |
Spring
(v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong |
Spring
(v. t.) To pass over by leaping |
Spring
(v. i.) A leap |
Spring
(v. i.) A flying back |
Spring
(v. i.) Elastic power or force. |
Spring
(v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. |
Spring
(v. i.) Any source of supply |
Spring
(v. i.) Any active power |
Spring
(v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source |
Spring
(v. i.) A race |
Spring
(v. i.) A youth |
Spring
(v. i.) A shoot |
Spring
(v. i.) That which causes one to spring |
Spring
(v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow |
Spring
(v. i.) The time of growth and progress |
Spring
(v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. |
Spring
(v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position |
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. |
leap
leaping
spring
saltation
bound
bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
| hot seat | a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism |
| spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
leopard frog
spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog
spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
spring peeper
Hyla crucifer | a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring |
| spring chicken | a young chicken having tender meat |
| 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 |
| spring cankerworm | variably colored looper, larva of Paleacrita vernata |
accelerator
throttle
throttle valve | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
| air cushion air spring | a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
bell seat
balloon seat | a seat that has a bell shape (on some th century chairs) |
bicycle seat
saddle | a seat for the rider of a bicycle |
| box box seat | the driver's seat on a coach, an armed guard sat in the box with the driver |
| box seat | a special seat in a theater or grandstand box |
| box spring | a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth |
| bucket seat | a low single seat as in cars or planes |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
| car seat | a seat in a car |
clack valve
clack
clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
coil spring
volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil |
| death seat | the car seat beside the driver of an automobile, believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident |
dickey dickie dicky dickey-seat
dickie-seat
dicky-seat | a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
ejection seat
ejector seat
capsule | a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency, then the pilot descends by parachute |
electric chair
chair death chair
hot seat | an instrument of execution by electrocution, resembles an ordinary seat for one person, the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair |
| 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 |
| jump seat | a folding seat in an automobile |
| leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
love seat
loveseat
tete-a-tete
vis-a-vis | small sofa that seats two people |
| mercy seat | the golden covering of the ark of the covenant |
| mercy seat | the throne of God |
| plane seat | a seat on a commercial airliner |
poppet
poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
potty seat
potty chair | toilet consisting of a small seat used by young children |
ringside
ringside seat | first row of seating, has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring |
rocker arm
valve rocker | a lever pivoted at the center, used especially to push a valve down in an internalombustion engine |
| rumble seat | a folding outside seat in the back of some early cars |
| saddle seat | a chair seat that is slightly concave and sometimes has a thickened ridge in the center, the saddle seat fitted his buttocks nicely |
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 |
| seat | any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit), he dusted off the seat before sitting down |
| seat | furniture that is designed for sitting on, there were not enough seats for all the guests |
| seat | the cloth covering for the buttocks, the seat of his pants was worn through |
| seat | a part of a machine that supports or guides another part |
seat belt
seatbelt | a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident |
| seat cushion | a cushion that makes a seat more comfortable |