Blow valve () See Snifting valve. |
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. |
Stem (v. i.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem (n.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind |
Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch |
Stem (n.) The stock of a family |
Stem (n.) A branch of a family. |
Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel |
Stem (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position |
Stem (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk |
Stem (n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. |
Stem (n.) The entire central axis of a feather. |
Stem (n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. |
Stem (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note |
Stem (n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection |
Stem (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from |
Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. |
Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel |
Stem (v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. |
Stem-clasping (a.) Embracing the stem with its base |
Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch. |
Stem-winding (a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem |
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. |
stem turn stem | a turn made in skiing, the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
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 |
bow fore prow stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
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 |
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 |
poppet poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
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 |
shank stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
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 |
stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
stem-winder | a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem |
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 |
brainstem brain-stem brain stem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus |
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 |
stem cell | an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells) |
hematopoeitic stem cell | blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow, T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
stem vowel thematic vowel | a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |
celtuce stem lettuce Lactuca sativa asparagina | lettuce valued especially for its edible stems |
bluestem blue stem Andropogon furcatus Andropogon gerardii | tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States |
common ginger Canton ginger stem ginger Zingiber officinale | tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root, source of gingerroot and powdered ginger |
onion stem Lepiota cepaestipes | a white agaric that tends to cluster and has a club-shaped base |
stalk stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
black-stem spleenwort black-stemmed spleenwort little ebony spleenwort | fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil |
mitral valve prolapse | cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart |
mitral stenosis mitral valve stenosis | obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) |
stem blight | a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants |
little potato rosette russet scab stem canker | rhizoctinia disease of potatoes |
stem | remove the stem from, for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed |