Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
Cold-shut
(a.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded |
Cold-shut
(n.) An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding. |
Double-beat valve
() See under Valve. |
D valve
() A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Gate
(n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc. |
Gate
(n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier |
Gate
(n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc. |
Gate
(n.) The places which command the entrances or access |
Gate
(n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. |
Gate
(n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold |
Gate
(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening |
Gate
(v. t.) To supply with a gate. |
Gate
(v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual. |
Gate
(n.) A way |
Gate
(n.) Manner |
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. |
Lych gate
() See under Lich. |
Sea-gate
(n.) Alt. of Sea-gait |
Shut
(imp. & p. p.) of Shut |
Shut
(v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress |
Shut
(v. t.) To forbid entrance into |
Shut
(v. t.) To preclude |
Shut
(v. t.) To fold together |
Shut
(v. i.) To close itself |
Shut
(a.) Closed or fastened |
Shut
(a.) Rid |
Shut
(a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed |
Shut
(a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are. |
Shut
(n.) The act or time of shutting |
Shut
(n.) A door or cover |
Shut
(n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. |
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. |
Water gate
() A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated. |
| 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 |
AND circuit
AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
| arrival gate | gate where passengers disembark |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
| 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 |
| departure gate | gate where passengers embark |
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 |
| gate | a movable barrier in a fence or wall |
| gate logic gate | a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs |
| gate | passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark |
| Golden Gate Bridge | a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate |
| head gate | a gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
| intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
| lock-gate | a gate that can be locked |
NAND circuit
NAND gate | a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate |
OR circuit
OR gate | a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire |
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 |
| 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 |
starting gate
starting stall | a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course |
| tail gate | a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end |
threshold element
threshold gate | a logic element that performs a threshold operation |
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 |
wicket wicket door
wicket gate | small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) |
X-OR circuit
XOR circuit
XOR gate | gate for exclusive OR, a circuit in a computer that fires only if only one of its inputs fire |
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 |
| 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 |
Dipylon gate
Dipylon | a gateway to the west of ancient Athens near which a distinctive style of pottery has been found |
| Golden Gate | a strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean, discovered in by Sir Francis Drake |
invalid
shut-in | someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury |
prince's-feather princess feather
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
prince's-plume Polygonum orientale | annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers, southeastern Asia and Australia, naturalized in North America |
| gate | total admission receipts at a sports event |