| body English | a motion of the body by a player as if to make an object already propelled go in the desired direction |
| English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
English Revolution
Glorious Revolution
Bloodless Revolution | the revolution against James II, there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (-) |
English sparrow
house sparrow
Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
| 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 |
English lady crab
Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
| English toy spaniel | British breed having a long silky coat and rounded head with a short upturned muzzle |
| English foxhound | an English breed slightly larger than the American foxhounds originally used to hunt in packs |
| English setter | an English breed having a plumed tail and a soft silky coat that is chiefly white |
English springer
English springer spaniel | a breed having typically a black-and-white coat |
cocker spaniel
English cocker spaniel
cocker | a small breed with wavy silky hair, originally developed in England |
Old English sheepdog
bobtail | large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail, believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain |
bulldog
English bulldog | a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw, developed originally in England for bull baiting |
English sole
lemon sole Parophrys vitulus | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
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 |
bicycle
bike
wheel cycle | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
bicycle-built-for-two
tandem bicycle
tandem | a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats |
| bicycle chain | a chain that transmits the power from the pedals to the rear wheel of a bicycle |
bicycle clip
trouser clip | a clip worn around a cyclist's ankles that keeps trousers from becoming caught in the bicycle chain |
| bicycle pump | a small pump that fills bicycle tires with air |
| bicycle rack | a rack for parking bicycles |
bicycle seat
saddle | a seat for the rider of a bicycle |
| bicycle wheel | the wheel of a bicycle |
| 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 |
English horn
cor anglais | a doubleeed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch |
English saddle
English cavalry saddle | a saddle having a steel cantle and pommel and no horn |
| 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 |
| ordinary ordinary bicycle | an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel |
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 bicycle
safety bike | bicycle that has two wheels of equal size, pedals are connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear |
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 |
| 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 |