Blow valve () See Snifting valve. |
Choke (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe |
Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage |
Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc. |
Choke (v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. |
Choke (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. |
Choke (v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped |
Choke (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking |
Choke (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation. |
Choke (n.) The tied end of a cartridge. |
Choke (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc. |
Choke damp () See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. |
Choke-full (a.) Full to the brim |
Choke pear () A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth. |
Choke pear () A sarcasm by which one is put to silence |
Choke-strap (n.) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place. |
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. |
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. |
chokehold choke hold | a restraining hold, someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind, he grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and jewelry, and then fled |
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 |
automatic choke | a choke that automatically controls the flow of air to the carburetor |
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 |
choke | a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine |
choke choke coil choking coil | a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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) |
choke | breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion, She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband |
gag choke | cause to retch or choke |
gag choke strangle suffocate | struggle for breath, have insufficient oxygen intake, he swallowed a fishbone and gagged |
choke strangle | constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing |
choke throttle | reduce the air supply, choke a carburetor |
die decease perish go exit pass away expire pass b kick the bucket cash in one's chips buy the farm conk give-up the ghost drop dead pop off choke croak snuff it | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life, She died from cancer, The children perished in the fire, The patient went peacefully, The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of |
suffocate choke | suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of, His job suffocated him |
suffocate choke | become stultified, suppressed, or stifled, He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village |
choke off choke down choke back | suppress, He choked down his rage |
suffocate stifle asphyxiate choke | impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of, The foul air was slowly suffocating the children |
clog choke off clog up back up congest choke foul | become or cause to become obstructed, The leaves clog our drains in the Fall, The water pipe is backed up |
stuff lug choke up block | obstruct, My nose is all stuffed, Her arteries are blocked |
choke gag fret | be too tight, rub or press, This neckband is choking the cat |
choke scrag | wring the neck of, The man choked his opponent |
choke | check or slow down the action or effect of, She choked her anger |