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Venturi

//vɛnˈtjʊəɹi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Italian.
Noun
  1. 1
    A venturi tube.
  2. 2
    a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) wordnet
  3. 3
    The throat of a carburetor.
  4. 4
    A constriction in the flow of air to lungs. rare

    "He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading."

Etymology

Etymology 1

After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.

Etymology 2

Plural or patronymic of Ventura.

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