Venturi
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A venturi tube.
- 2 a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) wordnet
- 3 The throat of a carburetor.
- 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."
- 1 A surname from Italian.
Example
More examples"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
After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.
Plural or patronymic of Ventura.
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