Valve

/ˈvælv/

Synonyms for "valve" (78 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (16)

accelerator aerophone auto automobileball cockball valvebell bung bungholecheck valvecock corkdischarge tube

Noun(3 words)

Strong matches (23)

double reeddrain cockdraw cockembouchure faucet gate generator horn hydrant key lid lip mouthpiece mufflerneedle valveparts peg petcock pin

Noun(4 words)

faucetfreshwater musselheart valveirrigation apparatus

Related words (39)

pipe plugradio tubereedsea cockslide spigot spike spile spill stop stopcock stopgap stopper stopple tap tooter tubevacuum tubevalue

Show 4 more words

valvula valvule windwind instrument

Noun(15 words)

piston valvepressure regulatorrestrictorrotary valvesluice sphincter spigot spigots stopcock stopcocks tap taps throttle tubes turncock

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

13 entries

airflow controlanatomical structurebodily structurebody structurecardiovascular structurecomplex body partcontrol controller deviceflow control devicemechanical deviceshell structure

More specific

12 entries

aortic valveball valvebutterfly valvecheck valveglobe valvehorn valvemitral valvepulmonary valvetricuspid valvetrombone valvetrumpet valvetuba valve

Collocations

6 entries

ball valvecheck valvepressure relief valvevalve handlevalve stemwater valve

Inflections

1 entries

valves

Derivations

3 entries

valveless valvotomy valvular

Translations

101 translations across 68 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

ventiel noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Albanian

1 entries

kllapë noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Arabic

3 entries

بلف noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
صِمَام noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
محبس noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Armenian

2 entries

կափույր noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
փական noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Asturian

1 entries

válvula noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

klapan noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
valf noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Basque

1 entries

balbula noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Belarusian

3 entries

ве́нтыль noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
вэнты́ль noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
кла́пан noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Bengali

1 entries

কপাটক noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Bulgarian

2 entries

венти́л noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
кла́пан noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Catalan

1 entries

vàlvula noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Central Melanau

1 entries

nganga noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

閥門 /阀门 noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

閥門 /阀门 noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Czech

1 entries

ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Danish

1 entries

ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Dutch

1 entries

ventiel noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Esperanto

1 entries

valvo noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Estonian

2 entries

klapp noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
ventiil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Finnish

1 entries

venttiili noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

French

2 entries

clapet noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
soupape noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Galician

1 entries

válvula noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Georgian

1 entries

სარქველი noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

German

4 entries

Armatur noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
Hahn noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
Schieber noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
Ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Greek

1 entries

βαλβίδα noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Hebrew

1 entries

שַׁסְתּוֹם noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Hindi

1 entries

वाल्व noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Hungarian

1 entries

szelep noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Icelandic

1 entries

ventill noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Ido

1 entries

valvo noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Indonesian

4 entries

injap noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
katup noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
klep noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
pentil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Iranian Persian

1 entries

شیر noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Italian

1 entries

valvola noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Japanese

1 entries

バルブ noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Kazakh

1 entries

клапан noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Khmer

1 entries

សន្ទះបិទបើក noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Korean

1 entries

밸브 noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

клапан noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Latvian

2 entries

krāns noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
ventilis noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Lithuanian

1 entries

sklendė noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Macedonian

1 entries

вентил noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Malay

1 entries

injap noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Norman

1 entries

cliavette noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

derîçe noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Polish

2 entries

wentyl noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
zawór noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Portuguese

1 entries

válvula noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Romanian

1 entries

ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Russian

4 entries

ве́нтиль noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
задви́жка noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
засло́нка noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
кла́пан noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

cìochag noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
pìob-chòmhla noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

vèntīl noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
вѐнтӣл noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Sinhalese

1 entries

වෑල්ව noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Slovak

2 entries

chlopňa noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Slovene

1 entries

ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Spanish

3 entries

grifón noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
llave noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
válvula noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Swahili

1 entries

valvu noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Swedish

1 entries

ventil noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Tagalog

2 entries

balbula noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
tudlang noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Telugu

1 entries

కవాటము noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Thai

2 entries

ลิ้น noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
วาล์ว noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Tibetan

2 entries

གཅུས་འགོག noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
ཕུ་འགྲོ noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Turkish

4 entries

sibop noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
supap noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
valf noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
vana noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Ukrainian

2 entries

ве́нтиль noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)
кла́пан noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Urdu

1 entries

والْو noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Uzbek

1 entries

klapan noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Vietnamese

1 entries

van noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Welsh

1 entries

falf noun (device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid)

Sample sentences

18 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The exit flow rate is proportional to the pressure difference around the exit valve.

Source: tatoeba (781626)

In an unusual move, this school's big band uses slide trumpets and valve trombones exclusively.

Source: tatoeba (814495)

He was born with an incompletely formed heart valve.

Source: tatoeba (831889)

Try to check the flow of water by turning the valve.

Source: tatoeba (965235)

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