Meaning

1 senses

  1. To control (flow) by means of a valve.

Examples

32 sentences

  1. The main valve is turned off.

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  2. Why did you replace the valve?

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  3. Why are you replacing the valve?

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  4. I can play a valve trombone but not a slide trombone.

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  5. The valve is open.

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Origin

From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.

From Middle English valve, from Latin valva (“double door, valve”). Doublet of valva.

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Forms

valves, valving, valved, valved
Base formvalve · to valve
3rd person singularvalves
Present participlevalving
Past simplevalved
Past participlevalved

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyvalve
he, she, itvalves

Past simpleLesson

all personsvalved

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave valved
he, she, ithas valved

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill valve

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
valuationvalueA2valuelessvampirevanB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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