valve
34 synonyms found
- aerophone
- ball cock
- ball valve
- bell
- bung
- bunghole
- check valve
- cork
- discharge tube
- double reed
- drain cock
- draw cock
- embouchure
- gate
- horn
- mouthpiece
- needle valve
- peg
- petcock
- pipe
- radio tube
- reed
- sea cock
- spike
- spile
- spill
- stopcock
- stopgap
- tap
- tooter
- vacuum tube
- valvula
- valvule
- wind instrument
Definition
(n) :
a device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe; a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit
(v) :
to control (flow) by means of a valve