noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
safety valve
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Being able to express emotion is a healthy safety valve for the relationship.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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It had earlier been found that the total benefit to the employer of the new valve from low 5.
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The already type-tested new design of valves was immediately approved and production went ahead.
old
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Peavey Classic 50 watt 2x12, old valve model, £400.
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Secrecy sang in the static air, like an old valve radio with the volume turned down.
■ NOUN
ball
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Are the joints, ball valves and pipes newish?
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Lift up the ball valve arm as high as it will go, and tie up to prevent the cistern refilling.
control
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Unscrewing the control valve opens the cap and allows the contents to flow out.
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A simple air pressure control valve as used in aircraft is shown in Figure 7.10 to illustrate the procedure.
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When you open the control valve the liquid is released into the stove burner as a gas.
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Additional components comprise an extra electro-hydraulic control valve to actuate fourth-to-fifth and fifth-to-fourth shifts and the extra gear set itself.
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The stoves either fit directly on to the cartridge or are fed through a short hose with a control valve .
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The pumps are available together with a complete range of new steam and air fittings and control valves .
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Systems vary but the essentials are a detergent reservoir or reservoirs, solution pumps, dosing injector and control valves .
gear
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There are sealed for life bearings all over the valve gear and coupling rods.
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The main gasoline engine can be turned and its valve gear operates.
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I have been told it could be an oil feed problem to the valve gear , but the pipe is clear.
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In its simplest form, with piston-covered transfer and exhaust ports, it also does away with a four-stroke's valve gear .
heart
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Most of the heart valves collected will be transplanted in to local patients, many of them children.
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After visiting a heart specialist, Tom discovered she had heart valve damage, court papers said.
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The number to ring is Remember ... human heart valve donation ... something so simple ... could mean so much.
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Alarming numbers of Fen-Phen users, they found, were turning up with damaged heart valves .
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Training will be provided for you to operate the heart / lung bypass machine and prepare heart valves for surgical implantation.
relief
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An hour later there was a build-up of pressure when a relief valve failed to open automatically.
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Plumbing it in on most sprayers involves running a supply pipe from between the pressure relief valve and tank return line.
safety
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It is a safety valve , you might say a brothel of the mind.
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Fortuitously, the advancing Union forces operated as a safety valve .
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Do these eruptions act as a safety valve or will they lead to a cataclysm?
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Gradually the voluntary churches thus came to be safety valves for society, means of draining potentially dangerous conflict into harmless channels.
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So far the devaluation has acted as a safety valve for the most immediate pressures.
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Then an interesting phenomenon takes place: they become a safety valve .
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Sometimes, a safety valve may be fitted into the boiler flow pipe; a draincock is always fitted in the return.
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Investment funds and other big investors also use them as safety valves .
seat
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If you use unleaded in an engine not designed for it then premature failure of the exhaust valve seats will result.
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Without the presence of a lead compound, an engine's valve seats go unprotected.
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The only effective remedy is to install hardened valve seats or a replacement cylinder head, both expensive options.
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A loose valve seat usually falls out totally and damages the engine very quickly.
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It will cost more to repair the burnt valve seats and valves than the saving on fuel.
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Also have the inlet valve seats recut at the same time.
■ VERB
close
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Once the piston is at the bottom of the cylinder, valve 3 is closed and valve 2 opened.
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As soon as he could breathe comfortably, he closed the valve .
fit
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His mask fitted well, the valve worked properly, the large cylinder in use was two-thirds full.
open
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The operating control is actually opening the water valve and allowing hot water to enter the heater matrix.
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A device resembling a coaster was attached to the bottom of the can and plugged in, which opened the valve .
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If you open the valve on the tyre, air flows out until the pressure inside the tyre equals that outside.
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It is a good idea to open and close valves every so often to make sure that they don't get gummed up.
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Blood flowing forwards opens the valves and flattens the pockets.
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When you open the control valve the liquid is released into the stove burner as a gas.
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I felt the blood draining from my face like somebody had opened a valve in my ankle.
operate
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The dye vats themselves are now controlled by a computer which automatically operates valves , flow direction and controls temperatures.
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Fortuitously, the advancing Union forces operated as a safety valve .
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Under standby conditions, the circuit requires 20mA approximately and while operating the solenoid valve , 200mA.
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So an electrically-\#operated flow valve was developed, in conjunction with Silsoe, to replace the air-actuated system.
turn
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The main gasoline engine can be turned and its valve gear operates.
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Capshaw got up and turned the valve on the gas lamp.
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Then Charlie turned the oxygen valve on to full supply and I was back in the plane again.
use
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I use a two-gang adjustable valve but this never stops stable long enough for the skimmer to work efficiently.
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Investment funds and other big investors also use them as safety valves .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Below this a valve closes, dividing the airflow to the engine so that it runs as two separate three cylinder units.
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His slide work caused many to accuse him of using an easier-to-use valve trombone.
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Sadly today, the making of valves is a dying art.
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Secrecy sang in the static air, like an old valve radio with the volume turned down.
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The engine depends heavily upon turbocharging and on five valves per cylinder for its 150 horsepower.
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The margins of the valves are often wavy, and deeply folded in other species.
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The solution, if that is the case, is to install a pressure-reducing valve on the water system.
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This machine used valves rather than transistors or microchips and required input in the form of punched cards.