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SNIFTING VALVE

Definition: SNIFTING VALVE

SNIFTING VALVE

1. A small valve opening into the atmosphere from the cylinder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke; -- so called from the noise made by its action.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: SNIFTING VALVE

English words defined with "SNIFTING VALVE": Blow valve. (references)

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Modern Translation: SNIFTING VALVE

Language Translations for "SNIFTING VALVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

klapan që thith. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

изпускателен клапан. (various references)

   

Danish

  

åndeventil (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve), ånderør (breather, breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve, vent). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

snuifklep (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve), verluchter (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve), luchtklep (air-valve), luchtinlaat (air inlet, breather valve, inlet, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

huohotinventtiili (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve). (various references)

   

French

  

reniflard (snift valve, snifter valve). (various references)

   

German

  

Schnarrventil (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve), Schnüffelventil (poppet valve). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανακουφιστική βαλβίδα (ball valve, bleeder, bleeder valve, breather valve, discharge valve, emergency valve, non-return valve, overflow valve, pass valve, pressure control valve, relief valve, safety valve, snifter valve, stop valve, vacuum relief valve, waste gate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szippantó szelep. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftingsnay alvevay

   

Portuguese

  

válvula de vácuo (breather valve, electronic valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve, vacuum tube, vacuum valve), válvula atmosférica (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выдувной клапан (snifting-valve). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

šmrkavi ventil. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

válvula de ventosa (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snyftventil (poppet valve), snarkventil (breather valve, snifter valve, vacuum relief valve). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

buhar makinesi supabı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SNIFTING VALVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-s-t-v-v"

-3 letters: lifesaving, vigilantes.

-4 letters: enlisting, enslaving, entailing, fastening, gainliest, gantlines, genitival, infantile, infesting, inflating, investing, levanting, listening, sniveling, tinseling, vestigial, vigilante.

-5 letters: aliening, alienist, anilines, antigens, antilife, anviling, eanlings, enisling, ensiling, failings, fainting, fatlings, feasting, feinting, feltings, festival, fetialis, fileting, filiates, finagles, finalise, finalist, finniest, flavines, flensing, flinting, gantline, gelatins, genitals, gentians, ginniest, infantes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SNIFTING VALVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4E 49 46 54 49 4E 47      56 41 4C 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001110 01001001 01000110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010110 01000001 01001100 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#78 &#73 &#70 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#86 &#65 &#76 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004E 0049 0046 0054 0049 004E 0047      0056 0041 004C 0056 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534843405443484125635465639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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