Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a valve or valves, in any sense; valvate; valvular.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a valve or valves; valvate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having valves.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of brass instruments) having valves

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Examples

  • There was air there, valved in under pressure so she could not flow through the tube; if she tried it, she would merely encounter an otherwise sealed tank.

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  • # I like to use the old electric fryingpan of the solid variety, with valved pyrex lid because it slow cooks well.

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  • A nagging thought, yes; but the cultural tremors seem much less than those that occurred when, say, European performance practice experienced the technological shift to valved brass instruments — the boom boxes of their times.

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  • # I like to use the old electric fryingpan of the solid variety, with valved pyrex lid because it slow cooks well.

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  • The skinsuit obviuosly cost considerably more than the schrader-valved steed he is astride.

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  • A nagging thought, yes; but the cultural tremors seem much less than those that occurred when, say, European performance practice experienced the technological shift to valved brass instruments — the boom boxes of their times.

    Aboriginal Painting, Gift and Cost 2009

  • I put in a valved one and give the impatiens a good soaking once a week.

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  • I put in a valved one and give the impatiens a good soaking once a week.

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  • I put in a valved one and give the impatiens a good soaking once a week.

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  • I put in a valved one and give the impatiens a good soaking once a week.

    Fountain sludge 2006

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