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Valve

verb

To control (flow) by means of a valve.

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Investigators say it's still not clear what caused a toxic chemical to leak from a valve at a suburban Houston plant, killing four workers and injuring a fifth.

Down the road from where I grew up, John Ambrose Fleming in 1904 invented the diode valve – and thus paved the way for the electronic devices we know today.

That split-second follicular tic is a safety valve, and one of the secrets to Federer's success – of which there was more when Berdych struggled to compete.

I had a faulty valve, I've got a brand new one now".

There is a safety valve which tells your brain, 'Don't dwell on that!' You cannot afford to dwell on it".

He says he is always surprised by health warnings in countries outside Finland, as in his opinion saunas are safe for most people except those with unstable angina, a recent heart attack or a narrowing of their aortic valve – or if you feel unwell.

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The fear is that players of his generation can become infantilised, as mechanically dependant as infuriatingly over-dressed modern cars, with their electronically variable valve-timing, their six months in the workshop to recalibrate the flux capacitor that powers the wing mirror hinge.

Last year, amid the global economic downturn, remittances fell by around 30%.The exodus of mostly young and enterprising Tajiks provides Mr Rakhmon with a political safety-valve, and helps shield his regime from political unrest.

Trumpet players these days are likely to finish music college able to play both the modern instrument and the (valve-less) natural trumpet, for which Baroque trumpet parts were written.

The league has been a democratic safety-valve for northern protest.

For all the anger, emigration provides an economic and social safety-valve.

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