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Valve under the hood
Answer for the clue "Valve under the hood ", 6 letters:
intake
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Word definitions for intake in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intake \In"take`\, n. The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to outlet . the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1800, "place where water is taken into a channel or pipe," from verbal phrase, from in (adv.) + take (v.). Meaning "act of taking in" (food, breath, etc.) is first attested 1808.
Usage examples of intake.
Conal now sat on its sculpted door, and absently traced a slender finger along an air intake, glowering at the envelope.
A quicker method, Lacy told Bucher, would be to open the cooling water intakes and outlets in the main engine room and cut a hole into the auxiliary engine room from the main engine room.
I have seen Frenchmen fight both in open field, in the intaking and the defending of towns or castlewicks, in escalados, camisades, night forays, bushments, sallies, outfalls, and knightly spear-runnings.
He and Sir Nigel sat late in high converse as to bushments, outfalls, and the intaking of cities, with many tales of warlike men and valiant deeds.
At the top of the cloud, when the flier was little more than a red dot, it executed a wide loop and then, to the accompaniment of a citywide intake of breath, it banked to the left and fell like a stone.
There are bruises on his neck and arms from the pressure of the restraining straps during his high-g maneuvers, the result of a 200-mile drag race with the Nebraska heat that ended with one chopper forced down in a cornfield and a coleopter that seems to have sucked a bale of aluminum chaff into an intake and had to stagger home on one engine.
Father and son looked round and Walter Deyre drew in his breath with a little intake of pain.
Intake forms and go through Orientation, and Gately goes over the House rules with her and gives her a copy of the Ennet House Survival Guide, which some resident years gone had written for Pat.
I started to increase my intake of foods containing folic acid as soon as we decided to try for a family.
We spent the rest of the weekend carefully monitoring her folic acid intake.
Within hours of increasing your fluid intake, your cells will be hydrated and performing at increased levels.
Even from a distance of several yards Killian could hear her intake of breath, and then, like one in a trance, she dropped her parcel and approached the dark stallion, her hand lifted wordlessly.
He shook his head, furious with himself, and strode onward, donning his dark glasses as he reached the big open platform between the tubes where dead cultures were slued for drying, lysis, and recycling to the organic intake pipe.
Two of these neurotransmitters are neuropeptide Y, a chemical that is active in turning our carbohydrate cravings off and on, and galanin, which is associated with fat intake.
There were control-cabin windows at the bow, scramjet intakes below the rear edge.