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<A NAME="valueengineer">
<B>value engineer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is trained or skilled in value engineering. </DL>
<A NAME="valueengineering">
<B>value engineering,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the analysis as of a product or process to determine the least expensive method of design and production. <DD><B> 2. </B>the modification as of a product or process as a result of such an analysis. </DL>
<A NAME="valuejudgment">
<B>value judgment,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an assessment of someone or something in terms of personal values, such as whether he or it is good or bad, worthwhile or troublesome; a subjective judgment or appraisal. <BR> <I>Ex. Stories about celebrities are only made meaningful through our superimposition of a ... psychological value judgment which relates the subject's adventures to cause-and-effect experience as the reader himself has observed it (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="valueless">
<B>valueless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without value; worthless. <BR> <I>Ex. Many quick judgments are valueless.</I> noun <B>valuelessness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="values">
<B>values, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>value.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="valuta">
<B>valuta, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fixed value of a nation's currency in terms of a foreign currency. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fixed rate of exchange between a nation's currency and a specified foreign currency. </DL>
<A NAME="valval">
<B>valval, </B>adjective. <B>=valvular.</B></DL>
<A NAME="valvar">
<B>valvar, </B>adjective. <B>=valvular.</B></DL>
<A NAME="valvate">
<B>valvate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>furnished with, or opening by, a valve or valves. <DD><B> 2. </B>serving as or resembling a valve. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Botany.) <DD><B> a. </B>meeting without overlapping, as the parts of certain buds do. <DD><B> b. </B>united by the margins only, and opening as if by valves, as the capsules of regularly dehiscent fruits and certain anthers do. <DD><B> c. </B>composed of or characterized by such an arrangement of parts. </DL>
<A NAME="valve">
<B>valve, </B>noun, verb, <B>valved,</B> <B>valving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a movable part that controls the flow of a liquid or gas through a pipe or out of an enclosed space by opening or closing the passage. A faucet contains a valve. <DD><B> 2. </B>a part of the body that works like a valve. The valves of the heart are membranes that control the flow of blood into and out of the heart. <DD><B> 3. </B>one of the two or more parts of hinged shells like those of oysters and clams, or the whole shell when it is in one piece, as in snails. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Botany.) <DD><B> a. </B>one of the halves or sections formed when a seed vessel bursts open. <DD><B> b. </B>a section that opens like a lid when an anther opens. <DD><B> c. </B>either of the halves of the shell of a diatom. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Electronics.) <DD><B> a. </B>any device permitting the passage of electric current in one direction only. <DD><B> b. </B>(Especially British.) a vacuum tube or electron tube. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Music.) a device in certain brass wind instruments, such as trumpets and French horns, connected with subsidiary loops of tubing, for changing the pitch of a tone by changing the length and direction of the column of air. There are two types of valves, the piston and the rotary cylinder. <DD><B> 7. </B>a door or gate controlling the flow of water in a sluice. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Archaic.) either one of the halves or leaves of a double or folding door. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to control the flow of (a liquid, gas, or stream of electrons) by a valve. <DD><B> 2. </B>to discharge (gas) from a balloon by opening a valve. <DD><B> 3. </B>to furnish with a valve or valves. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make use of a valve or valves. <DD><B> 2. </B>to open a valve of a balloon in order to descend. adj. <B>valvelike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="valvegear">
<B>valvegear, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mechanism which regulates the motions of the valves of an engine or other mechanical apparatus. </DL>
<A NAME="valveinheadengine">
<B>valve-in-head engine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an internal-combustion engine that has both intake and exhaust valves in the cylinder head. </DL>
<A NAME="valveless">
<B>valveless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no valve. </DL>
<A NAME="valvelet">
<B>valvelet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small valve; valvule. </DL>
<A NAME="valveport">
<B>valve port,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the opening uncovered by a valve in the cylinder block or head of a gasoline engine. </DL>
<A NAME="valverod">
<B>valve rod,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the rod or spindle by which a valve is operated; the stem of a valve. </DL>
<A NAME="valveseat">
<B>valve seat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the rim of the valve port on which the valve rests when closed, made of specially hardened steel inserts. </DL>
<A NAME="valvula">
<B>valvula, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) a valve or valvule. </DL>
<A NAME="valvular">
<B>valvular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of, having to do with, or affecting a valve or valves, especially the valves of the heart. <DD><B> 2. </B>having the form or function of a valve. <DD><B> 3. </B>having or working by valves. </DL>
<A NAME="valvule">
<B>valvule, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small valve; valvelet. </DL>
<A NAME="valvulitis">
<B>valvulitis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> inflammation of a valve, especially of a valve of the heart. </DL>
<A NAME="vambrace">
<B>vambrace, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> defensive armor for the forearm. </DL>
<A NAME="vamoose">
<B>vamoose, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-moosed,</B> <B>-moosing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) to go away quickly. </DL>
<B>vamp</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the upper front part of a shoe or boot. <DD><B> 2. </B>a piece or patch added to an old thing to make it look new. <DD><B> 3. </B>anything that is patched up or restored by a vamp; patchwork. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Music.) a simple accompaniment, usually an improvised series of chords. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to furnish (footwear) with a vamp; repair (a shoe or boot) with a new vamp. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make (an old thing) look new; patch up. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to put together (a book or composition) out of old materials; compile; compose. <DD><B> 4. </B>to improvise in a simple or crude way to (an accompaniment, song, or melody). <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Music.) to improvise an accompaniment. <BR> <I>Ex. I got a banjo, you know, and I vamp a bit (H. G. Wells).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>vamp up,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to make (something old) appear new. </I> <I>Ex. The women of the town [were] vamped up for show with paint, patches, plumpers, and every external ornament that art can administer (Samuel Johnson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to make up to deceive. <BR> <I>Ex. to vamp up a worthless accusation.</I> noun <B>vamper.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vamp">
<B>vamp</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> an unscrupulous flirt; adventuress. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to flirt with (a man) for the purpose of extortion. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to flirt with a man in order to extort from him. noun <B>vamper.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vamphorn">
<B>vamp horn,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several, variously shaped, valveless horns used in churches in the 1700's and 1800's to amplify the singing or speaking voice. </DL>
<A NAME="vampiness">
<B>vampiness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a vampish quality or condition. <BR> <I>Ex. The varnished vampiness of Greta Garbo (Sunday Express).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="vampire">
<B>vampire, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a corpse supposed to come to life at night and leave its grave and suck the blood of people while they sleep. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>a person who preys ruthlessly on others. <DD><B> b. </B>a woman who flirts with men to get money or to please her vanity. <DD><B> c. </B>an actress known for playing the part of a beautiful woman who is ruthless and vain. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=vampire bat.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>a trap door with two leaves closed by a string and used for sudden disappearances from the stage. </DL>
<A NAME="vampirebat">
<B>vampire bat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of several groups of bats of South and Central America that pierce the skin of animals with their sharp teeth and drink the blood as it flows. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several large bats of South and Central America, incorrectly supposed to drink blood. <DD><B> 3a. </B>any one of a group of large, tailless bats of tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=false vampire.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="vampiric">
<B>vampiric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the character of a vampire; having to do with vampires or the belief in them. </DL>
<B>vampirism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a superstitious belief in the existence of vampires. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act or practice of bloodsucking. <DD><B> 3. </B>the practice of extortion or preying on others. </DL>
<A NAME="vampish">
<B>vampish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> suggestive or characteristic of a vamp or unscrupulous flirt. <BR> <I>Ex. vampish wiles.</I> noun <B>vampishness.</B> </DL>
