| 单词 | sleeve-valve |
| 释义 | > as lemmassleeve-valve sleeve-valve n. a kind of valve, employed in certain types of internal-combustion engine, consisting of a hollow cylindrical sleeve fitting closely inside the engine cylinder and moving with the piston in such a way that inlet and exhaust ports are opened and closed at appropriate times; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > valves side valve1886 cutout1905 sleeve-valve1910 overhead valve1921 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > specific parts > equipped with sleeve-valve1910 supercharged1917 turbosupercharged1944 turbocharged1961 1910 Engineering 18 Nov. 688/3 Both Messrs. Panhard and Levassor..and Messrs. Milnes Daimler, Limited..showed examples of the Knight sleeve-valve engine. 1911 Engineering 3 Nov. 590/2 The usual tappet-valves are replaced by a single sleeve-valve. 1912 Motor Man. (ed. 14) 69 The sliding sleeve valves. 1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels x The latest mode in such things as sleeve-valves and detachable rims. 1927 C. Lenanton Mrs. Newdigate's Window i. ii ‘Fourteen years old, and almost as silent as ever.’.. ‘Ah! a sleeve-valve engine every time.’ 1927 Daily Express 16 Mar. 7 A six-cylinder Silent-Knight Sleeve-valve engine. 1928 Motor Man. (ed. 27) 217 Sleeve valve.—A valve in the form of a cylinder which has a sliding movement instead of the up-and-down movement of the poppet valve. c1930 Daimler Transmission Syst. 3 The introduction of the Daimler silent sleeve-valve engine in 1908, and its remarkable development in 1925 by the successful substitution of light steel sleeves for the previous cast-iron ones. 1958 Gibson & Tuteur Control System Components xi. 424 A Vickers two-land sleeve valve. 1982 P. Dickinson Last House-party iv. 49 ‘This car makes a remarkable amount of smoke.’ ‘That's the trouble with these sleeve-valve engines.’ < as lemmas |
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