Usage of "safety valve"

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A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level.

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Examples for "escape"

Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe. 
 The Guardian 

How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape? 
 Mockingjay 

Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote. 
 The Guardian 

They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one. 
 The new yorker 

Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order. 
 Dhampir 

The design of the atmospheric relief valve received special consideration. 
 The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment 

That left the reactor dependent on another backup system, a special sort of relief valve. 
 Outliers: the story of success 

But, as luck would have it, the relief valve wasn't working properly that day either. 
 Outliers: the story of success 

In theaters before electricity, Mr. Whittier would say, the ghost light acted as a pressure- relief valve. 
 Haunted: a novel of stories 

Thanks for being such a nice pressure- relief valve. 
 Masters of Space 

The pressure escape valve is often attached to this hydraulic valve body. 
 Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting / Electric, Forge and Thermit ... 

As money laundering becomes harder to hide, Putin is losing his escape valve. 
 Reuters 

If I don't it's not the fault of the escape valve. 
 Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in... 

For many, this is the escape valve party for a ragtag army of none-of-the-aboves. 
 The Guardian 

This time there was no escape valve up through the weak, nonsymmetrical, semisolid layers. 
 The Neutronium Alchemist 

None who enter escape ...' Cocking her head she raised a hand to forestall any comment. 
 Return of the Crimson Guard 

Ús de safety valve en anglès

We had a safety valve and that may have affected our display. 
 The Irish Times 

These disks are a safety valve, deep down in Henrik's private underworld. 
 Kennedy's brain 

And I would put that into the category of the safety valve. 
 The new yorker 

It was a safety valve that allowed the most desperate to go. 
 Reuters 

Eph and Fet backed away from the blue-lit closet, their safety valve. 
 The strain 

A safety valve, a pressure indicator, and a blow-off complete the outfit. 
 Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful ... 

What is the purpose of a safety valve on a locomotive boiler? 
 The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E... 

What should be done if a safety valve spring or stud breaks? 
 The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E... 

This may be an important safety valve for the exam system in England. 
 The Guardian 

The steam escaping through the safety valve is passed through the same apparatus. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 

If such a boiler is used, a small safety valve should be attached. 
 The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do 

The sound was exactly that of steam roaring from a locomotive's safety valve. 
 The Leopard Woman 

Don't you take the monkey-wrench off the safety valve like that. 
 Vandover and the Brute 

So you'll have to be my safety valve, confidant and confessor. 
 Patchwork: A Story of 'The Plain People' 

OPINION:Irish emigrants serve the body politic as a safety valve. 
 The Irish Times 

The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve. 
 Wired 

Translations for safety valve

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Significats de safety valve en anglès