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Meanings of escape cock in English

Portuguese
válvula de escape
Catalan
vàlvula de seguretat

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.

        válvula de escape
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        Examples for "escape"
        Examples for "escape"
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        Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe.
        The Guardian
        2
        How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape?
        Mockingjay
        3
        Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote.
        The Guardian
        4
        They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one.
        The new yorker
        5
        Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order.
        Dhampir
        1
        We had a safety valve and that may have affected our display.
        The Irish Times
        2
        These disks are a safety valve, deep down in Henrik's private underworld.
        Kennedy's brain
        3
        And I would put that into the category of the safety valve.
        The new yorker
        4
        It was a safety valve that allowed the most desperate to go.
        Reuters
        5
        Eph and Fet backed away from the blue-lit closet, their safety valve.
        The strain
        1
        The design of the atmospheric relief valve received special consideration.
        The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment
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        That left the reactor dependent on another backup system, a special sort of relief valve.
        Outliers: the story of success
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        But, as luck would have it, the relief valve wasn't working properly that day either.
        Outliers: the story of success
        4
        In theaters before electricity, Mr. Whittier would say, the ghost light acted as a pressure- relief valve.
        Haunted: a novel of stories
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        Thanks for being such a nice pressure- relief valve.
        Masters of Space
        1
        The pressure escape valve is often attached to this hydraulic valve body.
        Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting / Electric, Forge and Thermit ...
        2
        As money laundering becomes harder to hide, Putin is losing his escape valve.
        Reuters
        3
        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...
        4
        For many, this is the escape valve party for a ragtag army of none-of-the-aboves.
        The Guardian
        5
        This time there was no escape valve up through the weak, nonsymmetrical, semisolid layers.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        Usage of escape cock in English
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        None who enter escape ...' Cocking her head she raised a hand to forestall any comment.
        Return of the Crimson Guard
        Translations for escape cock