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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
Synonyms
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
2
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
5
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...
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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