overhead-valve engine

[ oh-ver-hed-valv ]

/ ˈoʊ vərˌhɛdˈvælv /

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noun

I-head engine.

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Origin of overhead-valve engine

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby overhead-valve engine

overhead camshaft, overhead door, overhead projector, overhead railway, overheads, overhead-valve engine, overhear, overheat, overhit, overhung, Overijssel

How to use overhead-valve engine in a sentence

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The jet engine instantly brought two advances over propellers: it doubled the speed and it was far more reliable.
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An F-35 was destroyed on takeoff earlier in the year when a design flaw in its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine sparked a fire.
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Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.
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Such and such a time, such and such a day, then trouble with the valve.
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It was only the engine drawing the train of cars up to the station to take the passengers away.
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“Mon pauvre petit, you are hungry,” said Aristide, carrying it to the car racked by the clattering engine.
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Adjoining the engine-house on the other side, is the stable, where five splendid horses are kept.
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Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.
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The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.
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British Dictionary definitions for overhead-valve engine

overhead-valve engine

noun

a type of internal-combustion engine in which the inlet and exhaust valves are in the cylinder head above the pistonsUS name: valve-in-head engine Compare side-valve engine

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