Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Valve
Valve noun - Device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone.
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Synonyms for Valve
Nearby Word: valvular
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He also helped to invent the Wade-Dahl-Till valve: a medical device used to treat hydrocephalus ("water in the brain") by draining the excess fluid out of the skull.
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In Episode Two they are destroyed using the just-introduced Magnussonn device, apparently for no other reason than so that Valve could claim to have one new weapon in the game.
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He has no problems with using them as impromptu tools, however (such as when he took a revolver, removed the bullet cylinder part and used the frame as a improvised wrench to close a needed valve), or as some sort of Rube Goldbergian "something to make a loud noise to distract the bad guys" device.
Source: Doesn't Like Guns
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