venturi
/vɛnˈtjʊəɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A venturi tube.
noun
The throat of a carburetor, which is shaped so as to produce depressurization and swirling of the incoming air, allowing drops of fuel to be atomized (aerosolized).
noun
A constriction in the flow of air to lungs.
Example Sentences
- "He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading."