pipe.
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- ›a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
- ›a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
- ›Music. a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument.a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe.one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced.a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum.
- ›Nautical. boatswain's pipe. the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
- ›the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
- ›pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, especially as used in singing.
- ›Usually pipes. Music.bagpipe. a set of flutes, as a panpipe. Informal.a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, especially a respiratory passage: to complain of congested pipes.
- ›any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
- ›Mining. a cylindrical vein or body of ore. a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
- Metallurgy. a depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold.
Phrases
- pipe down
- pipe dream
- pipe up
- in the pipeline
- lead-pipe cinch
- put that in your pipe
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Carson also warned that “there’s a fortune” to be made off building the parallel pipe.
The Water Authority estimates the pipe could save ratepayers other billions – eventually.
The Water Authority studied the pipe dream at least five times in the past.
While solids and liquids descend the network, sewer gases — often detectable by their odor — sometimes rise through pipes in the absence of sufficient water, said Morawska, who wasn’t part of the research team.
This weekend, NBC 7 reported that city workers did in fact move into the building before the sewage system had been repaired and the drinking water had been flushed — meaning there was brown water coming out of the pipes.
I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
And then I said, ‘Well, chief, when the admiral comes aboard, the first mate has to pipe him in.’
It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.
There was poop humor—literally—when Valerie's house becomes flooded with fecal matter after a pipe bursts.
All it needs is one more “pipe” to select and transmit the crucial information.