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单词 conduit-pipe
释义

conduit-pipen.

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s condite-, cundite-, Middle English–1600s conduct-pipe.
Etymology: < conduit n. + pipe n.1
1. A pipe for the conveyance of water or other liquid; a conduit of tubular form.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe
pipeOE
canal?a1425
conduit-pipec1425
tube1658
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 747 By archis strong his cours for to reflecte Þoruȝ condut pipis, large & wyde.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 107 The water was brought to this place by conduct pipes.
1599 J. Davies in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 88 Water in conduit-pipes can rise no higher Than the well-head.
1728 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 79 To let out the Air from the Conduct Pipes, which obstructs the Running of the Water.
1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 190 Of Conduit Pipes and Open Canals.
1847 L. Hunt Jar of Honey ix. 120 Grounds whose veins were conduit-pipes to many a crystal spring.
2. figurative. A channel or medium of conveyance.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > conveying by a channel or medium > channel or medium of conveyance
carriera1398
conduct1423
conveyance1548
conduita1569
conduit-pipe1581
convoy1599
conveyor1621
conveyancer1624
convoyance1682
conductor1796
efferent1876
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 481 The old fountaines, and conduyt pypes of the Gospell of grace stoppt up by the popish Philistines.
a1628 J. Preston Serm. before His Majestie (1630) 25 The instruments and conduit-pipes of so great blessings.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 67 In respect of debts which he incurred, the son did not act as conduit-pipe, but was liable in his own person.
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