单词 | conduit-pipe |
释义 | conduit-pipen. 1. A pipe for the conveyance of water or other liquid; a conduit of tubular form. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1425 |
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