| 单词 | communication pipe | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascommunication pipe  C2.   With the sense ‘constituting or providing a physical means of communication; linking, connecting’, as  communication pipe,  communication trough, etc. See also communication trench n. at  Compounds 3a. ΚΠ 1687    Philos. Trans. 1686–7 		(Royal Soc.)	 16 265  				The bigness assigned for the communication-Pipes will..prove more than sufficient to this effect. ?1761    J. Grundy et al.  Rep. Present State River Witham 21  				To erecting a New Sluice at Anthony's Gowt and making the communication Cut. 1769    W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Fire-ship  				Two troughs of communication from each door of the fire-room to the sally-ports, must be laid..: also a cross-piece to go from the sally-port..to the communication trough. 1846    Sci. Amer. 26 Dec. 110/4  				A magazine..with an iron pipe ascending from its top, connected with the traction and communication pipes. 1886    Chambers's Jrnl. 3 698/2  				Every shaft has now a communication pit. 1916    Fort Wayne 		(Indiana)	 19 Feb. 11/3  				One [target] was an enemy trench 350 yards away, another was a communication sap 500 yards off. 1984    Times 30 May 2/4  				At Dodworth pit..a vital communication tunnel has been reduced by geological pressures from 12 feet to three feet for nearly half a mile. 1995    Age 		(Melbourne)	 		(Nexis)	 23 Dec. 4  				A West Coast conductor locked the carriage's communication doors before it travelled to Geelong in the morning. < as lemmas  | 
	
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