| 单词 | pipage |
| 释义 | pipage in British English (ˈpaɪpɪdʒ) noun 1. pipes collectively 2. conveyance by pipes 3. the money charged for such conveyance pipage in American English (ˈpaɪpɪdʒ) noun 1. transportation, as of water, natural gas, oil, etc., by pipes 2. the charge for such transportation 3. a system of such pipes pipage in American English (ˈpaipɪdʒ) noun 1. conveyance, as of water, gas, or oil, by means of pipes 2. the pipes so used 3. the sum charged for the conveyance Word origin [1605–15; pipe1 + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ferrule, inverse, package, pivot, surface-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage) |
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