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单词 pipe
释义

pipenoun [ C ]

uk/paɪp/us/paɪp/

pipe noun [ C ] (TUBE)

B1 a tube inside which liquid or gas flows from one place to another:

a water/gas/sewer pipe
a burst/fractured/leaking pipe

More examples

  • Water was leaking from the pipe.
  • The leakage was traced to an oil pipe in the cellar.
  • The pipe burst, sending out a shower of water.
  • Our pipes froze (up) several times last winter.
  • Engineers acted quickly to repair the damaged pipes.

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Building: plumbing & pipes & sewage

  • ballcock
  • bleed
  • cesspit
  • cistern
  • conduit
  • culvert
  • leakage
  • mixer tap
  • overflow
  • pipeline
  • piping
  • plughole
  • plumb
  • plunger
  • siphon
  • standpipe
  • stopcock
  • tubing
  • U-bend
  • washer

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pipe noun [ C ] (FOR TOBACCO)

a short, narrow tube with a small container at one end, used for smoking tobacco:

I ordered some tea for myself and lit my pipe.

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Tobacco & smoking

  • baccy
  • butt
  • cheroot
  • cig
  • cigarette butt
  • cigarette paper
  • e-cigarette
  • light (sth) up
  • nicotine
  • nicotine patch
  • non-smoker
  • non-smoking
  • roll-your-own
  • second-hand smoke
  • smoke
  • smoker
  • smoking
  • stub
  • tar
  • tobacconist

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pipe noun [ C ] (INSTRUMENT)

a simple musical instrument made of a short, narrow tube that is played by blowing through it

pipes [ plural ]

another word for bagpipes

one of the metal or wood tubes in an organ through which air is pushed to make sound

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Musical instruments

  • accordion
  • alphorn
  • alto
  • alto recorder
  • bagpipes
  • dulcimer
  • English horn
  • euphonium
  • fingerboard
  • flugelhorn
  • pick
  • pitched
  • plectrum
  • reed
  • reed instrument
  • viol
  • viola
  • violin
  • violoncello
  • vuvuzela

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pipe noun [ C ] (SYMBOL)

the | symbol on a computer keyboard

Idiom(s)

put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

pipeverb

uk/paɪp/us/paɪp/

pipe verb (SPEAK)

[ T ] to speak or sing in a high voice

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Ways of talking

  • -mouthed
  • babel
  • blab
  • blather
  • croon
  • declamatory
  • drone
  • drone on
  • expressive
  • hold the floor idiom
  • lyrical
  • meanderings
  • rabbit
  • rabbit on
  • sink to a whisper idiom
  • tattle
  • telegrammatic
  • throw
  • waffle
  • yap

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pipe verb (TUBE)

[ T usually passive, + adv/prep ] to transport something in a pipe:

Hot water is piped to all apartments from the central boiler room.
figurative Music is piped throughout the hotel complex.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Building: plumbing & pipes & sewage

  • ballcock
  • bleed
  • cesspit
  • cistern
  • conduit
  • culvert
  • leakage
  • mixer tap
  • overflow
  • pipeline
  • piping
  • plughole
  • plumb
  • plunger
  • siphon
  • standpipe
  • stopcock
  • tubing
  • U-bend
  • washer

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Phrasal verb(s)

pipe down
pipe up
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