What's the difference between pipe and ramp?

Pipe


Definition:

  • (n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
  • (n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
  • (n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
  • (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
  • (n.) The key or sound of the voice.
  • (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
  • (n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
  • (n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.
  • (n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
  • (n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
  • (n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
  • (v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
  • (v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
  • (v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  • (v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
  • (v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
  • (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (2) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (3) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
  • (4) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
  • (5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
  • (6) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
  • (7) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).
  • (8) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
  • (9) Vibratome sectons are incubated at 37 degrees C for 60 min in 0.1 M Pipes buffer, pH 7.8, containing 3 mM cerium chloride and 0.1 mM sodium urate.
  • (10) Women smokers, cigar, and pipe smokers also face an increased risk for lung cancer.
  • (11) While studying forced inhale the diaphragms were set up at Fleish pipe airflow input.
  • (12) In addition, the risk of lung cancer associated with other methods of tobacco consumption--in particular, the use of bamboo water-pipes and long-stem pipes--is uncertain.
  • (13) Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae grew after the experimental contamination for many weeks on the rubber hose until the test was finally stopped, in the other pipes and hoses (glass, high-grade steel, PVC, PE, PA, PTFE and silicone) E. coli could be found for maximal 7 weeks, Citrobacter freundii for 1 week and Klebsiella pneumoniae for maximal 3 weeks.
  • (14) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
  • (15) The in vitro binding properties of 1-(cyclopropylmethyl)-4-(2'-(4''-fluorophenyl)-2'-oxoethyl)pipe ridi ne HBr, [3H]DuP 734, a novel sigma receptor ligand, were examined in homogenates of guinea pig brain.
  • (16) Social changes going on in the society were reflected in choice of substance forms by younger people as compared to their elders (e.g., cigarettes vs pipes or cigars, heroin vs opium, manufactured vs village-produced alcohol).
  • (17) The reaction of an unspecific microorganism flora and of Legionella pneumophila in pipes and hoses has been described in the two previous communications.
  • (18) One company will effectively control the only data pipe going into a near majority of American homes, whether that’s internet TV or phones,” Stoltz said.
  • (19) Radical species are formed from the piperazine ring-based buffers Hepes (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid), Epps 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinepropanesulfonic acid, and Pipes 1,4-piperazinediethanesulfonic acid, but not from Mes (4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid) which contains a morpholine ring.
  • (20) "Two guys came and spent several hours tracking down the cause, which turned out to be a blocked pipe.

Ramp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
  • (v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
  • (v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
  • (n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
  • (n.) A highwayman; a robber.
  • (n.) A romping woman; a prostitute.
  • (n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
  • (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
  • (n.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
  • (2) Stiffness was reduced in approximate proportion to the ramp stretch rate, and the reduction was confined largely to the elastic component.
  • (3) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
  • (4) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
  • (5) Fiber activity was assessed by applying to the Achilles tendon a 5-mm ramp stretch at 5 or 25-30 mm X s-1.
  • (6) Phasic-tonic MUs exhibited a phasic burst of activity during the torque ramp which exceeded the firing rate during the static hold period.
  • (7) Three-dimensional wavelength-absorbance-furnace temperature spectra can be obtained by using ramped heating steps to provide a rough separation of elements in a mixture.
  • (8) This report considers the accuracy of the measurement method as a function of ramp width.
  • (9) Slow-adapting free nerve endings were also observed through response to square wave pressure stimuli and ramp shaped pressure stimuli.
  • (10) The ventilatory sensitivity to CO2 obtained from a non-steady-state step-ramp CO2 challenge (analogous to the Read rebreathing method) was compared with the one of the steady-state method.
  • (11) These findings indicate that muscle length does influence the discharge pattern of motor unit spike trains during isometric ramp contractions.
  • (12) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
  • (13) This report describes an inexpensive ramp generator which produces multiple ramp-and-hold stimuli ("staircase-type" wave forms).
  • (14) Wheelchair ramps Raul Krauthausen is the man behind Wheelmap, a crowdsourced map of wheelchair-friendly places around the world.
  • (15) An IBM PC-compatible computer program, RAMP, for evaluation of single-channel recordings acquired using voltage ramp protocols is presented.
  • (16) When step-ramp stimuli were presented in the normal field, the monkeys delayed the initiation of saccades to targets moving towards the central fixation point, and hastened the initiation of saccades to targets moving away from the central fixation point.
  • (17) The aim of this work was to provide well defined criteria for ramp construction for wheelchair dependent individuals (WDI).
  • (18) The council apparently told Lally that the giant ramp was the only option because of building regulations.
  • (19) The findings suggest that with the stimulator used in this study, ramp time has no effect on the three basic excitatory responses, i.e., thresholds of sensory, motor and painful stimulation.
  • (20) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.