(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.
Standpipe
Definition:
(n.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.
(n.) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the news that river levels are as low as they were during 1976 drought, Johnson claimed there would not be a repeat of people queuing for standpipes in the street.
(2) Six other settlements in the valley, all provided with limited piped water from public standpipes, served as the comparison area.
(3) The presence of a standpipe in the compound was associated with a reduction in diarrhoea morbidity of 56%.
(4) Irrigation is achieved with old-fashioned water pumps – more fun than standpipes – around which residents might gather.
(5) The chalk aquifers of southern England are already one of the most water-stressed regions in the developed world, and we are lucky the last drought ended just in time for the London Olympics, as we were months away from standpipes.
(6) In some areas, supplies to homes were turned off and water was delivered by lorries or public standpipes in streets.
(7) The effect of presence of faeces, animals, and standpipe on the incidence of diarrhoea was not dependent on whether or not mothers were literate.
(8) Gavin McHale, the head of operations at Veolia Water Southeast, urged customers to do everything they could to save water, but stressed there was no likelihood of standpipes being needed.
(9) On the other hand, only 55% of rural inhabitants had access to either piped water or public standpipes.
(10) Standpipes might be needed in the streets in parts of England next year if the country has its third dry winter in a row, the environment secretary has warned.
(11) There is a small standpipe for water and a few temporary toilets have been placed outside.
(12) Back in the north, where I grew up, the standpipes made their appearance, one per 20 houses, but not for more than a month and (allowing for the pink effect of spectacles looking back 30 years) to an encouraging revival of friendships.
(13) Water from standpipes is sold at extortionate prices by landlords in league with local politicians and bureaucrats.
(14) Over the same period in villages served by a standpipe system the incidence fell only very slightly, from 16.5% to 14%.
(15) Furthermore, after the widespread use of antischistosomal drugs, no increase in the prevalence of infection was observed over 4 years in villages with a standpipe water supply, laundries and showers.
(16) Then, as light comes, the silence is broken: water splashes into a bucket held under a standpipe by a child, a pressure cooker wails, someone laughs.
(17) Jon Henley Photograph: Jon Henley For 13 months there was no water, but a campaign by the women persuaded the Gerakas town hall to fit a standpipe in May last year.
(18) Nearby comparison settlements, in the same valley, were provided with water through a public standpipe system.
(19) But she told the BBC's Inside Out programme, to be screened on Wednesday night : "Whereas it's most unlikely we would have standpipes this year, if we have another dry winter that becomes more likely."
(20) The stretched sac was then permitted to contract and to expel its contents through "aortic valvar" orifices of various severities of stenosis, into an aortic standpipe of selected diameters (compliances).