(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).
Vertical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
(a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
(n.) Vertical position; zenith.
(n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
(3) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(4) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(5) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(6) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(7) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(8) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(9) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
(10) From a psychological-vertical aspect the group is rather a common situation in which the individual members remain in their experience separated from each other.
(11) Single vertical spin and electron microscopy analyses of these HDL subpopulations demonstrated that acid elution from the affinity columns caused no detectable change in size and density of the three subpopulation particles.
(12) 'Vertical' sections are plane sections longitudinal to a fixed (but arbitrary) axial direction.
(13) Although active head movements reversed horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes, vertical vestibulo-ocular reflexes in light and darkness were normal.
(14) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(15) These observations suggest that the persistently mobile, vertically positioned unbonded cup remain stable despite the stress of significant trauma.
(16) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
(17) The "lazy-T" technique consists of a surgical horizontal and vertical shortening of the involved portion of the lower eyelid.
(18) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
(19) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(20) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.