Pipe
[paɪp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc..
(noun.) a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco.
(noun.) a tubular wind instrument.
(noun.) a hollow cylindrical shape.
(verb.) trim with piping; 'pipe the skirt'.
(verb.) play on a pipe; 'pipe a tune'.
(verb.) transport by pipeline; 'pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert'.
編輯:玛杰里--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
整理:梅纳德
解釋/意思:
n. a musical wind instrument consisting of a long tube: any long tube: a tube of clay &c. with a bowl at one end for smoking tobacco: a pipeful: the note of a bird: a cask containing two hogsheads.—v.i. to play upon a pipe: to whistle to chirp: to make a shrill noise.—v.t. to play on a pipe: to call with a pipe as on board ships: to give forth shrill notes: to supply with pipes to convey by pipes.—ns. Pip′age conveyance or distribution by pipes; Pipe′-case a box softly lined to protect a pipe; Pipe′clay a fine white plastic clay very like kaolin but containing a larger percentage of silica used for making tobacco-pipes and fine earthenware.—v.t. to whiten with pipeclay: (slang) to blot out as accounts.—adj. Piped (pīpt) tubulous or fistulous.—ns. Pipe′-fish a genus of fishes in the same order as the seahorse having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates the head long and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout hence the name; Pipe′-lay′er; Pipe′-lay′ing the laying down of pipes for gas water &c.; Pipe′-off′ice formerly an office in the Court of Exchequer in which the clerk of the pipe made out crown-land leases; Pip′er; Pipe′-roll a pipe-like roll the earliest among the records of the Exchequer; Pipe′-stā′ple the stalk of a tobacco-pipe: a stalk of grass; Pipe′-stick the wooden tube used as the stem of some tobacco-pipes; Pipe′-tongs an implement for holding or turning metal pipes or pipe-fittings; Pipe′-tree the lilac; Pipe′-wine (Shak.) wine drawn from the cask as distinguished from bottled wine; Pipe′-wrench a wrench with one movable jaw both so shaped as to bite together when placed on a pipe and rotated round it.—Pipe down to dismiss from muster as a ship's company; Pipe off to watch a house or person for purposes of theft; Pipe one's eye to weep.—Drunk as a piper very drunk; Pay the piper to bear the expense.
錄入:谢里夫
娱乐性解釋/意思:
Pipes seen in dreams, are representatives of peace and comfort after many struggles. Sewer, gas, and such like pipes, denotes unusual thought and prosperity in your community. Old and broken pipe, signifies ill health and stagnation of business. To dream that you smoke a pipe, denotes that you will enjoy the visit of an old friend, and peaceful settlements of differences will also take place.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The boiler was tubular, and the exhaust steam was carried into the chimney by a pipe in front of the smoke stack as shown. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It's up my nose, and down my throat, and in my wind-pipe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A generator containing a strong solution of ammonia is connected by a pipe to an empty receiver immersed in cold water. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It was a clay pipe, and its colour was reddish. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The pipe of tobacco finished the business: and the Bute-Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Heating by the circulation of hot water through pipes was also originated or revived during the 18th century, and a short time before Watt's circulation of steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The rest get among the spittoons and pipes or lean against the piano. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In 1792 Murdoch erected a gas distilling apparatus, and lighted his house and offices by gas distributed through service pipes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The gas, when purified, is conveyed to the gas-holder, whence it is forced by pressure into the mains and pipes. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The pulp, duly beaten, refined, screened, and diluted with water, is then piped into the flow-box of the Fourdrinier machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The theatre was never piped for gas! 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The ideas and methods of Murdoch and Lebon soon took definite shape, and coal smoke was piped from its place of origin to distant points of consumption. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Little Georgette still piped her plaintive wail, appealing to me by her familiar termMinnie, Minnie, me very poorly! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Yet I, too, have sported with Amaryllis in the shade, and piped love-songs to the careless ear of Ne?ra. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- That's odd, said Mr. Limp, a meditative shoemaker, with weak eyes and a piping voice. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am a poet, not a ruler; and Napoleons are made of stronger stuff than mere bards piping their idle song, and letting the world go by. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He thrust his hand into the boot and withdrew one of poor Thomasin's precious guineas, piping hot. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The conductors having been drawn in, a preparation of asphaltum and linseed oil was forced into the piping to serve as insulation. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The eighth book deals with water and with hydraulic engineering , hot springs, mineral waters, leveling instruments, construction of aqueducts, lead and clay piping. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Hence, iron and steel were entirely eliminated in its construction, copper being used for fixtures for steam and water piping, and, indeed, for all other purposes where metal was employed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In old times the woods and solitudes were made joyous to the shepherd by the imaginary piping and dancing of Pan and the nymphs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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