pipe

Word family nounpipagepipefulpiperpipeclaypiped musicpipefishpipelinepipeliningpipe organpipestonepipeworkpipewortpipeadjectivepipedpipelesspipelikepipingpipy

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ldoce_261_bpipe1 /paɪp/ S2 W3 noun [countableC]

tube 管子TD a tube through which a liquid or gas flows 管，管子，管道

a water pipe

水管

a frozen waste pipe

冻住的污水管

copper pipes

铜管

A pipe had burst in the kitchen and flooded the floor.

厨房的一根管道爆裂，弄得满地都是水。

→ drainpipe, windpipe, → exhaust pipe at exhaust2(1) →5 See picture of PIPES 烟斗；管道 →4 See picture of 见图 pipe

for smoking 用于抽烟DFT a thing used for smoking tobacco, consisting of a small tube with a container shaped like a bowl at one end 烟斗

Dad was there, smoking his pipe.

爸爸在那里吸着烟斗。

pipe tobacco

烟斗丝

3 music 音乐

a) APMa simple musical instrument like a tube, that you play by blowing 笛（子） → panpipes

b) APMone of the metal tubes that air passes through when you play an organ 〔管风琴的〕音管，风管

c) the pipesAPM bagpipes 〔苏格兰的〕风笛

→5 see picture at 见图 organ

4 pipe dream PROBABLYa hope, idea, plan etc that is impossible or will probably never happen 白日梦，幻想，空想

In many parts of the country, democratic elections are simply a pipe dream.

在那个国家的很多地区，民主选举只是一个幻想。

Examples from the Corpus

pipe dream• The November 1992 unveiling quickly became a pipe dream, and the museum now plans to finish the new wing incrementally.• Making it all the way to the NFL is a pipe dream for most athletes.• How are you going to ensure that Care in the Community is not just a pipe dream?• Yet collective, national education re-form seems mostly a pipe dream.• For now, it is only a pipe dream.• Of course, it's a pipe dream.• What a pipe dream, we thought, as many children were getting no education at all.• It was ready because the artfully crafted pipe dream of the land traffickers was beginning to sour.• This is not some pipe dream.

5. put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it spokenACCEPT used to say that someone must accept what you have just said, even though they do not like it 不管喜欢不喜欢，你都得接受我所说的

n COLLOCATIONS

NOUN + pipe

a water pipe

Be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables.

a gas pipe

a waste pipe

What’s the best way to clear a blocked waste pipe?

a sewer/sewage pipe (=for removing waste from the human body)

verbs

lay a pipe

They were digging a trench to lay water pipes.

block a pipe

It is likely that fat or grease is blocking the waste pipe.

a pipe leaks

He complained that a water pipe was leaking in his hotel room.

a pipe freezes

That winter was so cold that the pipes froze and we had no water.

a pipe bursts

A burst pipe can cause major structural damage quite quickly.

Examples from the Corpus

pipe• Dad has smoked a pipe for years.• Gas and drainage pipes had broken as a result of the settlement and there was a risk of further breaks.• Silver waited calmly, his pipe in his mouth, as he watched his followers.• Gary and I laughed, but Nate just puffed away on his pipe.• sewer pipes• The sound of the pipes came back from beyond, and no one was there in the room.• It took him three hours to uncover the pipe, the ground was so hard.• Up above were the pipes of the cellar ceiling.• Passing this liquid through pipes in the radiator allowed it to radiate energy into the cold of space.• At the second switchback, a Y in the trail breaks at a big yellow water pipe.• Let a little water run in your sink so that your pipes don't freeze.

water pipe• A water pipe jutted from the sandy village main street another half mile to the east.• When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips, be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables.• The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years.• The programme will involve stripping lead paint from housing, replacing lead water pipes and removing contaminated soil from Tehranmany areas.• That night, two major water pipes were blown up, depriving Belfast of its water supplies.• Think of our public systems as an infrastructure-like sewers, water pipes, and electrical lines-and the idea of transparency becomes clear.• Yes, this location of the water pipe is correct.• The water pipes in the kitchen were frozen.

smoking ... pipe• All through the afternoon and the evening he went on thinking silently, and smoking pipe after pipe.• He was sitting in his chair, smoking a pipe, and my first reaction was not favourable.• Nanny Ogg was sitting on a chair just inside the door, smoking her pipe.• Father worn out from the beating he had administered, sat on the doorstep smoking his pipe.• They used to sit here together for hours, smoking their pipes and chatting.• Don King wondered if I was off smoking a pipe somewhere, or something.• Supposing the tramp was there behind the clump, she thought, smoking his pipe and waiting to catch her?• I have seen few women smoking a pipe.

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pipe2 verb

1 send liquid/gas 输送液体/气体 [transitiveT]TAKE/BRING to send a liquid or gas through a pipe to another place 用管道输送〔液体或气体〕

be piped into/from/out of etc something

Eighty per cent of sewage is piped directly into the sea.

80%的污水被直接排入海中。

be piped in/out/up etc

A lot of oil is piped in from Alaska.

大量石油是从阿拉斯加输送来的。

villages with no piped water

没有管道供水的乡村

n Grammar

Pipe is usually passive in this meaning.

2. make music 演奏音乐 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]APM to make a musical sound, using a pipe 吹奏（笛子）

3. food 食物DFC [transitiveT] to decorate food, especially a cake, with lines of icing or cream 在〔蛋糕〕上裱花

4 speak 说话 [transitiveT] literary to speak or sing something in a high voice 高声说；高声唱

‘Morning!’ he piped with a cheery voice.

“早上好！”他声音愉快地高声说道。

5 pipe down phrasal verbphr v spoken QUIETto stop talking or making a noise, and become calmer and less excited 停止讲话[吵闹]；安静下来

Everybody pipe down. There’s no need to shout.

大家都请安静下来，没有必要嚷嚷。

6 pipe something ↔ in (also pipe something into something) phrasal verbphr v to send radio signals or recorded music into a room or building 传输，传送〔无线电信号或录制的音乐到某地〕

tunes piped in over an acoustic system

通过音响系统传送出来的旋律

Examples from the Corpus

pipe in• He drove out on to Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in.• They kept the faucets open, to delay at least, the freezing of the pipes.• The black pipes interlocked in complex patterns from the low ceiling above mountains of mats.• She commenced an impersonation of Hodges, piping inaudible words in effete falsetto, rolling her eyes like a stage Othello.• I piped up in his defense, having had moments to collect my thoughts.• Another example is where a burst pipe occurs in our policyholder's home causing water damage to neighbouring property.• In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place.

7 pipe up phrasal verbphr v informal SAY/STATEto suddenly say something, especially when you have been quiet until then 突然说话〔尤指之前一直很安静〕

Mum suddenly piped up ‘No!’

妈妈突然说：“不行！”

Examples from the Corpus

pipe• Place a little icing in a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe a decorative border around each foil mirror.• No Jacuzzi, no sauna, no music piped in.• Then pipe inside the outlines to fill.• I awoke to hundreds of birds piping their morning song.• The answer-it is such an obvious question-is shouted forth on piping wings of derision.

be piped into/from/out of etc something• Hal, with his pipe sticking out of his jacket pocket.

Origin pipe1

Old English pipa, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin pipare “to make a high sound”

词汇	pipe
释义	pipe Word family nounpipagepipefulpiperpipeclaypiped musicpipefishpipelinepipeliningpipe organpipestonepipeworkpipewortpipeadjectivepipedpipelesspipelikepipingpipy Related topics: Technology, Daily life, Tobacco ldoce_261_bpipe1 /paɪp/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [countableC] 1 tube 管子TD a tube through which a liquid or gas flows 管，管子，管道 a water pipe 水管 a frozen waste pipe 冻住的污水管 copper pipes 铜管 A pipe had burst in the kitchen and flooded the floor. 厨房的一根管道爆裂，弄得满地都是水。 → drainpipe, windpipe, → exhaust pipe at exhaust2(1) →5 See picture of PIPES 烟斗；管道 →4 See picture of 见图 pipe 2 for smoking 用于抽烟DFT a thing used for smoking tobacco, consisting of a small tube with a container shaped like a bowl at one end 烟斗 Dad was there, smoking his pipe. 爸爸在那里吸着烟斗。 pipe tobacco 烟斗丝 3 music 音乐 a) APMa simple musical instrument like a tube, that you play by blowing 笛（子） → panpipes b) APMone of the metal tubes that air passes through when you play an organ 〔管风琴的〕音管，风管 c) the pipesAPM bagpipes 〔苏格兰的〕风笛 →5 see picture at 见图 organ 4 pipe dream PROBABLYa hope, idea, plan etc that is impossible or will probably never happen 白日梦，幻想，空想 In many parts of the country, democratic elections are simply a pipe dream. 在那个国家的很多地区，民主选举只是一个幻想。 Examples from the Corpus pipe dream• The November 1992 unveiling quickly became a pipe dream, and the museum now plans to finish the new wing incrementally.• Making it all the way to the NFL is a pipe dream for most athletes.• How are you going to ensure that Care in the Community is not just a pipe dream?• Yet collective, national education re-form seems mostly a pipe dream.• For now, it is only a pipe dream.• Of course, it's a pipe dream.• What a pipe dream, we thought, as many children were getting no education at all.• It was ready because the artfully crafted pipe dream of the land traffickers was beginning to sour.• This is not some pipe dream. 5. put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it spokenACCEPT used to say that someone must accept what you have just said, even though they do not like it 不管喜欢不喜欢，你都得接受我所说的 n COLLOCATIONS NOUN + pipe a water pipe Be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables. a gas pipe a waste pipe What’s the best way to clear a blocked waste pipe? a sewer/sewage pipe (=for removing waste from the human body) verbs lay a pipe They were digging a trench to lay water pipes. block a pipe It is likely that fat or grease is blocking the waste pipe. a pipe leaks He complained that a water pipe was leaking in his hotel room. a pipe freezes That winter was so cold that the pipes froze and we had no water. a pipe bursts A burst pipe can cause major structural damage quite quickly. Examples from the Corpus pipe• Dad has smoked a pipe for years.• Gas and drainage pipes had broken as a result of the settlement and there was a risk of further breaks.• Silver waited calmly, his pipe in his mouth, as he watched his followers.• Gary and I laughed, but Nate just puffed away on his pipe.• sewer pipes• The sound of the pipes came back from beyond, and no one was there in the room.• It took him three hours to uncover the pipe, the ground was so hard.• Up above were the pipes of the cellar ceiling.• Passing this liquid through pipes in the radiator allowed it to radiate energy into the cold of space.• At the second switchback, a Y in the trail breaks at a big yellow water pipe.• Let a little water run in your sink so that your pipes don't freeze. water pipe• A water pipe jutted from the sandy village main street another half mile to the east.• When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips, be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables.• The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years.• The programme will involve stripping lead paint from housing, replacing lead water pipes and removing contaminated soil from Tehranmany areas.• That night, two major water pipes were blown up, depriving Belfast of its water supplies.• Think of our public systems as an infrastructure-like sewers, water pipes, and electrical lines-and the idea of transparency becomes clear.• Yes, this location of the water pipe is correct.• The water pipes in the kitchen were frozen. smoking ... pipe• All through the afternoon and the evening he went on thinking silently, and smoking pipe after pipe.• He was sitting in his chair, smoking a pipe, and my first reaction was not favourable.• Nanny Ogg was sitting on a chair just inside the door, smoking her pipe.• Father worn out from the beating he had administered, sat on the doorstep smoking his pipe.• They used to sit here together for hours, smoking their pipes and chatting.• Don King wondered if I was off smoking a pipe somewhere, or something.• Supposing the tramp was there behind the clump, she thought, smoking his pipe and waiting to catch her?• I have seen few women smoking a pipe. Related topics: Music, Cooking pipe2 verb 1 send liquid/gas 输送液体/气体 [transitiveT]TAKE/BRING to send a liquid or gas through a pipe to another place 用管道输送〔液体或气体〕 be piped into/from/out of etc something Eighty per cent of sewage is piped directly into the sea. 80%的污水被直接排入海中。 be piped in/out/up etc A lot of oil is piped in from Alaska. 大量石油是从阿拉斯加输送来的。 villages with no piped water 没有管道供水的乡村 n Grammar Pipe is usually passive in this meaning. 2. make music 演奏音乐 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]APM to make a musical sound, using a pipe 吹奏（笛子） 3. food 食物DFC [transitiveT] to decorate food, especially a cake, with lines of icing or cream 在〔蛋糕〕上裱花 4 speak 说话 [transitiveT] literary to speak or sing something in a high voice 高声说；高声唱 ‘Morning!’ he piped with a cheery voice. “早上好！”他声音愉快地高声说道。 5 pipe down phrasal verbphr v spoken QUIETto stop talking or making a noise, and become calmer and less excited 停止讲话[吵闹]；安静下来 Everybody pipe down. There’s no need to shout. 大家都请安静下来，没有必要嚷嚷。 6 pipe something ↔ in (also pipe something into something) phrasal verbphr v to send radio signals or recorded music into a room or building 传输，传送〔无线电信号或录制的音乐到某地〕 tunes piped in over an acoustic system 通过音响系统传送出来的旋律 Examples from the Corpus pipe in• He drove out on to Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in.• They kept the faucets open, to delay at least, the freezing of the pipes.• The black pipes interlocked in complex patterns from the low ceiling above mountains of mats.• She commenced an impersonation of Hodges, piping inaudible words in effete falsetto, rolling her eyes like a stage Othello.• I piped up in his defense, having had moments to collect my thoughts.• Another example is where a burst pipe occurs in our policyholder's home causing water damage to neighbouring property.• In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place. 7 pipe up phrasal verbphr v informal SAY/STATEto suddenly say something, especially when you have been quiet until then 突然说话〔尤指之前一直很安静〕 Mum suddenly piped up ‘No!’ 妈妈突然说：“不行！” Examples from the Corpus pipe• Place a little icing in a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe a decorative border around each foil mirror.• No Jacuzzi, no sauna, no music piped in.• Then pipe inside the outlines to fill.• I awoke to hundreds of birds piping their morning song.• The answer-it is such an obvious question-is shouted forth on piping wings of derision. be piped into/from/out of etc something• Hal, with his pipe sticking out of his jacket pocket. Origin pipe1 Old English pipa, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin pipare “to make a high sound”
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