pipe
part of speech
noun (pipe, pipes); verb (pipe, pipes, piped, piping)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pipe is a long tube that water, gas or oil flows through. tree →
2) A pipe is also a small tube with a bowl for smoking tobacco. tree →
3) A pipe is a simple musical instrument you blow into, like bagpipes or a recorder. tree →
4) To pipe is to send something through pipes, or to squeeze cream or icing out of a bag. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a length cut into pieces; water flowing into or out of a tank at a rate; pipes that fill and pipes that empty. In science and everyday life: water pipes in a house, a burst pipe in winter, drainpipes. In stories: the Pied Piper played his pipe. Phrases: «water pipe», «burst pipe», «pipe up» (start to speak), «piping hot» (very hot).
examples
- A pipe fills the tank in 6 hours. tree →
- Water flows through the pipe at 5 litres a minute. tree →
- A 12 m pipe is cut into 3 equal pieces. tree →
- One pipe fills, another empties. tree →
- A pipe burst in the cold and flooded the kitchen. tree →
- The Pied Piper played his pipe and the rats followed him. tree →
- She piped icing onto the cupcakes. tree →
- The soup was piping hot. tree →
note
Countable: «a pipe». Maths: gives a flow rate or a length. Trap: when one pipe fills and another empties, use the difference of the rates.
In the corpora
- Many places have bagpipes: Scotland, Ireland's uilleann pipes, the gaita of Galicia in Spain and the gaida of Bulgaria.
- Rats are good swimmers and can hold their breath for a few minutes, so they can swim through pipes.
- Pan-pipes are a row of reed pipes of different lengths tied together and blown across the top.
- Heartburn is when some stomach acid comes up into the food pipe.
- Only toilet paper is flushed, and only as much as needed, because wipes, toys and too much paper block the pipes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pipe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.