drainpipe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From drain + pipe.
Compound parts: drain
pipe
Inflected forms:
form: drainpipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drain pipe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He unlatched the window and stuck his head out — there was a drainpipe a couple of feet to the left but his room was on the second floor and it was too dark to tell whether the garden below was grass, soil, or paving.
We said earlier that we normally use a curved or bent piece of pipe at the top of the drainpipe where it is connected to the gutter, and a fitting at the bottom end of the drainpipe that directs the water into a channel or a drain or gully.
There was a black drainpipe running the entire height of the hotel wall alongside her balcony and I managed to pull myself onto it, gripping the rough, rusty metal as firmly as I could.
gloss: A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Where a lot owner knows that his premises will be flooded in case of a heavy rain, unless a certain city drainpipe in the street adjacent thereto is cleaned out, and gives no notice of it, and makes no effort to remedy the defect, he cannot recover of the city damages caused by flooding his premises during such storm.
She's in a drainpipe--right there," I said, pointing toward the hole in the side of the ditch.
Her body was found stuffed in a big, ole drainpipe down near the river.
gloss: A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: First you should know that the size of the drain hole in the bottom of the sink is reflective of the drainpipe's diameter that has been standardized by the plumbing industry.
A crude analogy is to liken this to water draining noisily from a bathtub. As the liquid falls down into the drainpipe, some of its swirling kinetic energy is converted into sound waves, water bashing against molecules of air.
Since we didn't have a septic tank, we made sure there was an empty bucket underneath the sink. That's where we had a straight drainpipe, and after the dishes were washed, we would take the bucket from underneath the sink and throw waatever was in there outside.
gloss: A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For years mechanical refrigerator salesmen have delighted in sticking their finger down inside the drainpipe of an ice refrigerator and drawing it out covered with slime, in an effort to demonstrate to the housewife that ice refrigeration is unclean.
Attach the rubber tubing to the drainpipe of the ice chamber and place the end in a pail.
Start the securely anchored centrifuge and slowly increase to the proper speed (2000 – 2500 rpm). Solvent will be rapidly expelled from the drainpipe.
gloss: The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.
. Buy enough unperforated, rigid plastic drainpipe for the job at a building supply center; also buy a 90-degree drainpipe elbow, drainpipe couplings, and any adapter available to join the drainpipe and downspout.
Tangled in the bushes we found a rusty length of drainpipe; we fastened it to the tree and made a kind of big nest above in the branches and spent a lot of time scrambling up and down the tree into the nest and hollering secret coded messages into the drainpipe to a comrade below.
It stood upended in the middle of the room, cylindrical as a length of earthenware drainpipe – which, in fact, it was – and gay as a Joseph's coat of many colours.
gloss: A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the flick of a switch I would change mode and tart up in my new Toby, a horrendous copy of a Savile Row suit, waisted, with a twelve-inch vent at the back, drainpipe trousers and a rose in my buttonhole.
He was skinny, and wearing drainpipe jeans and a gothic Tshirt with the word 'VOMIT' in silver sparkly letters on black.
You also had punks who were again easily identifiable as a group and the members of that group did their best to look different, sporting different uses of hair colour and rips that could occur anywhere in their black drainpipe jeans, army trousers, or in their prolific graffiti'd denim jackets, as well as the hard wearing black leather studded jackets which would sometimes have the famous anarchy symbol and the names of whatever punk bands the individual happened to admire.
Related words: drainout
drainplug
tailpipe
Derived words: drainpipe trousers
drainpipe jeans
like a rat up a drainpipe
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