Words / B2

PYP/paɪp/

A pipe is a tube for carrying water, gas, or oil; also a musical instrument or a smoking tube: a burst pipe; pipework. Tube is wider; pipeline is a long industrial line. Map the burst pipe on the estate plan. Mix-up: piper; ripe. Do not call a river a pipe.

Meaning

A tube for carrying water, gas, or oil; also a musical instrument or a smoking tube.

Examples

• “Map the burst pipe on the estate plan, not a metaphor.”
• “A gas pipe featured in the risk assessment, which is the utility sense.”

Good to know

a burst / gas / water pipe; pipework. Close: tube / pipeline. Trap: ripe. Geography, H&S, and news. A tube for fluid, unless music or tobacco is meant.

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