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# pipe

«pipe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long tube that water, gas or oil flows through** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#m1)

2) A pipe is also a small tube with a bowl for smoking tobacco. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#m2)

3) A pipe is a simple musical instrument you blow into, like bagpipes or a recorder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#m3)

4) To pipe is to send something through pipes, or to squeeze cream or icing out of a bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x1)
- Water flows through the pipe at 5 litres a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x2)
- A 12 m pipe is cut into 3 equal pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x3)
- One pipe fills, another empties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x4)
- A pipe burst in the cold and flooded the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x5)
- The Pied Piper played his pipe and the rats followed him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x6)
- She piped icing onto the cupcakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x7)
- The soup was piping hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/12/)
- [Rats are good swimmers and can hold their breath for a few minutes, so they can swim through pipes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/8/)
- [Pan-pipes are a row of reed pipes of different lengths tied together and blown across the top.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/50-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper/11/)
- [Heartburn is when some stomach acid comes up into the food pipe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/15/)
- [Only toilet paper is flushed, and only as much as needed, because wipes, toys and too much paper block the pipes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pipe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.