Meaning of Drainpipe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pipe that carries fluid which is being drained.
   countable, uncountable
2. A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout.
   countable, uncountable
3. A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water.
   countable, uncountable
4. A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc.
   countable, uncountable
5. A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid.
   countable, uncountable
6. The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe.
   uncountable
7. A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs.
   countable, uncountable

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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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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