Pipe Paɪp Hot Water Noun Cold Properly Insulated

• both hot and cold water pipes should be properly insulated.
• steel/copper pipes
• a burst pipe
• the house was blown apart by an explosion, caused by a leaking gas pipe.

pipe

1. a tube through which liquids and gases can flow
• SEE ALSO drainpipe
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/drainpipe
• Both hot and cold water pipes should be properly insulated.
• steel/copper pipes
• a burst pipe
• The house was blown apart by an explosion, caused by a leaking gas pipe.
• PVC pipe is commonly used in building and construction.
• a drainage/sewage pipe
• Insulation may reduce the danger of pipes bursting in winter.

Extra Examples

• He laid the pipes under the floorboards.
• Insulating your pipes will save on your heating bills.
• The pipe from the boiler to the bath.
• The pipes lead into the river.
• The pipes will have to pass through the wall.
• the pipe for the hot water
• to join two lengths of pipe together
• All the old lead pipes were replaced with plastic and copper.
2. a narrow tube with a bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco
• SEE ALSO peace pipe
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/peace-pipe
• to smoke a pipe
• He puffed on his pipe.
• pipe tobacco
• He knocked out his pipe in the big glass ashtray.
3. a musical instrument in the shape of a tube, played by blowing
• SEE ALSO pan pipes
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/pan-pipes
4. any of the tubes from which sound is produced in an organ
5. a musical instrument played especially in Scotland. The player blows air into a bag held under the arm and then slowly forces the air out through pipes to produce a noise.

Word Origin

• Old English pīpe ‘musical tube’, pīpian ‘play a pipe’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijp and German Pfeife, based on Latin pipare ‘to peep, chirp’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French piper ‘to chirp, squeak’.