Pipe Water Hot Paɪp Cold Leaking Gas Noun

• hot and cold water pipes
• lead/plastic pipes
• a leaking gas pipe
• copper pipe is sold in lengths.

pipe

1. a tube through which liquids and gases can flow
• see also drainpipe
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/drainpipe
• hot and cold water pipes
• lead/plastic pipes
• a leaking gas pipe
• Copper pipe is sold in lengths.
• a burst pipe
• Insulation may reduce the danger of pipes bursting in winter.
2. a narrow tube with a bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco
• to smoke a pipe
• He puffed on his pipe.
• pipe tobacco
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
• = bagpipes
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bagpipes

Extra Examples

• He knocked out his pipe in the big glass ashtray.
• 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 hot and cold water pipes
• the pipe for the hot water
• to join two lengths of pipe together
• All the old lead pipes were replaced with plastic and copper.
• Both hot and cold water pipes should be properly insulated.
• Insulation may reduce the risk of water pipes bursting in winter.
• The car’s exhaust pipe was blocked with snow.
• The house was blown apart by an explosion, caused by a leaking gas pipe.

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’.