Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pipe for carrying off water or sewage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pipe used in draining.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pipe connecting thedrain to thegutter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pipe through which liquid is carried away
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Examples
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Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe.
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Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe.
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Vital Signs - If there is one thing guaranteed to set a Lemmings teeth on edge it's white guys with dreadlocks, no I really mean 'drainpipe' reggae (i.e. no flair).
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The courtyard was only twenty square yards, but there was a drainpipe where the fence met the wall.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Once I climbed up a drainpipe and along a gutter to avoid a fence around the ward and escaped into the bushes.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves.
"The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010) Brad Watson 2010
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It was always too dark, or windy, it was too late to call or she would have grown blooms enough to rasp against the drainpipe, she could have frilled the sills with fringe.
Painted Garden Cheryl Snell 2010
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Once I climbed up a drainpipe and along a gutter to avoid a fence around the ward and escaped into the bushes.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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I snuck back to the house, climbing the back shed drainpipe and dropping to the floor of my bedroom, before stripping the leotard off and burying it deep in my laundry basket.
four-leafed clover James Claffey 2012
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The courtyard was only twenty square yards, but there was a drainpipe where the fence met the wall.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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