word-vault/dist/data/cards/pi/pipe.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "pipe",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "image": "data/images/pi/pipes.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a tube through which liquids and gases can flow",
            "labels": "(British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(British English)(British English)(especially British English)(especially British English)(North American English usually)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Both hot and cold **water pipes** should be properly insulated."
                },
                {
                    "text": "steel/copper pipes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **burst pipe**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house was blown apart by an explosion, caused by a leaking gas pipe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "PVC pipe is commonly used in building and construction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a drainage/sewage pipe"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Insulation may reduce the danger of pipes bursting in winter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He laid the pipes under the floorboards."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Insulating your pipes will save on your heating bills."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pipe from the boiler to the bath."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pipes lead into the river."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pipes will have to pass through the wall."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the pipe for the hot water"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to join two lengths of pipe together"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All the old lead pipes were replaced with plastic and copper."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["underground", "gas", "sewage"],
                "… of pipe": ["length"],
                "verb + pipe": ["install", "lay", "run"],
                "pipe + verb": ["lead", "pass through something", "run"],
                "preposition": ["through a/​the pipe", "pipe for", "pipe from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a narrow tube with a bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to smoke a pipe"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He puffed on his pipe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "pipe tobacco"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He knocked out his pipe in the big glass ashtray."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clay", "peace", "crack"],
                "verb + pipe": ["smoke", "light", "fill"],
                "pipe + noun": ["smoker", "smoke", "tobacco"],
                "phrases": ["the bowl of a pipe", "the stem of a pipe"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a musical instrument in the shape of a tube, played by blowing",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Music"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "any of the tubes from which sound is produced in an organ",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "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.",
            "labels": "North American English also",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/paɪp/",
                "audio": "pi/pipe/pipe__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/paɪp/",
                "audio": "pi/pipe/pipe__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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’."
}