drainpipe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout.

   “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.”

2. isim A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water.

   “She's in a drainpipe--right there," I said, pointing toward the hole in the side of the ditch.”

3. isim A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc.

   “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.”

4. isim A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid.

   “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.”

5. isim The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe.

   “Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end.”

6. isim A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs.

   “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.”