Meaning

1 senses
  1. The drainpipe that connects a roof-line gutter with the ground.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The politician climbed down a rainwater downpipe from police officers.

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  2. The downpipe is blocked, and now the gutter is overflowing.

    deDas Fallrohr ist verstopft und jetzt läuft die Dachrinne über.

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  3. Rainwater flows from the gutter, down the downpipe and into the sewer.

    deAus der Dachrinne fließt das Regenwasser durch das Regenfallrohr in die Kanalisation.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

From down + pipe.

From down + pipe.

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Forms

plural: downpipes
Singulardownpipe
Pluraldownpipes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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