water pipe
A pipe that is a conduit for waterA pipe that is a conduit for water; an essential element of plumbing.
» The water pipes froze and then burst.
Водопроводные трубы замерзли и затем лопнули.
Meaning
2 sensesA pipe that is a conduit for water; an essential element of plumbing.
Wasserleitung, Wasserrohr
водопрові́дvodoprovíd, водогі́нvodohín
A device for smoking, in which the smoke is drawn through a container of water before inhaling.
Wasserpfeife
an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Examples
15 sentencesThe water pipes froze and then burst.
ruВодопроводные трубы замерзли и затем лопнули.
The water pipe burst.
ruВодопроводную трубу прорвало.
deDie Wasserleitung platzte.
The water pipes broke.
Our water pipes broke.
The cold froze the water in the pipes.
deDurch die Kälte gefror das Wasser in den Rohren.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English waterpype. By surface analysis, water + pipe.From Middle English waterpype. By surface analysis, water + pipe.
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