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WASTE PIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waste pipe mean? 

WASTE PIPE (noun)
  The noun WASTE PIPE has 1 sense:

1. a pipe through which liquid is carried awayplay

  Familiarity information: WASTE PIPE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WASTE PIPE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A pipe through which liquid is carried away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drain; drainpipe; waste pipe

Hypernyms ("waste pipe" is a kind of...):

pipage; pipe; piping (a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waste pipe"):

culvert (a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway)

scupper (drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard)

cloaca; sewer; sewerage (a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water)

soil pipe (drain that conveys liquid waste from toilets, etc.)

trap (drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas)


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