waste pipe
汙水管
Waste a.
1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
The dismal situation waste and wild. --Milton.
His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity. --Sir W. Scott.
2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
But his waste words returned to him in vain. --Spenser.
Not a waste or needless sound,
Till we come to holier ground. --Milton.
Ill day which made this beauty waste. --Emerson.
3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
And strangled with her waste fertility. --Milton.
Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged.
Waste paper. See under Paper.
Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifically: (a) Steam Boilers An escape pipe. See under Escape. (b) Plumbing The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl, tub, sink, or the like.
Waste steam. (a) Steam which escapes the air. (b) Exhaust steam.
Waste trap, a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink.
waste pipe
n : a pipe through which liquid is carried away [syn: drain, drainpipe]