stovepipe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace.
    — On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
  2. A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it.
  3. A stovepipe hat.
    — I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
  4. A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
  5. A trench mortar such as the Stokes mortar. slang
动词 v.
  1. To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or able to make use of it are restricted from accessing it. idiomatic,transitive
  2. Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the weapon. intransitive

词形变化

stovepipes plural stove-pipe alternative stovepipes present,singular,third-person stovepiping participle,present stovepiped participle,past stovepiped past stove-pipe alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
stovepipe trousers stovepipe hat stovepipe tornado

词源

词源 1
From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
词源 2
From stove + pipe. The firearms sense is due to the trapped cartridge case resembling a stovepipe of the stove sense.
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