| piping | playing a pipe or the bagpipes |
line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
single
bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
single entry
single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
| single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
piping crow
piping crow-shrike
Gymnorhina tibicen | crow-sized black-and-white bird, a good mimic often caged |
| piping guan | a kind of guan |
piping plover
Charadrius melodus | small plover of eastern North America |
air passage
air duct
airway | a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) |
Alaskan pipeline
trans-Alaska pipeline | an oil pipeline that runs miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez |
capillary
capillary tube
capillary tubing | a tube of small internal diameter, holds liquid by capillary action |
| conduit | a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass, the computers were connected through a system of conduits |
detached house
single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
| duct | an enclosed conduit for a fluid |
| duct tape | a wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses, duct tape holds the world together |
| oil pipeline | a pipeline used to transport oil |
pipe
pipage
piping | a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. |
pipeline
line | a pipe used to transport liquids or gases, a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport |
| piping | a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems |
racing skiff
single shell | a shell for a single oarsman |
riser riser pipe
riser pipeline
riser main | a vertical pipe in a building |
| single bed | a bed for one occupant |
| single-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons |
| single-breasted suit | a suit having a single-breasted jacket |
single crochet
single stitch | a crochet stitch |
single prop
single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
tube
tubing | conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases |
| single-mindedness | characterized by one unified purpose |
duct
epithelial duct
canal
channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
exocrine gland
exocrine
duct gland | a gland that secretes externally through a duct |
| sweat duct | a small duct that conveys sweat from a sudoriferous gland to the surface of the skin |
lacrimal duct
lachrymal duct
tear duct | any of several small ducts that carry tears from the lacrimal glands |
| nasolacrimal duct | a duct that carries tears from the lacrimal sac to the nasal cavity |
| hepatic duct | the duct that drains bile from the liver |
common bile duct
bile duct | a duct formed by the hepatic and cystic ducts, opens into the duodenum |
| pancreatic duct | a duct connecting the pancreas with the intestine |
| thoracic duct | the major duct of the lymphatic system |
| salivary duct | a duct through which saliva passes from the salivary gland into the mouth |
| seminal duct | the efferent duct of the testis in man |
| ejaculatory duct | a part of the seminal duct formed by the duct from the seminal vesicle and the vas deferens, passes through the prostate gland |
| lactiferous duct | ducts of the mammary gland that carry milk to the nipple |
uninominal system
uninominal voting system
single-member system
scrutin uninomial system
scrutin uninominal voting system | based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district |
| single-spacing | typing that does not leave lines blank |
| single quote | a single quotation mark |
grapevine
pipeline
word of mouth | gossip spread by spoken communication, the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth |
light cream
coffee cream
single cream | cream that has at least % butterfat, in England they call light cream `single cream' |
| pipeline company | a company that operates oil pipelines for the oil industry |
file
single file
Indian file | a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other |
single nucleotide polymorphism
SNP | (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered, SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species |