The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, a. [L. exhaustus, p. p.]
Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
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Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.
Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through.
Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it.
Exhaust nozzle, Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle.
Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.
Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.
Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught.
--Knight.Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston.
Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder.
Wiktionary
n. For internal combustion engines, the pipe that vents waste gases from the engine.
WordNet
n. a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler
Usage examples of "exhaust pipe".
Giordino was in the midst of using the tools he'd found in the trunk of the car to remove the exhaust pipe and muffler to give the car more ground clearance.
He drove his car into the garage, clamped flexible tubing to his exhaust pipe, tapped a hole in the pipe which sent hot air to Peter Laxter's bedroom, and closed the damper back of the place where he'd brought the tubing into the pipe.
A generator had been brought in by the SEALs, who'd laid a hose from the exhaust pipe to the archway outside to remove any fumes.
But I've wondered why she would do it the way she did - and I've wondered how a woman who didn't know the slightest thing about cars would know enough to get the hose and attach it to the exhaust pipe and put it in through the window.
Pitt hit the starter and the big engine turned over with a soft purr before the eight cylinders fired and broadcast a mellow roar through the big exhaust pipe.
In the other corner was a softly-humming petrol-powered generator with its exhaust pipe disappearing upwards through the roof.
She picked up the length of exhaust pipe and held it against Ringo's nose.
The exhaust pipe hung down from the undercarriage and was held in place with rusted wire.