Crossword clues for standpipe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Standpipe \Stand"pipe`\ (-p[imac]p`), n.
(Engin.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance.
(Steam Boiler) A supply pipe of sufficient elevation to enable the water to flow into the boiler, notwithstanding the pressure of the steam.
--Knight.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vertical pipe into which water is pumped so that a desired pressure is available at the bottom. 2 # (cx by extension English) A vertical pipe used as an overflow protection drain in certain domestic plumbing fixtures (e.g. flush toilets). 3 The water supply of a building for the use of firefighters.
WordNet
n. a vertical pipe
Wikipedia
In North America, a standpipe is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position or bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water to the fire. Within the context of a building or bridge, a standpipe serves the same purpose as a fire hydrant.
In many other countries, hydrants in streets are below ground level. Fire trucks carry standpipes and key, and there are bars on the truck. The bar is used to lift a cover in the road, exposing the hydrant. The standpipe is then "sunk" into the hydrant, and the hose is connected to the exposed ends of the standpipe. The bar is then combined with the key, and is used to turn the hydrant on and off.
Standpipe may refer to:
- Standpipe (firefighting), a rigid vertical or horizontal pipe to which fire hoses can be connected
- Standpipe (street), an external freestanding pipe to provide running water in areas with no other water supply
- Standpipe water towers, used in the late 19th century
- Standpipe (plumbing), a vertical pipe attached to a p-trap for rapid high-volume wastewater drainage such as washing machines
- Standpipe piezometer, a device that monitors groundwater levels through a borehole
- Rig standpipe, part of a drilling rig.
A standpipe is a freestanding pipe fitted with a tap which is installed outdoors to dispense water in areas which do not have a running water supply to the buildings.
In the United Kingdom, an "Emergency Drought Order" permits a water company to shut off the primary water supply to homes, and to supply water instead from tanks or standpipes in the streets. This was done in some areas during the 1976 heat wave, for example.
In some Middle Eastern, Caribbean and North African countries a standpipe is used as a communal water supply for neighbourhoods which lack individual housing water service. In areas such as Morocco, standpipes often yield unreliable service and lead to water scarcity for large numbers of people. This outcome is not based upon the unreliability of the hardware, but on the underlying condition of the population exceeding the carrying capacity of the region with respect to water resources.
In plumbing, a standpipe is a vertical vented pipe attached to a trap that permits rapid wastewater discharge without disrupting the water seal of nearby traps.
The most common use of standpipes in houses is for clothes washing machines, which rapidly dispense a large volume of wastewater while draining the wash and rinse cycles.
Usage examples of "standpipe".
Another time he had sent Mike to Memorial Park, where the Standpipe was, to look at the birdbath, and once they had gone to the courthouse together to look at a terrible machine that Chief Borton had found in the attic.
It was the Standpipe rolling down the hill, a huge white cylinder still spouting the last of its water supply, the thick cables that had helped to hold it together flying into the air and then cracking down again like steel bullwhips, digging runnels in the soft earth that immediately filled up with rushing rainwater.
The Standpipe began to heel over faster and faster, boards and beams ripping apart, splinters jumping and whirling into the air.
The British mines, which in my day were guarded so cautiously by the army, had apparently been tapped off as neatly as those illegal standpipes plugged in by private citizens all along the Claudian aqueduct.
In Gloucestershire people were forbidden to water the garden or wash their cars, and there was talk of standpipes and water rationing.
Blue asterisks showed the positions of standpipes, most of them along the banks of the Thames.
They stopped occasionally to drink from the standpipes that dripped into basins by the side of the path, or to rest in the shade of tall stones, great red boulders shot through with streaks of gold and black.
It could rain all it wanted during the winter, but given just three days of good old heartwarming sunshine in July and these jokers would start leaping up and down, and tearing their hair, and sticking in meters and standpipes, and demanding that people should save water by cutting down on their bathing and putting bricks in their water closet cisterns .