steel pipe

collocation in English

meaningsofsteelandpipe

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steel
noun[U]
uk
/stiːl/us
/stiːl/
a strong metal that is a mixture of iron and carbon, used for making things that need a strong structure, especially vehicles ...
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pipe
noun[C]
uk
/paɪp/us
/paɪp/
a tube inside which liquid or gas flows from one place ...
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(Definition ofsteelandpipefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The gas industry has agreed to bring forward orders forsteelpipeand to advance certain work on transmission and distribution mains.
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The pipe was of cast iron and is now being replaced by asteelpipe.
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In my constituency, in three or four months, we have had an announcement of 609 redundancies, and about 280 at thesteelpipeplants.
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How many hundreds of millions of pounds worth of thatsteelpipeare we having to import?
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It means that it is asteelpipeinstead of a copper one.
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It is estimated that in the present year demand forsteelpipewill be of the order of 90,000 to 100,000 tonnes for well casing and 200,000 tonnes for pipelines.
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In the basement of a house that was being rebuilt, the employer ran an electric cable down asteelpipewhich was thus used as a conduit.
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If the cells were full, a prisoner might be buried alive, with asteelpipein his mouth to allow him to breathe.
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Battens were made of wood originally, but today they are typicallysteelpipe.
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It consists of a heavysteelpipewhich is closed at one end and has handles welded onto the sides.
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Black lacqueredsteelpipeis the most widely used pipe material for fire sprinklers and natural gas.
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Asteelpipe(casing) is placed in the hole, to provide structural integrity to the newly drilled well bore.
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Made ofsteelpipeof various diameters and thicknesses, the structure weighs 2,700 tonnes.
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In the hole, asteelpipewas installed from which about 1.5 litres of karst water flowed per second.
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The remaining 78 mi consist of pre-stressed 72in cm diameter concrete pipe andsteelpipe.
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Asteelpipeor boiler tube pilot replaced the original wooden type of cowcatcher.
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Support poles were traditionally constructed of wood;steelpipeis more common today.
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The company's activities include melting iron and steel smelting, seamlesssteelpipe, machinery manufacturing, power generation, international trade, and others.
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