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Tailpipe

Definition: Tailpipe

Tailpipe

Noun

1. A pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definition: Tailpipe

DomainDefinition

Mechanical Engineering

Exhaust pipe of turboprop or turboshaft. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: Tailpipe

Specialty definitions using "tailpipe": evaporative emissionFederal Motor Vehicle Control ProgramMUFFLER INSTALLER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tailpipe

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yeah, and we're not going to fall for a banana in the tailpipe. (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tailpipe

DomainTitle

Books

  • Implementing Tailpipe Tests: What Factors Influence States to Respond to National Environmental Policy Goals? (The Environment, Problems and Solutio) (reference)

  • Tailpipe Trucker (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tailpipe

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

In addition to the leaded fuel ban, products which “clean up” tailpipe emissions could also cause a potential increase in the market for fuel additives. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tailpipe

"Tailpipe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tailpipe" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tailpipe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

flame tailpipe

13

tailpipe

10

bods hot tailpipe

6

extension tailpipe

5

expander tailpipe

2

flamethrower tailpipe

2

tailpipe tip

2

flamethrowers tailpipe

2
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Modern Translation: Tailpipe

Language Translations for "tailpipe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

смукателна тръба на помпа, ауспух (exhaust). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

'"管. (various references)

   

Danish

  

udstødningsrør (exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, gas manifold, tail pipe). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tail pipe, uitlaatpijp (exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, gas manifold, tail pipe). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

poistoputki, imuputki (draft tube, draught tube, siphon). (various references)

   

French

  

tuyau de sortie, tuyau d'échappement (tail pipe), tube de décharge, buse de sortie (tail pipe). (various references)

   

German

  

Strahlrohr (jet tube), Saugrohr (suction tube), Endrohr (mouthpiece, piping end), Auslaßrohr, Abgasrohr (breeching, flue connector, primary flue, tail pipe, vent connector). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωλήνας εκροής (discharge pipe, downpipe, funnel, nozzle, pouring spout, spill pipe, spout, waste pipe), σωλήνας εξόδου, σωλήνας εξαγωγής (eduction pipe, tail pipe), σωλήνας απαγωγής. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ugello di uscita (tail pipe). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailpipetay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tubo de saída, tubo de escape traseiro (tail pipe), tubo de escape (exhaust manifold, exhaust pipe, gas manifold, tail pipe). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выхлопная труба (manifold). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

los compuestos de plomo alcohilo se transforman en halogenuros de plomo y en oxihalogenados de plomo en los motores de combustión interna y del 70 al 80% de este plomo se emite en forma de partículas a través del tubo de escape (and 70 to 80 percent of that lead is emitted as particulate matter from the tailpipe, lead alkyl compounds are converted to lead halides and lead oxyhalogenates in the internal combustion engine). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utloppsrör (eduction pipe), slutrör. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tailpipe

Derivations

Words beginning with "tailpipe": tailpipes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tailpipe"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tailpipe" (pronounced tā"lpī'p)
3-p ī' pbagpipe.

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Anagrams: Tailpipe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-p-p-t"

-2 letters: aplite, lappet, tipple.

-3 letters: appel, apple, leapt, lepta, litai, palet, palpi, pepla, petal, pieta, pilea, pilei, pipal, pipet, pipit, plait, plate, pleat, telia, tepal.

-4 letters: alit, ilea, ilia, late, lati, leap, lept, lipa, lipe, lite, pail, pale, palp, pate, peal, peat, pelt, pial, pile, pili, pipe, pita, plat, plea, plie, tael, tail, tale.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-p-p-t"
 

+1 letter: tailpipes.

 

+2 letters: epitaphial, participle.

 

+3 letters: applicative, participles.

 

+4 letters: antiepilepsy, appetizingly, appositively, inappositely, interlapping, livetrapping, popularities, postimperial, precipitable.

 

+5 letters: antiepileptic, appealability, applicatively, epileptically, epiphytically, palpabilities, pentaploidies, precapitalist, precipitantly, precipitately, prepositional, proprietorial, reapplication.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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