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PIPE BOWL [15 records]

Record 1 2025-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

While crack users prefer a straight skinny pipe, fentanyl users generally opt for a "bubble pipe" with a bulb at the end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

pipe bowl : an item in the "Personal Gear" class of the "Personal Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

fourneau de pipe : objet de la classe «Articles personnels» de la catégorie «Objets personnels».

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
CONT

What differentiates a regular tomahawk from a pipe tomahawk is its head, which consists of a cutting edge on one side and a pipe bowl on the other. Pipe tomahawks could be used for smoking and chopping when necessary, but they were usually more symbolic than practical.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones
CONT

La pipe tomahawk servait à de nombreux usages. Son manche en bois creux et le fourneau de pipe d'un côté de la tête permettaient de s'en servir comme pipe de cérémonie, alors que l'autre côté était muni d'une lame, transformant cet objet en arme d'un revers du poignet.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chutes, Spouts and Conveyors
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
CONT

The conventional solid bowl centrifuge... consists of an outer bullet-shaped bowl that rotates at high speed. The sludge is pumped through a central pipe into this rotating bowl and because of centrifugal force, this sludge hugs the inside walls of the bowl. The heavier solids will sink to the bottom... It is necessary to remove the sludge to make the operation successful and... this process is accomplished by the... screw conveyor, that is placed inside the machine and rotates only slightly slower than the bowl.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Convoyeurs et goulottes (Manutention)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
CONT

Les machines les plus utilisées sur les boues résiduaires de traitement d'eau sont les décanteuses continues à axe horizontal. [...] Elles comportent essentiellement un bol cylindro-conique ou conique à axe horizontal tournant à grande vitesse à l'intérieur duquel tourne, à une vitesse légèrement différente, une vis hélicoïdale d'extraction.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles
DEF

Unburned and partially burned tobacco caked in the bowl of a pipe.

OBS

Ex.: He knocked the heel of his pipe on the palm of his hand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur
DEF

Résidu au fond d'une pipe.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles
DEF

Metal tool used for pressing down tobacco during burning in the pipe bowl to the right compression for combustion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur
DEF

Instrument qui sert à tasser légèrement la cendre du foyer ou le tabac lors du bourrage de la pipe.

Spanish

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Record 7 2001-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles
OBS

The two main points to be observed in this operation are to ream the pipe walls and the bottom of the bowl with perfect evenness... and to reduce the cake to 1/16th of an inch, about the thickness of a penny.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur
OBS

À l'aide d'une lame mince et bien affûtée, un grattoir par exemple, faire sauter la croûte qui s'est formée en commençant par le haut du fourneau. En principe, il ne faut pas aller jusqu'au bois mais laisser une épaisseur de un ou deux millimètres de carbone.

Spanish

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Record 8 2001-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles
OBS

A carbon deposit, which insulate the bowl from the heat of the burning tobacco, has to be formed and this should take place naturally in the course of smoking the pipe ten to twelve times.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur
OBS

Il s'agit de conserver autant que possible le bois de bruyère [...] et, pour cela, de le couvrir avec une couche de charbon protectrice provenant de la combustion du tabac.

Spanish

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Record 9 2000-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles
DEF

The slender part of a tobacco pipe between the bowl and the bit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur
DEF

Ensemble du ou des conduits par lesquels passe la fumée, située entre la tête et l'embout.

Key term(s)
  • pied de la pipe

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

enough tobacco, etc. to fill [a pipe] bowl.

OBS

bowl : the hollowed-out part of a... smoking pipe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Quantité de tabac, d'opium, etc. qu'on peut mettre dans le fourneau d'une pipe.

Spanish

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Record 11 1997-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plumbing Fixtures
DEF

A fixed bowl or basin with running water and drain pipe for washing the hands and face.

DEF

A wash basin with its necessary fittings, especially one set in place and supplied with running water and a waste pipe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils sanitaires
DEF

Dispositif de toilette fixe, à hauteur de table, avec cuvette, robinets d'eau courante et système de vidange.

OBS

On distingue les lavabos individuels, les lavabos doubles (à deux vasques) et les lavabos collectifs (circulaires ou en bande); les petits lavabos destinés aux W.C., sont dénommés «lave-mains».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aparatos sanitarios
DEF

Recipiente para lavarse la cara y las manos; [...]

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Record 12 1994-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plumbing Fixtures
CONT

... notice that there is a small refill tube which feeds into the overflow pipe. During the refilling process, water passes through this tube and into the overflow pipe, and thence to the closet bowl trap. The purpose of this refill tube is to ensure replacement of water in the trap and it is essential that the water in the trap be replaced as a safeguard against sewer gases entering the room through the water closet bowl.

OBS

Figure - flush tank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils sanitaires
CONT

On peut voir [...] un petit tube de remplissage relié au tuyau de trop-plein. Pendant le remplissage, l'eau passe dans ce tube puis dans le trop-plein pour aller se déverser dans le siphon de la cuvette et assurer la garde d'eau qui empêchera les émanations d'égout de remonter dans la pièce.

Spanish

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Record 13 1985-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles
DEF

a Turkish tobacco pipe having a clay or meerschaum bowl and a long stem with a mouthpiece often of amber.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur
DEF

pipe turque à long tuyau.

Spanish

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Record 14 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur

Spanish

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Record 15 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smoker's Articles

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles de fumeur

Spanish

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