Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pipe, usually of thin sheet metal, used to conduct smoke or fumes from a stove into a chimney flue.
- noun A man's tall silk hat.
- noun Informal A pathway for transmitting information higher in a hierarchy while bypassing intervening levels that remain uninformed about this information.
- transitive verb To transmit (information) up in a hierarchy by means of a stovepipe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A metal pipe for conducting smoke, gases, etc., from a stove to a chimney-flue.
- noun Same as
stovepipe hat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
- noun [Slang, U.S.] A tall silk hat with a brim, worn commonly as an item of formal dress by gentlemen in the late 1800's.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Sheet-metal tubing used as achimney for a stove orfurnace . - noun A channel for body of information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties which might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from access to it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
- noun chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue
Etymologies
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Examples
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That is what we call a stovepipe tornado, where you see that straight column kind of up and down.
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Steampunk is popular simply because brass ray-guns, airships, Analytical Engines, and bitchin 'stovepipe toppers with built-in daguerrotype cameras are just flat-out cool.
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The stovepipe from the kitchen range ran through it, giving it ample warmth.
The Second Chance 1910
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And then you get to something a little bit bigger than that, then you get this stovepipe, which is straight up and down onto the ground, a very dangerous, probably 130, 140-mile-per-hour tornado.
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The soldiers in the field who used the rocket launcher called it other things such as the "stovepipe" and the "Buck Rogers gun."
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Here are some of the key developments in four industries that have left us with this "stovepipe" approach to regulation.
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A front page Washington Post article in late March quoted Nicholson as saying each of the NATO countries operating in the south had taken a "stovepipe" approach to development, rather than the regional approach favoured by the U.S. Some in Canada took this as criticism of how Canada had run its aid programs in Kandahar.
American Brig.-Gen. John Nicholson "optimistic and unashamedly so." membrain 2009
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A front page Washington Post article in late March quoted Nicholson as saying each of the NATO countries operating in the south had taken a "stovepipe" approach to development, rather than the regional approach favoured by the U.S. Some in Canada took this as criticism of how Canada had run its aid programs in Kandahar.
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In short, Miller was the "stovepipe" (a Sy Hersh phrase for unvetted intelligence) for disinformation from the Administration and Ahmed Chalabi about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction on to the front page of the Times in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and just afterwards.
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One retired Army officer describes the first stage of the war as having been conducted "stovepipe" fashion, with separate chains of command for each service.
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