windpipe
pronunciation
How to pronounce windpipe in British English:
UK [ˈwɪndpaɪp]
How to pronounce windpipe in American English:
US [ˈwɪndˌpaɪp]
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- Noun:
- membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi
Word Origin
- windpipe (n.)
- "trachea," 1520s, from wind (n.1) in the "breath" sense + pipe (n.1).
Example
- 1. And right now there 's a steel knife in my windpipe
- 2. One is a 9-month-old infant , adopted from korea , who was born without a windpipe and breathes through a hole in her esophagus .
- 3. Cut off that flow of funding and you step on industry 's windpipe and starve the brain of oxygen .
- 4. On venus , sound travels faster , resulting in echoes moving quickly through a person 's windpipe .
- 5. The air is warmed up before passing down the windpipe , where it 's divided at the bottom between two airways called bronchi that lead to either lung .