PIPE

pipe, pipage, piping

(noun) a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

pipe, tobacco pipe

(noun) a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

pipe

(noun) a tubular wind instrument

pipe, tube

(noun) a hollow cylindrical shape

shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe

(verb) utter a shrill cry

pipe

(verb) trim with piping; “pipe the skirt”

pipe

(verb) play on a pipe; “pipe a tune”

pipe

(verb) transport by pipeline; “pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Proper noun

Pipe

A surname.

An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.

Etymology

Noun

pipe (plural pipes)

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

(musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. [from 14th c.]

The key or sound of the voice. [from 16th c.]

A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird. [from 18th c.]

Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.]

(especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.

A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. [from 14th c.]

(slang) A man's penis.

Meanings relating to a container.

A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. [from 14th c.]

The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun. [from 14th c.]

Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.

Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping. [from 15th c.]

A type of pasta similar to macaroni.

(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia. [from 19th c.]

(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.

(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. [from 17th c.]

(Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies. [from 19th c.]

Meanings relating to computing.

(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. [from 20th c.]

(computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. [from 20th c.]

(computing, typography) The character pipe. [from 20th c.]

Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

(smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe. [from 16th c.]

(Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (tube): See tube

• (typography): bar, vertical bar, vertical line, virgule (marking metrical feet)

• (lava channel within a volcano): pan (S. Africa, obsolete)

Hyponyms

• (smoking implement): briar

Verb

pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)

(ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.

(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

(intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.

(transitive) To dab moisture away from.

(transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

(transitive, computing, chiefly, Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.

(transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).

(transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

(transitive, slang, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.

(transitive, slang, dated) To see.

Synonym: Thesaurus:see

Source: Wiktionary

Pipe, n. Etym: [AS. pipe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.]

1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] Shak.

6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. Tennyson.

7. pl.

Definition: The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

8. (Mining)

Definition: An elongated body or vein of ore.

9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. Mozley & W.

10. (Naut.)

Definition: A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

11. Etym: [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.]

Definition: A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building.

– Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe.

– Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.] -- Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; -- called also pipe privet.

– Pipe wrench, or Pipetongs, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it.

– To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the American Indians.

Pipe, v. i.

1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced. Matt. xi. 17.

2. (Naut.)

Definition: To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. "Oft in the piping shrouds." Wordsworth.

4. (Metal.)

Definition: To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

Pipe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piped; p. pr. & vb. n. Piping.]

1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. W. Irving.

2. (Naut.)

Definition: To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft. Marryat.

3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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