pipe
IPA: pˈaɪp
noun
- Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (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. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- 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.
- 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.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (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.
- Meanings relating to computing.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (computing, typography) The character [[Unsupported titles/`vert`#Translingual||]].
- 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.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.
- (finance) Acronym of private investment in public equity.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) 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) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (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 ([[Unsupported titles/`vert`#Translingual||]]) 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 man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To see.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
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Examples of "pipe" in Sentences
- It's a pipe and a vaporizer.
- The water was waiting in the pipe.
- The tuned pipe is attached to the end of the exhaust pipe.
- My first one in the pipe is a no. 4, followed by 2 no. 5's.
- He lives in a pipe in the upstairs water closet of the Palace.
- A diverting inlet diverts a small portion of the water from the pipe.
- They find the leaky pipe, and Carls goes upstairs to shut off the water.
- I would hypothesize that water was frozen and made the pipe start leaking.
- The tighter a dog is in the pipe, the more that air flow will be constricted.
- An opium pipe is a pipe designed for the vaporization and inhalation of opium.
- The hot water pipe have been insulated and in some cases fitted with heating devices.
- Says Jeff Blumenfeld, editor of Expedition News, "An-Tiki has given new meaning to the term 'pipe dream.'"
- That is, you provide what we call the pipe, broadband, but now for those who use it want to get it for either free or at a very low price?
- And at the time, authorities there, the sheriff's office said that they found some what they described as pipe-bomb-like devices in their vehicle.
- With respect to your initial reader's implementation while read line < $pipe it seems to be a valid piece (meaning the redirection is pertinent to the "read", now the while loop; where the pipe would have been opened once.)
- The round pipe, or _the pipe_, as it seems, _par excellence_, to be termed by English drainers, though one of the latest, if not the last form of tiles introduced in England, has become altogether the most popular among scientific men, and is generally used in all works conducted under the charge of the Land