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.
- 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.
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