piping
IPA: pˈaɪpɪŋ
noun
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
adjective
- High-pitched.
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Examples of "piping" in Sentences
- This piping is easily heard by _any_ one not actually deaf, and not the least danger of its being taken for any humming; in fact, it is not to be mistaken for anything else _but piping_, even when you hear it for the first time.
- Venting a fixture when the drain piping is all under the floor, such as a toilet, sometimes requires that the vent be connected to the horizontal drainpipe, when there is not enough room to stack a tee in the vertical riser pipe to the fixture.
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