1. (noun)pipe a windinstrument 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
2. (noun)pipe any long tube or hollowbody of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc
3. (noun)pipe a smallbowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances
4. (noun)pipe a passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions
9. (noun)pipe 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
10. (noun)pipe a boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it
11. (noun)pipe a cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains
15. (verb)pipe to become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel
16. (verb)pipe to perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe
17. (verb)pipe to call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle
18. (verb)pipe to furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building
Definitions of 'pipe'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. pipe [common] Idiomatically, one's connection to the Internet; in
context, the expansion “bit pipe” is understood. A “fat
pipe” is a line with T1 or higher capacity. A person with a 28.8
modemmight be heard to complain “I need a bigger
pipe”.