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Definition of 'pipe'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) pipe
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, etc.

2.  pipe
a tube of wood, clay, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.

3.  pipe
a quantity, as of tobacco, filling the bowl of such a smoking utensil.

4.  pipe
a musical wind instrument, as a flute or oboe, constructed of a single tube.

5.  pipe
a small recorder held with one hand while the other beats a drum.

6.  pipe
one of the tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced; flue pipe or reed pipe.

7.  pipe
pipes,

8.  pipe
pipes,

9.  pipe
a high-pitched whistle used by a boastswain for giving signals.

10.  pipe
the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.

11.  pipe
pipes, the human vocal cords or the voice, esp. as used in singing.

12.  pipe
a tubular organ or passage.

13.  pipe
Usu., pipes. the human respiratory passage.

14.  pipe
any of various tubular or cylindrical objects or natural formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.

15.  pipe
a cylindrical vein or body of ore.

16.  pipe
(in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.

17. (v.i.) pipe
to play on a pipe.

18.  pipe
to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.

19.  pipe
to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe.

20.  pipe
to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.

21. (v.t.) pipe
to convey by or as if by pipes.

22.  pipe
to supply with pipes.

23.  pipe
to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.

24.  pipe
to summon, order, etc., by sounding a boatswain's pipe or whistle.

25.  pipe
to bring, lead, etc., by or as if by playing on a pipe:
to pipe dancers.

26.  pipe
to utter in a shrill tone:
to pipe a command.

27.  pipe
to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.

28.  pipe
to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.

29.  pipe
to convey by an electrical wire or cable:
to pipe in music.

30.  pipe
Slang. to stop talking; be quiet.

31.  pipe
pipe up,

32.  pipe
to make oneself heard, esp. as to assert oneself; speak up.

33. (n.) pipe
a large cask, of varying capacity, esp. for wine or oil.

34.  pipe
such a cask as a measure of liquid capacity, equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads, or 126 gallons.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < MF, ult. same as pipe¹)

Definition of 'pipe'

Princeton's WordNet

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

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

3. (noun) pipe, tube
a hollow cylindrical shape

4. (noun) pipe
a tubular wind instrument

5. (verb) organ pipe, pipe, pipework
the flues and stops on a pipe organ

6. (verb) shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe
utter a shrill cry

7. (verb) pipe
transport by pipeline
"pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"

8. (verb) pipe
play on a pipe
"pipe a tune"

9. (verb) pipe
trim with piping
"pipe the skirt"

Definition of 'pipe'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) pipe
a long hollow tube through which liquid or gas flows
a leak in the main water pipe to the house; a length of copper pipe

2.  pipe
a thin hollow tube with a bowl at one end, used for smoking
to smoke a pipe

3.  pipe
a hollow tube through which musical sound is produced
a shepherd playing his pipe; organ pipes

4. (verb) pipe
to send liquid or gas to a place using a pipe
The oil is piped from Alaska.

5.  pipe
to send sound from one place to another
music being piped into the elevators

Definition of 'pipe'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) pipe
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

2. (noun) pipe
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. (noun) pipe
a small bowl 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

5. (noun) pipe
the key or sound of the voice

6. (noun) pipe
the peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird

7. (noun) pipe
the bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow

8. (noun) pipe
an elongated body or vein of ore

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

12. (verb) pipe
to play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music

13. (verb) pipe
to call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain

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

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 modem might be heard to complain “I need a bigger pipe”.

Translation of 'pipe'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a tube, usually made of metal, earthenware etc, through which water, gas etc can flow a water pipe; a drainpipe.
Afrikaans: pyp	Arabic: أنْبوب	Bulgarian: тръба
Brazilian: cano	Czech: roura, trubka	German: das Rohr
Danish: rør; -rør	Greek: σωλήνας	Spanish: tubería
Estonian: toru	Farsi: لوله	Finnish: putki
French: tuyau	Hebrew: צִינוֹר	Hindi: नलिका
Croatian: cijev	Hungarian: cső(vezeték)	Indonesian: pipa
Icelandic: pípa, rör	Italian: tubo	Japanese: 管
Korean: 파이프	Lithuanian: vamzdis	Latvian: caurule
Malay: paip	Dutch: buis	Norwegian: rør, ledning
Polish: rura	Persian: لوله	Pashto: شپيلندوى، بين مار
Portuguese: cano	Romanian: ţeavă; conductă; tub	Russian: труба
Slovak: rúra, potrubie	Slovenian: cev	Serbian: cev
Swedish: [lednings]rör, [rör]ledni	Thai: ท่อ	Turkish: boru
Taiwanese: 管子	Ukrainian: труба	Urdu: پائپ، نالي
Vietnamese: ống dẫn	Chinese: 管子
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