Definitions for pipepaɪp

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

pipepaɪp(n.; v.)piped, pip•ing.

(n.)a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, etc.
a tube of wood, clay, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
a quantity, as of tobacco, filling the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
a musical wind instrument, as a flute or oboe, constructed of a single tube. a small recorder held with one hand while the other beats a drum. one of the tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced; flue pipe or reed pipe. pipes, pipes,
Category: Music and Dance
Ref: bagpipe. 1; panpipe.
a high-pitched whistle used by a boastswain for giving signals.
Category: Navy
the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
Category: Zoology
pipes, the human vocal cords or the voice, esp. as used in singing.
Category: Informal
a tubular organ or passage. Usu., pipes. the human respiratory passage.
Category: Informal
any of various tubular or cylindrical objects or natural formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
Category: Geology
a cylindrical vein or body of ore. (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
Category: Mining
(v.i.)to play on a pipe.
Category: Music and Dance
to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe.
to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.
Category: Nautical, Navy
(v.t.)to convey by or as if by pipes.
Category: Civil Engineering
to supply with pipes.
Category: Civil Engineering
to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
Category: Music and Dance
to summon, order, etc., by sounding a boatswain's pipe or whistle.
Category: Navy
to bring, lead, etc., by or as if by playing on a pipe:
to pipe dancers.
to utter in a shrill tone:
to pipe a command.
to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
Category: Clothing
to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
Category: Cooking
to convey by an electrical wire or cable:
to pipe in music.
Category: Informal, Electricity and Magnetism
pipe down,Slang. to stop talking; be quiet.
Category: Verb Phrase, Status (usage)
pipe up, to make oneself heard, esp. as to assert oneself; speak up.
Category: Verb Phrase

Origin of pipe:

bef. 1000; ME, OE pīpe musical pipe, tube (c. G Pfeife, ON pīpa) < VL *pīpa, der. of L pīpāre to chirp, play a pipe

pipepaɪp(n.)

a large cask, of varying capacity, esp. for wine or oil.
such a cask as a measure of liquid capacity, equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads, or 126 gallons.
Category: Weights and Measures

Origin of pipe:

1350–1400; ME < MF, ult. same as pipe1

Princeton's WordNet

pipe, tobacco pipe(noun)
a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
pipe, pipage, piping(noun)
a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
pipe, tube(noun)
a hollow cylindrical shape
pipe(noun)
a tubular wind instrument
organ pipe, pipe, pipework(verb)
the flues and stops on a pipe organ
shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe(verb)
utter a shrill cry
pipe(verb)
transport by pipeline
"pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"
pipe(verb)
play on a pipe
"pipe a tune"
pipe(verb)
trim with piping
"pipe the skirt"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

pipe(noun)ɪp
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
pipeɪp
a thin hollow tube with a bowl at one end, used for smoking
to smoke a pipe
pipeɪp
a hollow tube through which musical sound is produced
a shepherd playing his pipe; organ pipes
pipe(verb)ɪp
to send liquid or gas to a place using a pipe
The oil is piped from Alaska.
pipeɪp
to send sound from one place to another
music being piped into the elevators

Wiktionary

pipe(Noun)
A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
pipe(Noun)
A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
pipe(Noun)
A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
pipe(Noun)
A type of pasta, similar to macaroni
pipe(Noun)
Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
pipe(Noun)
A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
pipe(Noun)
A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)
pipe(Noun)
One of the goalposts of the goal.
pipe(Noun)
The character
pipe(Verb)
To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
pipe(Verb)
To install or configure with pipes.
pipe(Verb)
To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
pipe(Verb)
To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
pipe(Verb)
To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
pipe(Verb)
To decorate with piping.
pipe(Verb)
To dab away moisture from.
pipe(Verb)
To shout loudly and at high pitch.
pipe(Verb)
To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character at the command line.
pipe(Noun)
A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
pipe(Noun)
A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
pipe(Noun)
An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
pipe(Noun)
An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

Origin: From pipe, from .

Webster Dictionary

Pipe(noun)
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
Pipe(noun)
any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc
Pipe(noun)
a small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances
Pipe(noun)
a passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions
Pipe(noun)
the key or sound of the voice
Pipe(noun)
the peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird
Pipe(noun)
the bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow
Pipe(noun)
an elongated body or vein of ore
Pipe(noun)
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
Pipe(noun)
a boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it
Pipe(noun)
a cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains
Pipe(verb)
to play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music
Pipe(verb)
to call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain
Pipe(verb)
to emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle
Pipe(verb)
to become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel
Pipe(verb)
to perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe
Pipe(verb)
to call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle
Pipe(verb)
to furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building

The New Hacker's Dictionary

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”.