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Definitions of 'pipe' 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"


Definitions of 'pipe' Webster 1913 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 expansionbit 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”.


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