Pipe

[paɪp]

Definition

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

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

(noun.) a tubular wind instrument.

(noun.) a hollow cylindrical shape.

(verb.) trim with piping; 'pipe the skirt'.

(verb.) play on a pipe; 'pipe a tune'.

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

Typist: Margery--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

(n.) The key or sound of the voice.

(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

(n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

(v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

Editor: Maynard

Definition

n. a musical wind instrument consisting of a long tube: any long tube: a tube of clay &c. with a bowl at one end for smoking tobacco: a pipeful: the note of a bird: a cask containing two hogsheads.—v.i. to play upon a pipe: to whistle to chirp: to make a shrill noise.—v.t. to play on a pipe: to call with a pipe as on board ships: to give forth shrill notes: to supply with pipes to convey by pipes.—ns. Pip′age conveyance or distribution by pipes; Pipe′-case a box softly lined to protect a pipe; Pipe′clay a fine white plastic clay very like kaolin but containing a larger percentage of silica used for making tobacco-pipes and fine earthenware.—v.t. to whiten with pipeclay: (slang) to blot out as accounts.—adj. Piped (pīpt) tubulous or fistulous.—ns. Pipe′-fish a genus of fishes in the same order as the seahorse having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates the head long and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout hence the name; Pipe′-lay′er; Pipe′-lay′ing the laying down of pipes for gas water &c.; Pipe′-off′ice formerly an office in the Court of Exchequer in which the clerk of the pipe made out crown-land leases; Pip′er; Pipe′-roll a pipe-like roll the earliest among the records of the Exchequer; Pipe′-stā′ple the stalk of a tobacco-pipe: a stalk of grass; Pipe′-stick the wooden tube used as the stem of some tobacco-pipes; Pipe′-tongs an implement for holding or turning metal pipes or pipe-fittings; Pipe′-tree the lilac; Pipe′-wine (Shak.) wine drawn from the cask as distinguished from bottled wine; Pipe′-wrench a wrench with one movable jaw both so shaped as to bite together when placed on a pipe and rotated round it.—Pipe down to dismiss from muster as a ship's company; Pipe off to watch a house or person for purposes of theft; Pipe one's eye to weep.—Drunk as a piper very drunk; Pay the piper to bear the expense.

Typist: Sharif

Unserious Contents or Definition

Pipes seen in dreams, are representatives of peace and comfort after many struggles. Sewer, gas, and such like pipes, denotes unusual thought and prosperity in your community. Old and broken pipe, signifies ill health and stagnation of business. To dream that you smoke a pipe, denotes that you will enjoy the visit of an old friend, and peaceful settlements of differences will also take place.

Typed by Elroy

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