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