pipe
noun
[ pʌɪp ]
• a tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances.
Similar:
tube,
conduit,
hose,
main,
duct,
line,
channel,
canal,
conveyor,
pipeline,
drain,
tubing,
piping,
siphon,
cylinder,
fistula,
• a device for smoking tobacco, consisting of a narrow tube made from wood, clay, etc. with a bowl at one end in which the tobacco is burned, the smoke from which is drawn into the mouth.
• "a smell of pipe tobacco"
Similar:
tobacco pipe,
briar (pipe),
meerschaum,
clay pipe,
churchwarden,
cutty,
dudeen,
calabash,
calumet,
chibouk,
hookah,
narghile,
calean,
hubble-bubble,
bong,
chillum,
• a wind instrument consisting of a single tube with holes along its length that are covered by the fingers to produce different notes.
• "the tone of a reed pipe"
• a command which causes the output from one routine to be the input for another.
• a cask for wine, especially as a measure equal to two hogsheads, usually equivalent to 105 gallons (about 477 litres).
• "a fresh pipe of port"
pipe
verb
• convey (water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances) through a pipe or pipes.
• "water from the lakes is piped to Manchester"
• play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.
• "he believed he'd heard music—a tune being piped"
• (of a bird) sing in a high or shrill voice.
• "outside at the back a curlew piped"
Similar:
chirp,
cheep,
chirrup,
twitter,
chatter,
warble,
trill,
peep,
sing,
shrill,
squeal,
squeak,
• decorate (clothing or soft furnishings) with thin cord covered in fabric and inserted into a seam.
• arrange (food, particularly icing or cream) in decorative lines or patterns.
• "she had been piping cream round a flan"
• propagate (a pink or similar plant) by taking a cutting at the joint of a stem.
Origin:
Old English pīpe ‘musical tube’, pīpian ‘play a pipe’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijp and German Pfeife, based on Latin pipare ‘to peep, chirp’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French piper ‘to chirp, squeak’.
