piping
noun
[ ˈpʌɪpɪŋ ]
• lengths of pipe made of metal, plastic, or other materials.
• thin lines of icing or cream, used to decorate cakes and desserts.
• thin cord covered in fabric, used to decorate clothing or soft furnishings and reinforce seams.
• the action or art of playing a pipe or pipes.
• a cutting of a pink or similar plant taken at a joint.
piping
adjective
• high-pitched.
• "the piping voice of a little girl"
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’.
