单词 | organ pipe |
释义 | organ pipen. 1. Any one of the pipes of a musical organ. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe pipea1387 organ pipe1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 369 Orgon pype [?a1475 Winch. Orgone pype], or pype of an orgon, cantes, ydraula. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 89 Organe pipis, Aule, fistule organorum. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/1 Organ pype, flevte dorgre. 1588 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 224 The orgayne pypes is in number xij. score and xv. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 98 The Thunder (That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd The name of Prosper. View more context for this quotation 1645 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 52 Received of Captain White, for the organ-pipes, 400. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxvii. 314 Having..a bucked Ruff, raised, furrowed, and ridged, with Ponting [sic] Sticks of the shape and fashion of small Organ Pipes. 1712 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 50 Out of these Passages also there came a whistling Noise, like that of an Organ Pipe. 1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 141 His reasoning has fully shown the analogy between the voice and the voix humaine and regal organ-pipes. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xvi, in Poems (new ed.) 74 Near gilded organpipes..slept Saint Cecily. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 856/1 Organ pipes are of two sorts, mouth pipes and reed pipes, of each..there are several species. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 399 The shell of the ‘roaring buckie’..has its particular resonance tone, as an organ-pipe has. 1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xxii. 522 The efforts of these men were directed toward understanding flutes; organ pipes;..bugles; and other wind instruments. 2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 146/1 Turning cones..are used to open or close the top opening of certain kinds of organ pipes. 2. Extended uses. Things resembling the pipes of an organ. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > firearm resembling organ-pipes organ gun?1470 organ1495 organ pipe1539 1539 W. Grey Let. 4 May in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/6/74) f. 96 That I may have powder, bows arros and bow streynges & tembur to stoke vij orgon pyppes. ?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 159/1 Organe pipes of brasse... Shott of organe pipes. 1594 H. Barwick Breefe Disc. Weapons 10 b Fauconits, Robinets and Organpipes, all these be but light peeces. b. More fully organ-pipe cactus. A large cactus of the south-western U.S. and Mexico that has clumps of upright, rounded stems, Stenocereus thurberi. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > giant cactus pitahaya1709 organ pipe1854 saguaro1856 organ cactus1869 1854 Colburn's United Service Jrnl. Feb. 274 A specimen of [cactus]..which from its shape is commonly called ‘the organ pipe’ rose to the height of about twenty feet. 1908 W. T. Hornaday Camp-fires on Desert 352 The mines are quite the northern limit of the organ-pipe cactus. 1936 Ecology 17 115 A gauge was placed here because this location is the northern limit of the distribution of Lemaireocereus thurberi or organ pipe cactus, on this route. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iv. v. 276 We began to see the ghostly shapes of yucca cactus and organpipe on all sides. 1977 Times 21 Apr. 16/8 Organ-pipe cacti still grow alongside..golf course greens [in Arizona]. 2002 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 10 Nov. viii. 14/1 Although Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument..in southwest Arizona is named for the saguaro's squatter, skinny-armed cousin, it's actually easier to spot saguaros there than organ pipes. c. Each of a set of closely placed basaltic columns resembling the pipes of an organ. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > basalt columns orguea1722 organ pipe1861 1861 E. T. Holland in Peaks Passes & Glaciers 2nd Ser. I. 68 High up in the cliffs of this mountain is a very singular-looking group of red basaltic organ-pipes, arranged with great regularity of structure. 1977 Times 3 Nov. (N. Ireland Suppl.) p. ii/6 The Giant's Causeway..a geological formation so remarkable that its hexagonal ‘organ pipes’ were once thought to have been carved by man. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > pleated fabric > pleat plait1440 pinchc1450 plightc1450 pleata1529 tuck1532 lipea1600 box pleat1857 accordion pleat1884 organ pipe1890 knife-pleat1891 sunburst1897 pin tuck1902 knife-plait1911 1890 in Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Organ-pipe, in costume, a large piping; a rounded flute. Compounds organ-pipe cactus n. see sense 2b. organ-pipe coral n. a tropical coral of the genus Tubipora (order Stolonifera), which forms arrays of narrow calcareous tubes linked by transverse plates; cf. earlier organ coral n. at organ n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > concretion or petrifaction > [noun] > coral > specific coral-stone1607 mushroom stone1668 starry stone1677 mushroom coral1681 stone-mushroom1687 organ-pipe coral1833 Neptune's cup1839 1833 G. A. Mantell Wonders Geol. (1838) II. 478 Tubipora: Organ-pipe coral. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. v. 103 The organ-pipe coral (Tubipora musica) is one of these Alcyonarians, and a beautiful colony it is, a group of red tubes bound together cross-wise at intervals. 1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) iv. 152/1 The tropical Indo-Pacific organ-pipe coral,..which belongs to another group of octocorallians, is differently organized [compared with gorgonians]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1440 |
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