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P0323300 (pīp)n.1. a. A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.b. A section or piece of such a tube.2. a. A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.b. An amount of smoking material, such as tobacco, needed to fill the bowl of a pipe; a pipeful.3. Informal a. A tubular part or organ of the body.b. pipes The passages of the human respiratory system.4. Abbr. p.a. A large wine cask, especially one having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).b. This volume as a unit of liquid measure.5. Music a. A tubular wind instrument, such as a flute.b. Any of the tubes in an organ.c. pipes A small wind instrument, consisting of tubes of different lengths bound together.d. pipes A bagpipe.6. pipes Informal The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.7. A birdcall.8. Nautical A whistle used for signaling crew members: a boatswain's pipe.9. Geology a. A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.b. One of the vertical veins of eruptive origin in which diamonds are found in South Africa.10. Geology An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.11. Metallurgy A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.v. piped, pip·ing, pipes v.tr.1. a. To convey (liquid or gas) by means of pipes.b. To convey as if by pipes, especially to transmit by wire or cable: piped music into the store.2. To provide with pipes or connect with pipes.3. a. To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.b. To lead by playing on pipes.4. Nautical a. To signal (crew members) with a boatswain's pipe.b. To receive aboard or mark the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe.5. To utter in a shrill reedy tone.6. To furnish (a garment or fabric) with piping.7. To force through a pastry tube, as frosting onto a cake.8. Slang To take a look at; notice.v.intr.1. To play on a pipe.2. To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.3. To chirp or whistle, as a bird does.4. Nautical To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.5. Metallurgy To develop conical cavities during solidification.Phrasal Verbs: pipe down Slang To stop talking; be quiet. pipe up To speak up.

[Middle English, from Old English pīpe, from Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pīpāre, to chirp.]

pipe down

vb (intr, adverb) informal to stop talking, making noise, etc

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pipe down - become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten, hushsilence, still, hush, hush up, quieten, shut up - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"change intensity - increase or decrease in intensity

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smettere di parlare

pipe down

To become quiet and calm; to stop being loud or boisterous. Often said as a command. OK, class, pipe down! Let's begin our lesson, shall we? We piped down when we realized he was trying to tell us something important.See also: down, pipe

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to become quiet; to cease making noise; to shut up. (Especially as a rude command.) Pipe down! I'm trying to sleep. Come on! Pipe down and get back to work!See also: down, pipe

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Stop talking, be quiet, as in I wish you children would pipe down. This idiom is also used as an imperative, as in Pipe down! We want to listen to the opera. It comes from the navy, where the signal for all hands to turn in was sometimes sounded on a whistle or pipe. By 1900 it had been transferred to more general use. See also: down, pipe

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v. Slang To stop talking; become quiet: Pipe down—I'm trying to sleep!See also: down, pipe

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in. to become quiet; to cease making noise; to shut up. (Especially as a rude command.) Pipe down! I’m trying to sleep. See also: down, pipe

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verb become quiet or quieter

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