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pipe
I. \ˈpīp\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pīpa; akin to Old Frisian pīpe pipe, Old Saxon pīpa, Old High German pfīfa, all from a prehistoric West Germanic word derived from (assumed) Vulgar Latin pipa, back-formation from Latin pipare to peep, chirp, of imitative origin like Greek pipos, pippos young bird, Sanskrit pippakā, a kind of bird
1.
a.
(1) : a wind instrument consisting of a tube of straw, reed, wood, or metal (as a flageolet, oboe) — compare panpipe, pitch pipe, shepherd's pipe; specifically : a small fipple flute held in and played by the left hand leaving the right hand free for beating a tabor — called also tabor pipe
(2) : one of the open or closed tubes comprising the stops of a pipe organ — compare flue pipe, reed pipe
(3) : boatswain's pipe
(4) : bagpipe — usually used in plural
b.
(1) : voice, vocal cord — usually used in plural
< a soloist with a powerful set of pipes >
(2) : piping 1
< their voices came in a shallow unison pipe — Time >
< helped him with his first pipes on the flute — H.S.Canby >
2.
a. : a long hollow cylinder (as of metal, clay, concrete, plastic) used for conducting a fluid, gas, or finely divided solid and for structural purposes; typically : metal tubing in standard diameters and lengths threaded at the ends for joining and used for water, steam, and other conduits
b. chiefly dialect : a canal or vessel of the body (as of the respiratory organs) — usually used in plural
< cleared her pipes and began to sing >
c. slang : a coaxial cable used to transmit television or telephone signals
3.
a. : a tubular or cylindrical object, part, or passage: as
(1) : the tubular stem of a plant — compare pipe tree
(2) : burrow
(3) : the hollow part of a pipe key
(4) : blowpipe 4
(5) : isinglass dried in the form of long hollow pieces
(6) : playpipe
b. : a roughly cylindrical and vertical geological formation
< a firn pipe >
< a sand pipe >
as
(1) : an elongated vertical or steeply inclined body of ore
(2) : one of the vertical cylindrical masses of volcanic agglomerate in which diamonds occur in So. Africa
(3) : the eruptive channel opening into the crater of a volcano; also : the filling of such a channel
(4) : the vent of a geyser
c. : a cavity in a casting (as an ingot of steel) due to unequal contraction on solidifying
d. : a small rounded molder's trowel for dressing up concave surfaces
4. : a former department of the British Exchequer charged with drawing up the pipe rolls
5. [Middle English, from Middle French, pipe, cask, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin pippa, alteration of pipa]
a. : a large cask of varying capacity used especially for wine and oil
b. : any of various units of liquid capacity based on the size of a pipe; especially : a unit equal to 2 hogsheads
6.
a. : a device usually consisting of a tube having a bowl at one end and a mouthpiece at the other and used for smoking
< tobacco pipe >
b. : pipeful
7. : any of the channels of a decoy
8.
a. : a distance (as three quarters of a mile) customarily traveled in colonial New York while smoking one pipeful
b. : a distance (as six miles) customarily traveled by voyageurs or dogsledders between rests
9. slang
a. : pipe dream
< might turn in a story about a sea serpent … but I haven't got the nerve to try 'em with a pipe like this — O.Henry >
b. : something easy : snap
< both think acting on the show is a pipe — Newsweek >
c. : something sure : cinch
< a play … that is at least a pipe and as certain to make a fortune for anyone who invests in it as anything reasonably can be — G.S.Kaufman >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: partly from Middle English pipen to play on a pipe, from Old English pīpan, from pīpe, n.; partly from pipe (I)
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to play on a pipe (as a bagpipe)
< we piped to you, and you did not dance — Mt 11:17 (Revised Standard Version) >
b. : to convey orders by signals on a boatswain's pipe
2.
a. : to speak in a high or shrill voice
< a thin call piped from the house, and he turned to wave — Ellen Glasgow >
< his shrill voice piped above the hot volume of American jazz — Scott Fitzgerald >
b. : to emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe : whistle
< wind began to pipe around the stacks, not loud — Warren Eyster >
< tree frogs pipe … before rain — Marjory S. Douglas >
3. slang : weep
4. : to become pipy
5. : to develop cavities in the interior during solidification — used especially of cast steel
transitive verb
1.
a. : to play (a tune) on a pipe (as a bagpipe)
b. : to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe
< a robin … piping a few querulous notes — Washington Irving >
2.
a. : to cause to go or be with pipe music
< men of Scotland who've piped their men into battle — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas >
b.
(1) : to call or direct by the boatswain's pipe
< piped all hands on deck >
(2) : to receive aboard or attend the departure of from a naval vessel with side boys and piping the side
< pipe the admiral aboard >
3. : to make slips or cuttings of for propagation
4. : to trim with piping
< the edge of the white jacket was piped with navy >
5. : to throw water upon from a hydraulic pipe : wash with a pipe
6. : to furnish or equip (as a building) with pipes
7.
a. : to convey by means of pipes
< pipe water from the standpipe into every house >
b. : to convey as if by pipes
< every bit of talk in that town is piped into his ears — W.L.Gresham >
specifically : to transmit (as current, a radio or television program) by wire or coaxial cable
< pipe electricity from the dam to the cities >
< pipe music into restaurants, stores, and factories >
< pipe the telecast to all network stations >
8. slang : to look at : notice
< slapped their wrists when they piped the red long johns — H.D.Schwartz >
9. : to put (cookie dough, frosting) on a cookie sheet or baked goods by forcing through a pastry tube
10. : to make cavities in (as an ingot of steel) during casting
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