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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pipe1 /paɪp/USA pronunciation n., v., piped, pip•ing. n. [countable] - a tube or cylinder of metal or other material, used for carrying water, gas, etc.:One of the pipes in the kitchen had sprung a leak.
- a tube of wood, clay, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, etc.:He filled his pipe with tobacco.
- Music and Dance
- a musical wind instrument, as a flute, made of a single tube.
- one of the tubes through which air is forced and from which the tones of an organ are produced:Some of the organ pipes are twenty feet high.
- pipes, [plural] bagpipe.
- Informal Terms pipes, the human vocal cords or the voice, esp. as used in singing.
v. - Music and Danceto play on a pipe: [~ + object]He piped a haunting tune on the bagpipes.[no object]The band had been piping together for several years.
- to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone:[~ + object]to pipe a command.
- Civil Engineering to carry or send by or as if by pipes or by an electrical wire or cable:[~ + object]to pipe music into the room.
- Slang Terms pipe down, [no object]to stop talking;
be quiet. - pipe up, to make oneself heard, esp. as to get attention if one is being ignored* speak up: [no object]He kept piping up with new ideas.[used with quotations]"But that's just what we like doing,'' he piped up.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pipe1 (pīp),USA pronunciation n., v., piped, pip•ing. n. - a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
- a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
- Music and Dance
- a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument.
- a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe.
- one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced.
- a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum.
- [Naut.]
- Naval TermsSee boatswain's pipe.
- Naval Termsthe sound of a boatswain's pipe.
- Zoologythe call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
- Informal Terms pipes, the human vocal cords or the voice, esp. as used in singing.
- Usually, pipes.
- Music and Dancebagpipe.
- Music and Dancea set of flutes, as a panpipe.
- Informal Termsa tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, esp. a respiratory passage:to complain of congested pipes.
- Geologyany of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
- Mining
- a cylindrical vein or body of ore.
- (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
- Metallurgya depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold.
- Botanythe stem of a plant.
v.i. - Music and Danceto play on a pipe.
- Nautical, Naval Termsto signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.
- to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
- to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe:songbirds piping at dawn.
v.t. - Civil Engineeringto convey by or as by pipes:to pipe water from the lake.
- Civil Engineeringto supply with pipes.
- Music and Danceto play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
- Naval Termsto summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle:all hands were piped on deck.
- to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe:to pipe dancers.
- to utter in a shrill tone:to pipe a command.
- Clothingto trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
- Food[Cookery.]to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
- Informal Terms, Electricityto convey by an electrical wire or cable:to pipe a signal from the antenna.
- Slang Termsto look at;
notice:Pipe the cat in the hat. - pipe down, [Slang.]to stop talking;
be quiet:He shouted at us to pipe down. - pipe up:
- Music and Danceto begin to play (a musical instrument) or to sing.
- to make oneself heard;
speak up, esp. as to assert oneself. - to increase in velocity, as the wind.
- Latin pīpāre (compare peep2)
- Old French piper to make a shrill sound
- Latin pīpāre; in part
- Vulgar Latin *pīpa, derivative of Latin pīpāre to chirp, play a pipe; (verb, verbal) Middle English pipen; in part continuing Old English pīpian to play a pipe
- (noun, nominal) Middle English, Old English pīpe musical pipe, tube (cognate with Dutch pijp, Low German pīpe, German Pfeife, Old Norse pīpa) bef. 1000
- 16.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cheep, chitter, whistle, chirp, peep, trill, twitter, tweet.
pipe2 (pīp),USA pronunciation n. - a large cask, of varying capacity, esp. for wine or oil.
- Weights and Measuressuch a cask as a measure of liquid capacity, equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads, or half a tun, and containing 126 wine gallons.
- such a cask with its contents.
- Middle French, ultimately same as pipe1
- Middle English 1350–1400
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