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单词 pipe fitting
释义

pipe1 /pīp/

noun
  1. A metal or plastic tube for the conveyance of water, gas, etc
  2. Any tube, or tubular part or thing, natural or artificial
  3. A musical wind instrument, or part of an instrument, consisting of or including a tube
  4. Any of an organ's upright metal or wooden tubes
  5. (in pl) a bagpipe
  6. The note of a bird
  7. A voice, esp a high voice
  8. (usu in pl) the windpipe
  9. Any of various hollow organs in an animal body
  10. A pipe-like volcanic vent, a cylindrical mass of ore, etc
  11. An entrance to a decoy
  12. A tube with a bowl at one end for smoking
  13. A fill of tobacco
  14. The smoking of a fill of tobacco
  15. A stick of eg pipeclay for curling hair or a wig (Sterne)
  16. A boatswain's whistle
  17. The direction of the output of a program or command into another (computing)
intransitive verb
  1. To play a musical pipe
  2. To whistle (as the wind or a boatswain does)
  3. To speak or sing, esp in a high voice
  4. To peep or sing, as a bird does
  5. To weep
  6. To become pipy
transitive verb
  1. To play on a pipe
  2. To lead or call by means of a pipe
  3. (with in) to accompany or call ceremonially in with pipe music
  4. To render, or cause to be, by playing a pipe
  5. To propagate by piping (horticulture)
  6. To force (icing, cream, etc) out through a nozzle in a thin strip as decoration
  7. To ornament with piping
  8. To supply with pipes
  9. To convey by pipe
  10. To transmit (television, radio signals) by electricity or along a wire
ORIGIN: OE pīpe, from L pīpāre to cheep; cf Du pijp, Ger Pfeife

pīpˈage noun

Conveyance or distribution by pipe

piped /pīpt/ adjective

  1. Tubular or fistulous
  2. Transported by means of a pipe
  3. Transmitted simultaneously to many outlets from a central control location by means of an audio system, telephone or electricity line, etc

pipeˈful noun (pl pipeˈfuls)

Enough to fill a pipe

pipeˈless adjective

pipeˈlike adjective

pīpˈer noun

  1. A player on a pipe, esp a bagpipe
  2. A broken-winded horse
  3. A young pigeon or other bird
  4. A kind of gurnard
  5. A pipe-smoker
  6. A decoy dog
  7. A kind of caddis-worm

pīpˈing adjective

  1. Playing a pipe
  2. Sounding like a pipe
  3. Producing a shrill sound, whistling
  4. Thin and high-pitched
  5. Characterized by pipe-playing, as opposed to martial music, as in the phrase the piping times of peace
  6. Hissing hot
  7. Very hot
noun
  1. The action of the verb pipe in any sense
  2. Pipe-playing
  3. A system of pipes
  4. Tubing
  5. Small cord used as trimming for clothes
  6. Strings and twists of icing ornamenting a cake
  7. A slip or cutting from a joint of a stem (horticulture)
  8. The action of hydraulicking

pīpˈy adjective

  1. Pipelike
  2. Having pipes
  3. Piping

pipe band noun

A military or marching band of bagpipe players and drummers, led by a pipe major

pipe bomb noun

A crude bomb made of a length of pipe packed with explosives

pipeˈ-case noun

A case for a tobacco pipe

pipeˈclay noun

A fine white, nearly pure, kaolin, free from iron, used for making tobacco pipes and fine earthenware, and for whitening military belts, etc

transitive verb

To whiten with pipeclay

pipeˈ-cleaner noun

A length of wire with tufts of fabric twisted into it, used to clean pipe-stems

piped music noun

Continuous background music played in a restaurant, etc, or piped from a central studio to other buildings

pipe dream noun

A futile and unreal hope or fancy such as one has when relaxing while smoking a pipe (orig an opium-smoker's fantasy)

pipeˈ-dreamer noun

pipeˈfish noun

A fish (of several species) of the seahorse family, a long thin fish covered with hard plates, the jaws forming a long tube

pipe fitting noun

Any of the wide variety of pipe connecting-pieces used to make turns, junctions, and reductions in piping systems

pipeˈ-key noun

A key with a hollow barrel

pipeˈ-layer noun

  1. Someone who lays pipes for water, gas, etc
  2. A political wirepuller (old US sl)

pipeˈ-laying noun

pipeless organ noun

A musical instrument, played like an organ, in which sounds, built up from whatever harmonics may be chosen, are produced by a loudspeaker

pipeˈ-light or pipeˈ-lighter noun

A spill for lighting a pipe

pipeˈline noun

  1. A long continuous line of piping to carry water from a reservoir, oil from an oilfield, etc
  2. A line of piping to carry solid materials
  3. Any continuous line of communication, or supply, or of progress and development (figurative)
  4. See also in the pipeline below

adjective (computing)

Denoting a processor, program, etc involving parallel processing of instructions which is overlapped to enable streams of instructions to be decoded and executed concurrently

transitive verb

  1. To carry by pipeline
  2. To carry out using a pipeline process (computing)

pipeˈlining noun

pipe major noun

The chief of a band of bagpipers

Pipe Office noun (historical)

An office in the Court of Exchequer in which the Clerk of the Pipe made out the Pipe Roll

pipe of peace see calumet

pipeˈ-opener noun (informal)

  1. A walk or spell of exercise in the fresh air
  2. A practice game or trial run

pipe organ noun

A musical organ with pipes

pipe rack noun

A rack for storing tobacco pipes

Pipe Roll noun (historical)

The Great Roll of the Exchequer, containing yearly accounts of sheriffs, etc (possibly from its pipelike form)

pipe snake noun

A tropical burrowing snake

pipeˈ-stem noun

The tube of a tobacco pipe

pipeˈstone noun

A red argillaceous stone used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes

pipeˈ-stoppˈle or pipeˈ-stappˈle noun (Scot)

  1. A tobacco pipe stem
  2. Anything very thin and brittle-looking

pipeˈ-track noun

The course of a pipe across country

pipeˈ-tree noun (obsolete)

  1. The mock orange (white pipe-tree)
  2. The lilac (blue pipe-tree)

pipeˈwork noun

  1. A vein of ore in the form of a pipe
  2. Piping or pipes collectively, eg in an organ

pipeˈwort noun

A rare rush-like water plant (Eriocaulon septangulare) of Ireland and the Hebrides, the only European representative of its family, Eriocaulaceae

pipeˈ-wrench noun

A wrench that grips a pipe when turned one way

piping crow noun

An Australian bird (genus Gymnorhina) called a magpie, really related to the shrikes

piping hare noun

A pika

boatswain's pipe see boatswain's whistle under whistle

drunk as a piper

Very drunk

in the pipeline

  1. Waiting to be considered or dealt with
  2. In preparation

pay the piper

  1. To bear the expense (and so call the tune have control)
  2. To have to pay heavily

pipe and tabor

A small recorder, fingered by the left hand, and a small drum beaten with the right, formerly in use in rustic jollities

pipe down

  1. To subside into silence
  2. To stop talking or be quiet (informal)
  3. To dismiss (a ship's company) from muster (the final order of the day)

pipe one's eye, tune one's pipes

To weep

pipe up (informal)

  1. To interject, say something
  2. To begin to speak

piping hot

(of food, usu when served) very hot, literally so hot as to make a hissing or sizzling noise

put that in your pipe and smoke it! (informal; of some unwelcome home truth, etc)

There! how do you like that?
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