单词 | pipe-openers |
释义 | pipe1 /pīp/noun
ORIGIN: OE pīpe, from L pīpāre to cheep; cf Du pijp, Ger Pfeife pīpˈage noun Conveyance or distribution by pipe piped /pīpt/ adjective
pipeˈful noun (pl pipeˈfuls) Enough to fill a pipe pipeˈless adjective pipeˈlike adjective pīpˈer noun
pīpˈing adjective
pīpˈy adjective
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
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
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
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)
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)
pipeˈ-track noun The course of a pipe across country pipeˈ-tree noun (obsolete)
pipeˈwork noun
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
pay the piper
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
pipe one's eye, tune one's pipes To weep pipe up (informal)
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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