pipe
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From Old English pipe, from Vulgar Latin *pipa.
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pipe (plural pipes)
A man playing pipe (7) and tabor
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
- A type of pasta, similar to macaroni
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
- (music) A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
- (music) A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- (computing) The character |
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
- (obsolete) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- 1882: Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.
- (Australian, colloquial, obsolete) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- 1818: yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. William Cluer of the Brickfield Hill. — Sydney Gazette, 26 September 1818, on William Bland convicted of libelling Governor Macquarie in a pipe (William Cluer was an earthenware pipe manufacturer). Quoted in More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia's First Newspaper, volume 2, ed. Micahel Connor, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2004, ISBN 1-876631-91-0.
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- See also Wikisaurus:tube
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Terms derived from pipe (noun)
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hollow tube
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smoking tool
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organ pipe
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musical instrument
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computing slang
computing: means of interprocess communication
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pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (intransitive) To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
- (nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (transitive) To decorate with piping.
- 1998, Merehurst Staff, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, Graham Tann, The international school of sugarcraft: Beginners (page 108)
- This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
- 1998, Merehurst Staff, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, Graham Tann, The international school of sugarcraft: Beginners (page 108)
- (transitive) To dab away moisture from.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 2
- "Ar-cher! Ja-cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 2
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character at the command line.
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pipe f. (plural pipes)
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pipe f.
- Plural form of pipa.
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pipe m. and f.
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