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
  1. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
  2. (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.
  3. (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
  4. A type of pasta, similar to macaroni
  5. Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
  6. (music) A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
  7. (music) A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)
  8. (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
  9. (computing) The character |
  10. (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
  11. (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
    A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
  12. (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.
  13. (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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Terms derived from pipe (noun)

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hollow tube
smoking tool
geology
pasta
decorative edging
organ pipe
musical instrument
computing slang
computing character
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)

  1. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  2. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
  3. (intransitive) To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
  4. (nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
  5. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
  6. (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.
  7. (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.
  8. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  9. (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)

  1. tobacco pipe.
  2. (vulgar) fellatio.
    • Faire une pipe.
    • Tailler une pipe.

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pipe f.

  1. Plural form of pipa.

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pipe m. and f.

  1. chimney
  2. (smoking) pipe
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