Definitions for pipe
pipe
pipe
Spelling: [pahyp]
IPA: /paɪp/
Pipe is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 18 anagrams from letters in pipe (eipp).
Definitions for pipe
noun
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a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
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a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
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a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
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Music.
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.
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Nautical.
boatswain's pipe.
the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
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the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
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pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, especially as used in singing.
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Usually, pipes.
Music. bagpipe.
a set of flutes, as a panpipe.
Informal. a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, especially a respiratory passage:
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any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
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Mining.
a cylindrical vein or body of ore.
(in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
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Metallurgy. a 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.
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Botany. the stem of a plant.
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a large cask, of varying capacity, especially for wine or oil.
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such a cask as a measure of liquid capacity, equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads, or half a tun, and containing 126 wine gallons.
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such a cask with its contents.
Verb phrases
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pipe down, Slang. to stop talking; be quiet:
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pipe up,
to begin to play (a musical instrument) or to sing.
to make oneself heard; speak up, especially as to assert oneself.
to increase in velocity, as the wind.
verb (used with object)
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to convey by or as by pipes:
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to supply with pipes.
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to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
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to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle:
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to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe:
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to utter in a shrill tone:
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to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
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Cookery. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
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Informal. to convey by an electrical wire or cable:
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Slang. to look at; notice:
verb (used without object)
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to play on a pipe.
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Nautical. to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.
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to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
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to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe:
Origin of pipe
before 1000; (noun) Middle English, Old English pīpe musical pipe, tube (cognate with Dutch pijp, Low German pīpe, German Pfeife, Old Norse pīpa) Vulgar Latin *pīpa, derivative of Latin pīpār
Examples for pipe
But in good time the Lybian pipe warns us that the feast is ready.
He leaned back, and began to puff leisurely at his pipe, as if this settled the matter.
Vaguely, from the corner of his eye, he felt that Pop had taken the pipe from his mouth.
I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
All it needs is one more “pipe” to select and transmit the crucial information.
There was poop humor—literally—when Valerie's house becomes flooded with fecal matter after a pipe bursts.
It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.
And now, Uncle Paul, if you don't object I'll take out my pipe and have a smoke.
And then I said, ‘Well, chief, when the admiral comes aboard, the first mate has to pipe him in.’
He watched the face of the other keenly, but the old man was busy filling his pipe.