Definitions for piping

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piping pip·ing

Spelling: [pahy-ping]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ pɪŋ/

Piping is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in piping (giinpp).

Definitions for piping

noun

1. pipes collectively; a system or network of pipes.
2. material formed into a pipe or pipes.
3. the act of a person or thing that pipes.
4. the sound of pipes.
5. a shrill sound.
6. the music of pipes.
7. a cordlike ornamentation made of icing, used on pastry.
8. a tubular band of ornamental material, sometimes containing a cord, used for trimming the edges and seams of clothing, upholstery, etc.
9. a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
10. a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
11. a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
12. 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.
13. Nautical. boatswain's pipe. the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
14. the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
15. pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, especially as used in singing.
16. 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:
17. any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
18. Mining. a cylindrical vein or body of ore. (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
19. 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.
20. Botany. the stem of a plant.

Idioms

1. piping hot, (of food or drink) very hot.

adjective

1. characterized by the peaceful music of the pipe.
2. playing on a musical pipe.
3. that pipes.
4. emitting a shrill sound:

Verb phrases

1. pipe down, Slang. to stop talking; be quiet:
2. 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)

1. to convey by or as by pipes:
2. to supply with pipes.
3. to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
4. to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle:
5. to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe:
6. to utter in a shrill tone:
7. to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
8. Cookery. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
9. Informal. to convey by an electrical wire or cable:
10. Slang. to look at; notice:

verb (used without object)

1. to play on a pipe.
2. Nautical. to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.
3. to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
4. to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe:

Origin of piping

1200-50; Middle English (gerund); see pipe¹, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for piping

He said he was a retired pipe designer, and had done the piping for the Wild Turkery distillery down the road.

Hark, I hear the piping of the shepherd and the tinkling bell of the wether.

When the piping finally concludes, a third man steps forward.

Sweet the piping of him who sat upon the rocks and fluted to the morning sea.

For them, there were no “weak, piping times of peace,”––no respite from danger.

Who would have thought that piping WillCould be so great a king?

How strange it was that no birds were piping in the trees over the wall.

In an email to White, Minyon wrote, “I am piping up saying we need your services,” adding “I will fight for it.”

Do not be content with ordinary measures; these are no piping times of peace.

This was the piping of a few birds now and again in the most unlikely places.