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Meaning
Noun
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In Musical instruments:
Meanings
relating
to a
wind
instrument.
A
wind instrument
consisting of
a
tube
, often
lined
with
holes
to
allow for
adjustment
in
pitch
,
sounded
by
blowing
into the
tube
.
●
In Music:
Meanings
relating
to a
wind
instrument.
A
tube
used to
produce
sound
in an
organ
; an
organ
pipe.
●
Meanings
relating
to a
wind
instrument.
The key or
sound
of the voice.
A
high-pitched
sound
, especially of a bird.
●
Meanings
relating
to a
hollow
conduit.
A
rigid
tube
that
transports
water,
steam
, or other
fluid
, as used in
plumbing
and
numerous
other applications.
A
rigid
tube
that
transports
water,
steam
, or other
fluid
, as used in
plumbing
and
numerous
other applications.;A water pipe.
A
tubular
passageway
in the human body such as a
blood vessel
or the windpipe.
A man's penis.
●
Meanings
relating
to a container.
A large
container
for
storing
liquids
or
foodstuffs
; now especially a
vat
or
cask
of
cider
or
wine
. (See a
diagram
comparing
cask
sizes.)
The
contents
of such a
vessel
, as a
liquid measure
, sometimes set at 126
wine gallons
;
half
a tun.
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Meanings
relating
to something
resembling
a tube.
Decorative
edging
stitched
to the
hems
or
seams
of an
object
made of
fabric
(clothing,
hats
,
curtains
,
pillows
, etc.), often in a
contrasting
color
; piping.
A type of
pasta
similar
to macaroni.
●
In Geology:
Meanings
relating
to something
resembling
a tube.
A
vertical
conduit
through the Earth's
crust
below a
volcano
through which
magma
has
passed
, often
filled
with
volcanic
breccia.
●
In Lacrosse:
Meanings
relating
to something
resembling
a tube.
One of the
goalposts
of the goal.
●
In Mining:
Meanings
relating
to something
resembling
a tube.
An
elongated
or
irregular
body or
vein
of ore.
●
In Australian English:
Meanings
relating
to something
resembling
a tube.
An
anonymous
satire
or
essay
,
insulting
and
frequently
libellous
,
written
on a
piece of paper
which was
rolled
up and left
somewhere public where it could be found and thus
spread
, to
embarrass
the author's enemies.
●
In Computing:
Meanings
relating
to computing.
A
mechanism
that
enables
one
program
to
communicate
with another by
sending
its
output
to the other as input.
A
data
backbone
, or
broadband
Internet access.
●
In Computing & Typography:
Meanings
relating
to computing.
The
character
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●
In Smoking:
Meanings
relating
to a
smoking
implement.
A
hollow
stem
with a
bowl
at one
end used for
smoking
, especially a
tobacco pipe
but also including various other
forms
such as a water
pipe
.
●
In American English & Canadian English:
Meanings
relating
to a
smoking
implement.
The
distance
travelled
between two
rest
periods
during
which one
could
smoke
a pipe.
●
A telephone.
●
In Finance:
Acronym of
private
investment
in public
equity.
Verb
●
To
play
(music) on a
pipe
instrument
, such as a
bagpipe
or a flute.
●
To
shout
loudly
and at high pitch.
●
To
emit
or have a
shrill
sound
like that
of a
pipe
; to whistle.
●
Of a
queen bee
: to make a
high-pitched
sound
during certain
stages
of development.
●
In Metallurgy:
Of a
metal
ingot
: to become
hollow
in the process of
solidifying.
●
To
convey
or
transport
(something)
by means of
pipes.
●
To
install
or
configure
with pipes.
●
To
dab
moisture
away
from.
●
To lead or
conduct
as if
by
pipes
, especially by
wired
transmission.
●
In Computing:
To
directly
feed
(the
output
of one
program
) as
input
to another
program
,
indicated
by the
pipe
character
([[Unsupported titles/`vert`#Translingual||]]) at the
command
line.
●
In Cooking:
To create or
decorate
with
piping
(icing).
●
In Nautical:
To order or
signal
by a
note
pattern
on a boatswain's pipe.
●
To
have sex
with a woman.
●
To see.
●
In American English & Mass media:
To
invent
or
embellish
(a story).
Name
●
A surname.
●
An
unincorporated
community
in Fond
du
Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the
calumet
(pipe)
smoked
by
native
Americans.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
pipe
English
pipe
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
Synonyms
Pan
Blower
Tube
Bar
Virgule
See
Fistula
Tubes
Penis
Copulation
Vertical Bar
Vertical Line
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Flow
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