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pipe en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈpaɪp/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Displaced native Old English fealh and Old English þrūh. Doublet of fife. Cognate with Dutch pijp, German Pfeife, Danish pibe, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk pipe, Swedish pipa, Faroese and Icelandic pípa. The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa. The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

Meanings

  1. 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.
    • Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side, The summer's gone and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. 1913, “Danny Boy: Song Adapted from an Old Irish Air”, Fred[eric] E[dward] Weatherly (lyrics), New York, N.Y.; London: Boosey & Co […], →OCLC, page 1:
  2. Meanings relating to a wind instrument. ▸ A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
    • Most theater organs use many sets (ranks) of reed and flue pipes of various shapes, pipe scales, and so forth to generate a variety of timbres. 1980, Harvey E[lliott] White, Donald H. White, “Wind Instruments”, in Physics and Music: The Science of Musical Sound, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders College Pub./Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 245; republished Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2014, →ISBN, part 3 (Musical Instruments), section 18.7 (The Theater Organ), page 245:
  3. Meanings relating to a wind instrument. ▸ The key or sound of the voice.
    • For they ſhall yet belye thy happy yeeres, That ſay thou art a man: Dianas lip Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmall pipe Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound, And all is ſemblatiue a womans part. c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 257, column 2:
  4. Meanings relating to a wind instrument. ▸ A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
    • Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, pages 66–67:
  5. 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 standard Flight Refuelling Ltd Mk 8 probe nozzle was attached to the probe structural tube and fuel pipe. The pipe was double-walled, and passed through into the fuselage aft of the flight deck; […] A non-return valve was fitted within the fuel pipe aft of the probe nozzle, thus preventing any leakage of fuel if the aircraft lost the probe nozzle inadvertently. 2006, Richard M. Tanner, “Lockheed Tristar: Single-point Tanker”, in History of Air-to-air Refuelling, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN, part 2 (Technology), page 286, column 1:
  6. (especially, in informal contexts) 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 water pipe.
    • Corrosion control can be accomplished in distribution systems by adding compounds that form a protective film on the pipe surface, thereby providing a barrier between the water and the pipe. 2000, Richard L. Valentine et al., “Chlorine and Monochloramine Decay in Batch and Loop Experiments”, in The Role of the Pipe–Water Interface in DBP Formation and Disinfectant Loss, Iowa City, Ia.: University of Iowa, →ISBN, page 115:
    • A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
  7. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit. ▸ A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
    • Amongst the vessels of the human body, the pipe which conveys the saliva from the place where it is made, to the place where it is wanted, deserves to be reckoned amongst the most intelligible pieces of mechanism with which we are acquainted. 1802, William Paley, “Of the Vessels of Animal Bodies”, in Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Morgan, […], →OCLC, pages 125–126:
  8. (slang) Meanings relating to a hollow conduit. ▸ A man's penis.
    • He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me […] 2006, Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: An Honest Examination into Urban Sexual Relations, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Enterprises, →ISBN, page 7:
    • He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it. 2010, Eric Summers, editor, Teammates, Sarasota, Fla.: StarBooks, →ISBN, page 90:
    • He laughed as he knelt down between Duncan's splayed thighs and tore open a packaged condom, then rolled it down over his big fuck-pipe. 2011, Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys, Sarasota, Fla.: StarBooks, →ISBN, page 64:
  9. 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.)
    • Meronym: pipestave
    • My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts. 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”, in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, volume I, New York: W. J. Widdleton, published 1849, page 347, →OCLC:
    • Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 329
  10. Meanings relating to a container. ▸ The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
    • 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 31½ gallons, a rundlet 18½ gallons. 1882, James E[dwin] Thorold Rogers, “Weights and Measures”, in A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793) […], volumes IV (1401–1582), Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 205:
  11. 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.
  12. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube. ▸ A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
  13. 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.
    • Some researchers think that the warming was caused as kimberlite pipes (volcanic vents originating deep in the Earth’s mantle) reached the surface near Lac de Gras in northern Canada and released huge amounts of carbon. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 54:
    • While the pipe of a conventional volcano may extend down 50 miles or so, the volcanic pipes that pick up diamonds along the way had to go much deeper, perhaps as deep as 300 miles. 1995 March, Jon Bowermaster, “Diamond Rush in the Arctic”, in Fred Abatemarco, editor, Popular Science, volume 246, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, columns 2–3:
  14. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube. ▸ One of the goalposts of the goal.
  15. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube. ▸ An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
  16. (Australia, colloquial, historical) 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.
    • On Thursday Mr. William Bland, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, […] was brought to trial on a charge of libelling the Governor [Lachlan Macquarie], by the composition and publishing of various letters and verses contained in a manuscript book dropped on the Parramatta Road—and thence brought to light. […] [H]owever lenient the sentence passed upon this young man, yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. Wm. Cluer [an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill. 1818 September 26, “Sydney. [Criminal Court.]”, in Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, volume XVI, number 775, Sydney, N.S.W.: By authority [government printer], →OCLC, page 3, columns 2–3:
  17. Meanings relating to computing. ▸ A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
  18. (slang) Meanings relating to computing. ▸ A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
    • A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
  19. (metonymically) Meanings relating to computing. ▸ The character |.
    • While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper. 2001 July 13, JimmyMac, “java and xml”, in comp.lang.java.help (Usenet):
  20. 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.
    • Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement. 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 129:
    • In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass. 1892, Walter Besant, “The Select Circle”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 46:
  21. (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) Meanings relating to a smoking implement. ▸ The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
  22. (slang) A telephone.
    • “Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.” 1980, Charles D. Taylor, Show of Force:

Forms

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pipes Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

barrel · hogshead · tun · puncheon · tertian · tierce · rundlet

Deriveds

hashpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · jet pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipy (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · waste pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · tobacco pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · light pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · lead-pipe cinch (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · feedpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · drainpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · dumb pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeline (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipelayer (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · uilleann pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · hash pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-and-slipper (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · hawse pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · half-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · dutchman's pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · water pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · quail pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · cesspipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeway (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · drill pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-tree (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · hawsepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-hitter (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipelay (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pudding-pipe tree (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Queen's tobacco-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · micropipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · volcanic pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipejacking (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · food pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe organist (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · blast pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · lay pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · postpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipelaying (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipesmoker (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · trainpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipefish (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipevine (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Pipe Creek (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · boatswain's pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Pandean pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe snake (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · broken pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipelike (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · union pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeman (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · steampipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-light (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe lighter (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · agony-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · stove-pipe-hatted (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · boom pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · kimberlite pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeable (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipewood (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · drain pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pan pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · put someone's pipe out (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · stovepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · go down the wrong pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe wrench (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · superpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Dutchman's pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · gaspipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipefitter (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipetongs (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipage (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · piped link (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeborne (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-staple (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · double pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipes of Pan (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · monopipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · rose-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · socket pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · ag pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe dope (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · rone pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · vitrified clay pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · panpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-and-slippers (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · shepherd's pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · piping (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-stick (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe chase (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · downpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · straight-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · dry pipe valve (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · bubble pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · waterpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipkin (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · set of pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe bomb (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipework (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · anonymous pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · windpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · hair pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · peace pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe roll (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeclay (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · uilleann pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe band (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · quarter pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · brake pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeweed (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pistol pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · smoking pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-opener (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · squint-a-pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · blue pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · blastpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeless (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipewort (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · twire-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · en (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · three-pipe problem (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeworker (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · poop pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · between the pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · ghost pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe of peace (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe office (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · dronepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipestone (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · organ pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · sidepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe-bowl (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe spool (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · train pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · exhaust pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe dream (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipecase (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe tong (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · flue pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · blowpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Pipe Gate (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · quarter-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · sandpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · voicepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe tomahawk (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · blowing pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · crack pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipestem (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · steam pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe line (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · beampipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Indian pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · playpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe bender (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Voigt pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · horn pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · quail-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe union (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · soil pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · outpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · cutty-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · half pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe cutter (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · drainage pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · sparge pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pitchpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · standpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · leadpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · airpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipeful (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pan-pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · churchwarden pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · clerk of the pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · sun pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · eduction pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipesmoking (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · red pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · hosepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · stopped pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipesmoke (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pan pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · chain pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · reed pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · put that in your pipe and smoke it (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · mouthpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · crackpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · drivepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · lay the pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · bagpipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe bursting (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · gobble-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · smokepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · opium pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe organ (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · petticoat pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · Queen's pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe fitter (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipewalker (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · labial pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pitch pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · brakepipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · hornpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · multipipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · agricultural pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · organ pipe cactus (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe cleaner (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe rack (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe opal (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipemouth (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipefitting (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · puff pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · service pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · named pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe macaroni (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · crosspipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · tailpipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · hawse-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · stick that in your pipe and smoke it (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pipe key (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · crack-pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · gas pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · spurling pipe (Terms derived from pipe (noun)) · pygmy pipes (Terms derived from pipe (noun))

Descendants

パイプ · ปาเฮะ · 파이프 · пайп · পাইপ · पाइप · پايپ (medium of transportation (noun sense 2.1)) · paip · paipa · پيپ (smoking pipe)

Hypernyms

briar

Synonyms

pan · bar · blower · tube · butt · virgule · tube · vertical line · tube · tube · vertical bar

Translations (313)

sv pipa (type of wind instrument) · af buis (rigid tube) · ota لوله (water pipe) · kmr ney (type of wind instrument) · fr barre verticale (the character |) · ca barra vertical (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · it canna d'organo (organ pipe) · sa पिच्छोरा (type of wind instrument) · ru труба́ (organ pipe) · bg цев (rigid tube) · hu cső (tubular passageway in the human body) · izh kerus (tubular passageway in the human body) · de Rohr (rigid tube) · hu sípolás (key or sound of the voice) · ca canonada (rigid tube) · fa مولو (type of wind instrument) · it cornamusa (type of wind instrument) · ta கீச்சு (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird) · es banda ancha (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · pl rurki (type of pasta) · nl buis (rigid tube) · cs varhanní píšťala (organ pipe) · el φλάουτο (type of wind instrument) · nn tilførselskanal (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · mk цевка (rigid tube) · hu virgula (the character |) · es coditos (type of pasta) · vi mạch ống (elongated or irregular body of ore) · be труба́ (rigid tube) · mn ᠬᠣᠭᠤᠯᠠᠶ (rigid tube) · th ท่อ (rigid tube) · el σωλήνας (rigid tube) · ta ஊதுகுழல் (type of wind instrument) · ka სტვირი (type of wind instrument) · sv lina (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · hu álló vonal (the character |) · uk сопі́лка (type of wind instrument) · nl sluisteken (the character |) · ca tub (organ pipe) · alt сыбыскы (type of wind instrument) · fa تنبوشه (water pipe) · km ទុយយោ (rigid tube) · fi putki (water pipe) · id pipa (water pipe) · ms paip (water pipe) · so tuuboo (rigid tube) · gl gaita (type of wind instrument) · et vile (type of wind instrument) · ky труба (rigid tube) · kmr bilûr (type of wind instrument) · cmn 管子 (rigid tube) · lv birbīne (type of wind instrument) · vi ống (rigid tube) · fi pystyviiva (the character |) · hu orgonasíp (organ pipe) · ja パイプ (rigid tube) · nrf tuyau (rigid tube) · fi urkupilli (organ pipe) · prs نَل (rigid tube) · eo tubo (rigid tube) · ga píopa (rigid tube) · fr conduit (rigid tube) · mn хоолой (rigid tube) · cs svislítko (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · ru труба́ (rigid tube) · la tubus (water pipe) · vi ống đàn ống (organ pipe) · gl tubo (organ pipe) · gl pipa (type of wind instrument) · az boru (rigid tube) · ca canonada (water pipe) · bg сви́рка (type of wind instrument) · zu ithumbu (rigid tube) · ar مِزْمَار (type of wind instrument) · pl kreska pionowa (the character |) · ko 피리 (type of wind instrument) · la canālis (water pipe) · ru труба́ (water pipe) · es orla (textiles: decorative edging) · fi purkauskanava (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · de Flöte (type of wind instrument) · ja パイプ (organ pipe) · es tubo (rigid tube) · eu tutu (rigid tube) · it pipe (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · cs roura (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · is aðfærsluæð (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · es codos (type of pasta) · sk rúra (rigid tube) · lo ທໍ່ (rigid tube) · vi tiếng hót (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird) · mi paipa (rigid tube) · et toru (rigid tube) · is rör (rigid tube) · es caño (rigid tube) · nl fluit (type of wind instrument) · fi torvi (tubular passageway in the human body) · sq fyell (type of wind instrument) · ko 파이프 (organ pipe) · es ribete (textiles: decorative edging) · id pipa (rigid tube) · ota ناو (rigid tube) · my ပြွန် (rigid tube) · kmr bilûl (type of wind instrument) · es encaje (textiles: decorative edging) · lv svilpe (type of wind instrument) · sh cȇv (rigid tube) · th ขีดตั้ง (the character |) · fi maalitolppa (lacrosse: goalpost) · liv rūoŗ (rigid tube) · el σωλήνα (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · hu csipogás (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird) · es tubería (rigid tube) · hu cső (rigid tube) · ca pleca (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · ps نل (rigid tube) · pt pipe (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · et vilepill (type of wind instrument) · fi putki (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · kk құбыр (rigid tube) · vi dấu sổ thẳng (the character |) · ota ناو (water pipe) · ug تۇرۇبا (rigid tube) · cmn 管子 (type of wind instrument) · orv труба (rigid tube) · sq tub (rigid tube) · hu síp (type of wind instrument) · nl orgelpijp (organ pipe) · cmn 笛子 (type of wind instrument) · es pleca (the character |) · sk píšťala (type of wind instrument) · az lülə (rigid tube) · fi letku (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · ka მილები (rigid tube) · pl fujarka (type of wind instrument) · he צינור \ צִנּוֹר (rigid tube) · orv кевь (rigid tube) · mt żummara (type of wind instrument) · fr cornemuse (type of wind instrument) · gl tubo (rigid tube) · pt cano (rigid tube) · hu síp (organ pipe) · af pyp (rigid tube) · it condotto (rigid tube) · yi רער (rigid tube) · tk truba (rigid tube) · vi ống tiêu (type of wind instrument) · fa-ira لولِه (rigid tube) · uz quvur (rigid tube) · fi putki (elongated or irregular body of ore) · cu трѫба (rigid tube) · la fistula (type of wind instrument) · xal бүшкүр (type of wind instrument) · ru пайп (data backbone or broadband Internet access) · hy խողովակ (rigid tube) · sw digali (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · hu vízcső (water pipe) · fr tuyau (rigid tube) · ru свире́ль (type of wind instrument) · ta குழாய் (water pipe) · es tubo de órgano (organ pipe) · tpi mambu (rigid tube) · ckb شمشاڵ (type of wind instrument) · uk ду́дка (type of wind instrument) · az truba (rigid tube) · it tubo (rigid tube) · it barra verticale (the character |) · ga píopa (the character |) · liv sviļp (type of wind instrument) · fi päärme (textiles: decorative edging) · alt труба (rigid tube) · ur پائِپ (rigid tube) · el εκκλησιαστικό (organ pipe) · bn নল (rigid tube) · cs pipa (the character |) · crg peup (rigid tube) · is lóðlína (the character |) · vi thùng (contents of such a vessel as a liquid measure) · hy շվի (type of wind instrument) · it pipe (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · ms paip (rigid tube) · fi putki (rigid tube) · pt duto (rigid tube) · tr biye (textiles: decorative edging) · tr lüle (rigid tube) · fr tube (the character |) · mk шупелка (type of wind instrument) · pt tubo (organ pipe) · mk дудук (type of wind instrument) · pl piszczałka (type of wind instrument) · ca gaita (type of wind instrument) · kmr fîq (type of wind instrument) · th ไพป์ (the character |) · lo ກະບອກ (rigid tube) · sh cijȇv (rigid tube) · sl cev (rigid tube) · ta குழாய் (tubular passageway in the human body) · sw digali (type of wind instrument) · es flauta f) (type of wind instrument) · ta குழாய் (rigid tube) · bg пи́укане (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird) · mi(type of wind instrument) · grc σωλήν (rigid tube) · vi kèn túi (type of wind instrument) · eo fluto (type of wind instrument) · tg қубур (rigid tube) · cs roura (rigid tube) · fr barre (the character |) · es chimenea (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · kmr lûle (rigid tube) · ru тру́бка (rigid tube) · ta குழல் (tubular passageway in the human body) · sv orgelpipa (organ pipe) · th กระบอก (rigid tube) · da tilførselskanal (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · tr kaval (type of wind instrument) · ang þēote (rigid tube) · ru жале́йка (type of wind instrument) · de Orgelpfeife (organ pipe) · sv flöjt (type of wind instrument) · hi पाइप (rigid tube) · es fierro (slang: penis) · vi ống sáo (type of wind instrument) · cs svislítko (the character |) · kmr borî (rigid tube) · es tubería (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · ar مَاسُورَة (rigid tube) · la canālis (rigid tube) · mk кавал (type of wind instrument) · hi नल (rigid tube) · ta குழல் (type of wind instrument) · bg га́йда (type of wind instrument) · ja(type of wind instrument) · ang pīpe (type of wind instrument) · nb rør (rigid tube) · hy սրինգ (type of wind instrument) · tr düdük (type of wind instrument) · mk дудлец (organ pipe) · hu vízvezeték (water pipe) · fr pipe (the character |) · ang pīpe (rigid tube) · fi huilu (type of wind instrument) · pt tubo (rigid tube) · tg лула (rigid tube) · el αγωγός (rigid tube) · gl cano (rigid tube) · hu csivitelés (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird) · pl piszczałka (organ pipe) · sh ције̑в (rigid tube) · rif tamja (type of wind instrument) · cu цѣвь (rigid tube) · sa मुरली (type of wind instrument) · gl pipa (large container for liquids or foodstuff) · be ду́дка (type of wind instrument) · el αυλός (type of wind instrument) · da rør (rigid tube) · fo tilførsluveit (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · sk trúbka (rigid tube) · ko 파이프 (rigid tube) · lv caurule (rigid tube) · ga píb (type of wind instrument) · vi ống nước (water pipe) · fi piipitys (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird) · nl pijp (organ pipe) · km បំពង់ (rigid tube) · la tubus (rigid tube) · hu csőtészta (type of pasta) · es caramillo (type of wind instrument) · uk труба́ (rigid tube) · ar أُنْبُوبَة (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · sw bomba (rigid tube) · sv tillförselkanal (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · lt vamzdis (rigid tube) · cs trubka (rigid tube) · be жале́йка (type of wind instrument) · nb tilførselskanal (geology: vertical conduit through the Earth's crust) · cs píšťala (type of wind instrument) · fa موری (water pipe) · ru ду́дка (type of wind instrument) · gl frauta (type of wind instrument) · fi viserrys (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird) · gd pìob (type of wind instrument) · uz truba (rigid tube) · ru пайп (the character |) · mi kōrere (rigid tube) · sw digali (organ pipe) · nn røyr (rigid tube) · ur نال (rigid tube) · sh це̑в (rigid tube) · pl potok (computing: mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another) · bg тръба́ (rigid tube) · pt barra vertical (the character |) · ps بالکه (rigid tube) · ang hwistle (type of wind instrument) · my ပိုက် (rigid tube) · hu sípszó (key or sound of the voice) · fi suoni (tubular passageway in the human body) · ca tub (rigid tube) · nl pijp (rigid tube) · pt flauta (type of wind instrument) · mn труба (rigid tube) · pl rura (rigid tube) · lv stabule (type of wind instrument) · om ujummoo (rigid tube) · ota دودوك (type of wind instrument) · sv rör (rigid tube) · uk пи́щавка (type of wind instrument) · de senkrechter Strich (the character |) · ar أُنْبُوب (rigid tube) · ota لوله (rigid tube) · fi pilli (type of wind instrument) · tr boru (rigid tube) · vi tiếng hát (high-pitched sound, especially of a bird)

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pipe en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˈpaɪp/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Displaced native Old English fealh and Old English þrūh. Doublet of fife. Cognate with Dutch pijp, German Pfeife, Danish pibe, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk pipe, Swedish pipa, Faroese and Icelandic pípa. The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa. The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
    • Piping down the valleys wild / Piping songs of pleasant glee / On a cloud I saw a child. / And he laughing said to me / Pipe a song about a Lamb: / So I piped with merry chear. / Piper pipe that song again – / So I piped, he wept to hear. 1789, William Blake, “Introduction”, in Songs of Innocence:
    • [T]he pide Piper with a ſhrill pipe went piping through the ſtreets, and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houſes in great numbers after him; all which hee led into the riuer of Weaſer and therein drowned them. 1605, R[ichard] V[erstegan], “Of the Antient Manner of Living of Ovr Saxon Ancestors. […]”, in A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the Most Noble and Renovvmed^([sic – meaning Renovvned]) English Nation. […], printed at Antwerp: By Robert Bruney; […] [a]nd to be sold […], by Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill, →OCLC; republished London: Printed by Iohn Bill, […], 1628, →OCLC, page 85:
  2. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
    • "Ar—cher—Ja—cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed. 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 17:
  3. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
    • [W]ith the mariners A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd Among the mountains, and he in his heart Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas. Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds Of caves and trees: […] 1827, William Wordsworth, “The Brothers”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 125:
  4. (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
  5. (intransitive) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
  6. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
  7. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
  8. (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
    • 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. 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part IV (The Stockade), pages 153–154:
  9. (figuratively, transitive) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
    • Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary. 2009, Susan Van Allen, “Churches Dedicated to Female Saints—Rome”, in 100 Places in Italy Every Woman should Go, Palo Alto, Calif.: Travelers’ Tales, Solas House, →ISBN, section I (The Divine: Goddesses, Saints, and the Blessed Virgin Mary), page 20:
  10. (Unix, transitive) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
    • We can just pipe the output of our command into sed to get rid of any leading whitespaces.
  11. (transitive) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
    • This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake. 1998, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, The International School of Sugarcraft: Book One: Beginners, London: Merehurst Press, →ISBN, page 108:
    • to pipe flowers on to a cupcake
  12. (transitive) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
    • Pipe down the starboard watch, boatswain, and see that they go. 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XXIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 298:
  13. (of a man, slang, transitive) To have sex with a woman.
    • How you got everybody lit, pipin' up? Oh, she bad with no swag, I can pipe her up Made my last one my last one, I'm wifin' her 2017 September 7, “Heatin Up”, in Lil Baby (lyrics), My Turn, 1:57:
    • Now this bitch calling me Pacino, she thinks she fifer The only thing on my mind is tryna pipe her 2022 October 20, “Bitch”, Sliknik (lyrics), 2:21:
  14. (dated, slang, transitive) To see.
    • So I went and laid down on the grass. While laying there I piped a reeler whom I knew. He had a nark (a policeman's spy) with him. So I went and looked about for my two pals, and told them to look out for F. and his nark. 1879 October, J[ohn] W[illiam] Horsley, “Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves’ Language”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XL, number 240, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 505, column 1:
    • "Hey, Greek," Roger was saying, his droning voice coming unpleasantly into the other's musings, "did you pipe that? Did you ever see anything like her?" 1914, Jackson Gregory, Under Handicap:
  15. (US, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
    • If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story. 2004, Arthur Gelb, City Room, page 154:
    • Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical. 2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, page 91:
    • […] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew a piped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store. 1981, Elie Abel, What's News: The Media in American Society, page 259:
  16. (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
    • It goes without saying at every turn the cops and I were at it. It was said he may not be a great fighter but he'll stab or pipe anyone, cop or con. 1986 February 1, anonymous author, “"Fuck Dolls" Fight Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 4:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
piped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
piped Tense=Past lexicographic
piping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pipes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Coordinates

quack · toot

Deriveds

pipe down (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · piper (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipe one's eye (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipe up (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipe in (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · repipe (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipe off (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipable (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipe the side (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipe the eye (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · pipeable (Terms derived from pipe (verb)) · piped link (Terms derived from pipe (verb))

Synonyms

decern · notice · spot · pipe · behold

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