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Definitions for Pipe

[1] a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
[2] a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
[3] a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
[4] 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.
[5] Nautical . boatswain's pipe. the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
[6] the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
[7] pipes, Informal . the human vocal cords or the voice, especially as used in singing.
[8] 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: to complain of congested pipes.
[9] any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
[10] Mining . a cylindrical vein or body of ore. (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
[11] 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.
[12] Botany . the stem of a plant.
[13] to play on a pipe.
[14] Nautical . to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.
[15] to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
[16] to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe: songbirds piping at dawn.
[17] to convey by or as by pipes: to pipe water from the lake.
[18] to supply with pipes.
[19] to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
[20] to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle: all hands were piped on deck.
[21] to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe: to pipe dancers.
[22] to utter in a shrill tone: to pipe a command.
[23] to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
[24] Cookery . to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
[25] Informal . to convey by an electrical wire or cable: to pipe a signal from the antenna.
[26] Slang . to look at; notice: Pipe the cat in the hat.
[27] pipe down , Slang . to stop talking; be quiet: He shouted at us to pipe down.
[28] 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.
[29] a large cask, of varying capacity, especially for wine or oil.
[30] such a cask as a measure of liquid capacity, equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads, or half a tun, and containing 126 wine gallons.
[31] such a cask with its contents.
[32] a long tube of metal, plastic, etc, used to convey water, oil, gas, etc
[33] a long tube or case
[34] an object made in any of various shapes and sizes, consisting of a small bowl with an attached tubular stem, in which tobacco or other substances are smoked (as modifier ) a pipe bowl
[35] Also called: pipeful the amount of tobacco that fills the bowl of a pipe
[36] zoology botany any of various hollow organs, such as the respiratory passage of certain animals
[37] any musical instrument whose sound production results from the vibration of an air column in a simple tube any of the tubular devices on an organ, in which air is made to vibrate either directly, as in a flue pipe, or by means of a reed
[38] an obsolete three-holed wind instrument, held in the left hand while played and accompanied by the tabor See tabor
[39] the pipes See bagpipes
[40] a shrill voice or sound, as of a bird
[41] a boatswain's pipe the sound it makes
[42] (plural) informal the respiratory tract or vocal cords
[43] metallurgy a conical hole in the head of an ingot, made by escaping gas as the metal cools
[44] a cylindrical vein of rich ore, such as one of the vertical diamond-bearing veins at Kimberley, South Africa
[45] Also called: volcanic pipe a vertical cylindrical passage in a volcano through which molten lava is forced during eruption
[46] US slang something easy to do, esp a simple course in college
[47] put that in your pipe and smoke it informal accept that fact if you can
[48] to play (music) on a pipe
[49] (tr) to summon or lead by a pipe to pipe the dancers
[50] to utter (something) shrilly
[51] to signal orders to (the crew) by a boatswain's pipe (tr) to signal the arrival or departure of to pipe the admiral aboard
[52] (tr) to convey (water, gas, etc) by a pipe or pipes
[53] (tr) to provide with pipes
[54] (tr) to trim (an article, esp of clothing) with piping
[55] (tr) to force (cream, icing, etc) through a shaped nozzle to decorate food
[56] a large cask for wine, oil, etc
[57] a measure of capacity for wine equal to four barrels. 1 pipe is equal to 126 US gallons or 105 Brit gallons
[58] a cask holding this quantity with its contents

Words related to Pipe

vent, hose, duct, sewer, vessel, line, pipeline, transmit, siphon, canal, conduit, conveyer, aqueduct, spout, trough, main, channel, carry, funnel, convey

Words nearby Pipe

pip emma, pip-emma, pipa, pipage, pipal, pipe, pipe batten, pipe bomb, pipe clay, pipe cleaner, pipe cutter

Origin of Pipe

21350–1400; Middle English < Middle French, ultimately same as pipe1

Other words from Pipe

pipe·less , adjective
pipe·like , adjective
un·piped , adjective

Word origin for Pipe

C14: via Old French (in the sense: tube, tubular vessel), ultimately from Latin pīpāre to chirp; compare pipe 1

Synonyms for Pipe

duct, hose, line, pipeline, sewer, vent, vessel, aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, conveyer, main, spout, trough