• Pipe

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /paɪp/
    • Rhymes: -aɪp

    Origin

    From Old English pipe, from Vulgar Latin *pipa.

    Full definition of pipe

    Noun

    pipe

    (plural pipes)
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    1. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
    2. (smoking) A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
    3. (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
    4. A type of pasta, similar to macaroni
    5. Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
    6. (music) A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
    7. (music) A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)
    8. (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
    9. (computing) The character
    10. (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
    11. (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
    12. (obsolete) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
      • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205,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 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
    13. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
      • 1818 September 26, Sydney Gazette, on being convicted of libelling in a pipe, quoted in 2004, Michael Connor (editor), More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia′s First Newspaper, volume 2, Duffy and Snellgrove, ISBN 1-876631-91-0,yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. William Cluerearthenware pipe maker of the Brickfield Hill.
    14. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
    15. The key or sound of the voice.
    16. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
      • Tennysonthe earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
    17. (mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
    18. (idiomatic, slang) A man's penis.
      • 2006, Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: an Honest Examination Into Urban Sexual Relations, page 7He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me...
      • 2010, Eric Summers, Teammates, page 90He 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.
      • 2011, Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys, page 64He 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.

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    Terms derived from pipe (noun)

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
    2. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
    3. (intransitive) To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
    4. (nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
    5. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
    6. (transitive) To decorate with piping.
      • 1998, Merehurst Staff, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, Graham Tann, The international school of sugarcraft: Beginners (page 108)This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
    7. (transitive) To dab away moisture from.
      • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, 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.
    8. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
    9. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character at the command line.
    10. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
      • Wordsworthoft in the piping shrouds
    11. To become hollow in the process of solidifying; said of an ingot of metal.

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