pipe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: pipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pipes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: piping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: piped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: piped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me […]
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.
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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a container.
pos: noun
examples: Meronym: pipestave
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.
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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a container.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
pos: noun
gloss: Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
pos: noun
gloss: Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
pos: noun
gloss: Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
pos: noun
gloss: Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
historical
examples: 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.
gloss: Meanings relating to computing.
pos: noun
gloss: Meanings relating to computing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
gloss: Meanings relating to computing.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
examples: While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.
gloss: Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
historical
gloss: A telephone.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.”
gloss: To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: [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.
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.
gloss: To shout loudly and at high pitch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "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.
gloss: To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [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: […]
gloss: Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To install or configure with pipes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dab moisture away from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.
gloss: To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
pos: verb
tags: Unix
transitive
examples: We can just pipe the output of our command into sed to get rid of any leading whitespaces.
gloss: To create or decorate with piping (icing).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pipe flowers on to a cupcake
This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
gloss: To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Pipe down the starboard watch, boatswain, and see that they go.
gloss: To have sex with a woman.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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
Now this bitch calling me Pacino, she thinks she fifer
The only thing on my mind is tryna pipe her
gloss: To see.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
"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?"
gloss: To invent or embellish (a story).
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: […] 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.
If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.
Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical.
gloss: To hit with a pipe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: agony-pipe
ag pipe
agricultural pipe
airpipe
anonymous pipe
bagpipes
beampipe
between the pipes
blastpipe
blast pipe
blowpipe
blue pipe
boatswain's pipe
boom pipe
brakepipe
brake pipe
broken pipe
bubble pipe
cesspipe
chain pipe
churchwarden pipe
clerk of the pipe
crackpipe
crack pipe
crack-pipe
crosspipe
cutty-pipe
double pipe
downpipe
drainage pipe
drain pipe
drainpipe
drill pipe
drivepipe
dronepipe
dumb pipe
dutchman's pipe
Dutchman's pipe
eduction pipe
en
exhaust pipe
feedpipe
flue pipe
food pipe
gas pipe
gaspipe
ghost pipe
gobble-pipe
go down the wrong pipe
hair pipe
half pipe
half-pipe
hash pipe
hashpipe
hawse pipe
hawsepipe
hawse-pipe
horn pipe
hornpipe
hosepipe
Indian pipe
jet pipe
kimberlite pipe
labial pipe
lay pipe
lay the pipe
leadpipe
lead-pipe cinch
light pipe
micropipe
monopipe
mouthpipe
multipipe
named pipe
opium pipe
organ pipe
organ pipe cactus
outpipe
Pandean pipes
panpipe
pan pipe
pan pipes
pan-pipes
peace pipe
petticoat pipe
pipage
pipeable
pipe-and-slipper
pipe-and-slippers
pipe band
pipe bender
pipe bomb
pipeborne
pipe-bowl
pipecase
pipe chase
pipeclay
pipe cleaner
Pipe Creek
pipe cutter
piped link
pipe dope
pipe dream
pipefish
pipefitter
pipe fitter
pipefitting
pipeful
Pipe Gate
pipe-hitter
pipejacking
pipe key
pipelay
pipelayer
pipelaying
pipeless
pipe-light
pipe lighter
pipelike
pipeline
pipe line
pipe macaroni
pipeman
pipemouth
pipe office
pipe of peace
pipe opal
pipe-opener
pipe organ
pipe organist
pipe rack
pipe roll
pipesmoke
pipesmoker
pipesmoking
pipe snake
pipes of Pan
pipe spool
pipe-staple
pipestem
pipe-stick
pipestone
pipe tomahawk
pipe tong
pipetongs
pipe-tree
pipe union
pipevine
pipewalker
pipeway
pipeweed
pipewood
pipework
pipeworker
pipewort
pipe wrench
piping
pipkin
pipy
pistol pipe
pitchpipe
pitch pipe
playpipe
poop pipe
postpipe
puff pipe
put someone's pipe out
put that in your pipe and smoke it
pygmy pipes
quail-pipe
quail pipe
quarter-pipe
quarter pipe
Queen's pipe
Queen's tobacco-pipe
red pipe
reed pipe
rone pipe
rose-pipe
sandpipe
service pipe
set of pipes
shepherd's pipe
sidepipe
smokepipe
smoking pipe
socket pipe
soil pipe
sparge pipe
spurling pipe
squint-a-pipes
standpipe
steampipe
steam pipe
stick that in your pipe and smoke it
stopped pipe
stovepipe
stove-pipe-hatted
straight-pipe
sun pipe
superpipe
tailpipe
three-pipe problem
tobacco pipe
train pipe
trainpipe
twire-pipe
uilleann pipe
uilleann pipes
union pipes
vitrified clay pipe
voicepipe
Voigt pipe
volcanic pipe
waste pipe
waterpipe
water pipe
windpipe
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: fyell
lang: Arabic
word: مِزْمَار
roman: mizmār
lang: Armenian
word: շվի
roman: švi
lang: Armenian
word: սրինգ
roman: sring
lang: Belarusian
word: ду́дка
roman: dúdka
lang: Belarusian
word: жале́йка
roman: žaljéjka
lang: Bulgarian
word: сви́рка
roman: svírka
lang: Bulgarian
word: га́йда
roman: gájda
lang: Catalan
word: gaita
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 笛子
roman: dízi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 管子
roman: guǎnzi
lang: Czech
word: píšťala
lang: Dutch
word: fluit
lang: Esperanto
word: fluto
lang: Estonian
word: vile
lang: Estonian
word: vilepill
lang: Finnish
word: huilu
lang: Finnish
word: pilli
lang: French
word: cornemuse
lang: Galician
word: frauta
lang: Galician
word: pipa
lang: Galician
word: gaita
lang: Georgian
word: სტვირი
roman: sṭviri
lang: German
word: Flöte
lang: Greek
word: αυλός
roman: avlós
lang: Greek
word: φλάουτο
roman: fláouto
lang: Hungarian
word: síp
lang: Irish
word: píb
lang: Italian
word: cornamusa
lang: Japanese
word: 笛
roman: fue
lang: Kalmyk
word: бүшкүр
roman: büşkür
lang: Korean
word: 피리
roman: piri
lang: Central Kurdish
word: شمشاڵ
roman: şimşall
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bilûr
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: ney
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bilûl
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: fîq
lang: Latin
word: fistula
lang: Latvian
word: stabule
lang: Latvian
word: svilpe
lang: Latvian
word: birbīne
lang: Livonian
word: sviļp
lang: Macedonian
word: шупелка
roman: šupelka
lang: Macedonian
word: кавал
roman: kaval
lang: Macedonian
word: дудук
roman: duduk
lang: Maltese
word: żummara
lang: Māori
word: pū
lang: Old English
word: hwistle
lang: Old English
word: pīpe
lang: Persian
word: مولو
roman: mulu
lang: Polish
word: piszczałka
lang: Polish
word: fujarka
lang: Portuguese
word: flauta
lang: Russian
word: свире́ль
roman: svirélʹ
lang: Russian
word: ду́дка
roman: dúdka
lang: Russian
word: жале́йка
roman: žaléjka
lang: Sanskrit
word: पिच्छोरा
roman: picchorā
lang: Sanskrit
word: मुरली
roman: muralī
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pìob
lang: Slovak
word: píšťala
lang: Southern Altai
word: сыбыскы
roman: sïbïskï
lang: Spanish
word: caramillo
lang: Spanish
word: flauta f)
lang: Swahili
word: digali
lang: Swedish
word: flöjt
lang: Swedish
word: pipa
lang: Tamil
word: ஊதுகுழல்
roman: ūtukuḻal
lang: Tamil
word: குழல்
roman: kuḻal
lang: Tarifit
word: tamja
lang: Turkish
word: kaval
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دودوك
roman: düdük
lang: Ukrainian
word: ду́дка
roman: dúdka
lang: Ukrainian
word: пи́щавка
roman: pýščavka
lang: Ukrainian
word: сопі́лка
roman: sopílka
lang: Vietnamese
word: ống sáo
lang: Vietnamese
word: ống tiêu
lang: Vietnamese
word: kèn túi
lang: Afrikaans
word: buis
lang: Afrikaans
word: pyp
lang: Albanian
word: tub
lang: Arabic
word: مَاسُورَة
roman: māsūra
lang: Arabic
word: أُنْبُوب
roman: ʔunbūb
lang: Armenian
word: խողովակ
roman: xoġovak
lang: Azerbaijani
word: boru
lang: Azerbaijani
word: truba
lang: Azerbaijani
word: lülə
lang: Basque
word: tutu
lang: Belarusian
word: труба́
roman: trubá
lang: Bengali
word: নল
roman: nol
lang: Bulgarian
word: тръба́
roman: trǎbá
lang: Bulgarian
word: цев
roman: cev
lang: Burmese
word: ပြွန်
roman: prwan
lang: Burmese
word: ပိုက်
roman: puik
lang: Catalan
word: tub
lang: Catalan
word: canonada
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 管子
roman: guǎnzi
lang: Czech
word: trubka
lang: Czech
word: roura
lang: Danish
word: rør
lang: Dutch
word: buis
lang: Dutch
word: pijp
lang: Esperanto
word: tubo
lang: Estonian
word: toru
lang: Finnish
word: putki
lang: French
word: conduit
lang: French
word: tuyau
lang: Galician
word: cano
lang: Galician
word: tubo
lang: Georgian
word: მილები
roman: milebi
lang: German
word: Rohr
lang: Greek
word: αγωγός
roman: agogós
lang: Greek
word: σωλήνας
roman: solínas
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σωλήν
roman: sōlḗn
lang: Hebrew
word: צינור \ צִנּוֹר
roman: tsinór
lang: Hindi
word: पाइप
roman: pāip
lang: Hindi
word: नल
roman: nal
lang: Hungarian
word: cső
lang: Icelandic
word: rör
lang: Indonesian
word: pipa
lang: Irish
word: píopa
lang: Italian
word: condotto
lang: Italian
word: tubo
lang: Japanese
word: パイプ
roman: paipu
lang: Kazakh
word: құбыр
roman: qūbyr
lang: Khmer
word: បំពង់
roman: bɑmpŭəng
lang: Khmer
word: ទុយយោ
roman: tuyyoo
lang: Korean
word: 파이프
roman: paipeu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: lûle
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: borî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: труба
roman: truba
lang: Lao
word: ທໍ່
roman: thǭ
lang: Lao
word: ກະບອກ
roman: ka bǭk
lang: Latin
word: canālis
lang: Latin
word: tubus
lang: Latvian
word: caurule
lang: Lithuanian
word: vamzdis
lang: Livonian
word: rūoŗ
lang: Macedonian
word: цевка
roman: cevka
lang: Malay
word: paip
lang: Māori
word: paipa
lang: Māori
word: kōrere
lang: Michif
word: peup
lang: Mongolian
word: хоолой
roman: xooloj
lang: Mongolian
word: труба
roman: truba
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠬᠣᠭᠤᠯᠠᠶ
roman: qoɣulay
lang: Norman
word: tuyau
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: rør
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: røyr
lang: Church Slavic
word: трѫба
roman: trǫba
lang: Church Slavic
word: цѣвь
roman: cěvĭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: труба
roman: truba
lang: Old East Slavic
word: кевь
roman: kevĭ
lang: Old English
word: þēote
lang: Old English
word: pīpe
lang: Oromo
word: ujummoo
lang: Pashto
word: بالکه
roman: bālka
lang: Pashto
word: نل
roman: nal
lang: Dari
word: نَل
roman: nal
lang: Iranian Persian
word: لولِه
roman: lule
lang: Polish
word: rura
lang: Portuguese
word: cano
lang: Portuguese
word: tubo
lang: Portuguese
word: duto
lang: Russian
word: труба́
roman: trubá
lang: Russian
word: тру́бка
roman: trúbka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: це̑в
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ције̑в
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cȇv
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cijȇv
lang: Slovak
word: rúra
lang: Slovak
word: trúbka
lang: Slovene
word: cev
lang: Somali
word: tuuboo
lang: Southern Altai
word: труба
roman: truba
lang: Spanish
word: tubería
lang: Spanish
word: tubo
lang: Spanish
word: caño
lang: Swahili
word: bomba
lang: Swedish
word: rör
lang: Tajik
word: қубур
roman: qubur
lang: Tajik
word: лула
roman: lula
lang: Tamil
word: குழாய்
roman: kuḻāy
lang: Thai
word: ท่อ
roman: tɔ̂ɔ
lang: Thai
word: กระบอก
roman: grà-bɔ̀ɔk
lang: Tok Pisin
word: mambu
lang: Turkish
word: boru
lang: Turkish
word: lüle
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: لوله
roman: lüle
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ناو
roman: nav
lang: Turkmen
word: truba
lang: Ukrainian
word: труба́
roman: trubá
lang: Urdu
word: پائِپ
roman: pāip
lang: Urdu
word: نال
roman: nāl
lang: Uyghur
word: تۇرۇبا
roman: turuba
lang: Uzbek
word: quvur
lang: Uzbek
word: truba
lang: Vietnamese
word: ống
lang: Yiddish
word: רער
roman: rer
lang: Zulu
word: ithumbu