Definition of pipes Pipes
/pajˈps/ - [payps] -
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NounPlural: pipes |
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| pipe - a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. | ||
| pipage, piping | ||
| tubing, tube conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | ||
| chimneypot a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | ||
| discharge pipe a pipe through which fluids can be discharged | ||
| drainpipe, waste pipe, drain emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | ||
| drilling pipe a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud | ||
| elbow the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow | ||
| exhaust pipe a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler | ||
| fuel line, petrol line, gas line a pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine; "the car wouldn't start because dirt clogged the gas line" | ||
| main a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage | ||
| manifold a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes | ||
| pipeline, line a pipe used to transport liquids or gases; "a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport" | ||
| riser main, riser pipe, riser pipeline, riser structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step | ||
| sparge pipe a horizontal pipe having fine holes drilled throughout its length so as to deliver a spray of water | ||
| spout an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain | ||
| standpipe a vertical pipe | ||
| steam line, steam pipe a pipe conducting steam | ||
| pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco | ||
| tobacco pipe | ||
| tubing, tube conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | ||
| pipe bowl, bowl a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | ||
| briar pipe, briar a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath | ||
| calabash pipe, calabash a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | ||
| calumet, peace pipe, pipe of peace a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace) | ||
| clay pipe a pipe made of clay | ||
| calean, shisha, sheesha, nargileh, narghile, kalian, hubbly-bubbly, hubble-bubble, hookah, chicha, water pipe an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" | ||
| meerschaum a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum | ||
| mouthpiece the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | ||
| pipe - a tubular wind instrument | ||
| wind instrument, wind a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath | ||
| bagpipe a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | ||
| chanter, melody pipe reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played | ||
| bourdon, drone pipe, drone stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen | ||
| fipple flute, fipple pipe, vertical flute, recorder a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece | ||
| pandean pipe, panpipe, syrinx a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together | ||
| pipe - a hollow cylindrical shape | ||
| tube | ||
| cylinder a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | ||
| pipe - the flues and stops on a pipe organ | ||
| organ pipe, pipework | ||
| wind instrument, wind a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath | ||
| pipe organ, organ wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard | ||
| flue pipe, labial pipe, flue organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip | ||
| organ stop a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality | ||
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| pipe - play on a pipe; "pipe a tune" | ||
| play engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea" | ||
| music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" | ||
| pipe up begin to play or sing | ||
| pipe - transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert" | ||
| transport move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" | ||
| pipe - trim with piping; "pipe the skirt" | ||
| grace, ornament, adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree" | ||
| pipe - utter a shrill cry | ||
| shriek, shrill, pipe up | ||
| shout out, yell, holler, hollo, scream, squall, shout, cry, call utter or declare in a very loud voice; "You don't have to yell--I can hear you just fine" | ||
| caterwaul, yowl utter shrieks, as of cats | ||
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Wiktionary
- pipe (Verb)
To convey or transport something by means of pipes. - pipe (Verb)
To install or configure with pipes. - pipe (Verb)
To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe. - pipe (Verb)
To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe. - pipe (Verb)
To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission. - pipe (Verb)
To decorate with piping. - pipe (Verb)
To dab away moisture from. - pipe (Verb)
To shout loudly and at high pitch. - pipe (Verb)
To directly feed the output of one program as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character at the command line .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
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A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. - pipe (n.)
Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. - pipe (n.)
A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. - pipe (n.)
A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. - pipe (n.)
The key or sound of the voice. - pipe (n.)
The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. - pipe (n.)
The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. - pipe (n.)
An elongated body or vein of ore. - pipe (n.)
A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. - pipe (n.)
A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. - pipe (n.)
A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. - pipe (v. i.)
To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. - pipe (v. i.)
To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. - pipe (v. i.)
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. - pipe (v. i.)
To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel. - pipe (v. t.)
To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. - pipe (v. t.)
To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. - pipe (v. t.)
To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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pipe
A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. -
pipe
A device consisting of a mouthpiece, a long pipe stem and a pipe bowl, that is used to smoke tobacco.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pipe
pīp, n. a musical wind instrument consisting of a long tube: any long tube: a tube of clay, &c., with a bowl at one end for smoking tobacco: a pipeful: the note of a bird: a cask containing two hogsheads.—v.i. to play upon a pipe: to whistle, to chirp: to make a shrill noise.—v.t. to play on a pipe: to call with a pipe, as on board ships: to give forth shrill notes: to supply with pipes, to convey by pipes.—ns. Pip′age, conveyance or distribution by pipes; Pipe′-case, a box softly lined to protect a pipe; Pipe′clay, a fine white plastic clay, very like kaolin, but containing a larger percentage of silica, used for making tobacco-pipes and fine earthenware.—v.t. to whiten with pipeclay: (slang) to blot out, as accounts.—adj. Piped (pīpt), tubulous or fistulous.—ns. Pipe′-fish, a genus of fishes in the same order as the seahorse, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout, hence the name; Pipe′-lay′er; Pipe′-lay′ing, the laying down of pipes for gas, water, &c.; Pipe′-off′ice, formerly an office in the Court of Exchequer in which the clerk of the pipe made out crown-land leases; Pip′er; Pipe′-roll, a pipe-like roll, the earliest among the records of the Exchequer; Pipe′-stā′ple, the stalk of a tobacco-pipe: a stalk of grass; Pipe′-stick, the wooden tube used as the stem of some tobacco-pipes; Pipe′-tongs, an implement for holding or turning metal pipes or pipe-fittings; Pipe′-tree, the lilac; Pipe′-wine (Shak.), wine drawn from the cask, as distinguished from bottled wine; Pipe′-wrench, a wrench with one movable jaw, both so shaped as to bite together when placed on a pipe and rotated round it.—Pipe down, to dismiss from muster, as a ship's company; Pipe off, to watch a house or person for purposes of theft; Pipe one's eye, to weep.—Drunk as a piper, very drunk; Pay the piper, to bear the expense. [A.S. pípe; Dut. pijp, Ger. pfeife.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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pipe
A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. Also, a peculiar whistle for summoning the men to duty, and directing their attention by its varied sounds. (See CALL.)
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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pipe
He can ill pipe that wants his upper lip.
Wikipedia 
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Pipe is a tube or hollow cylinder for the transport of fluid. The terms 'pipe' and 'tube' can be used for the same objects. 'Pipe' is generally specified by the internal diameter (ID) whereas 'tube' is usually defined by the outside diameter (OD) but may be specified by any combination of dimensions (OD, ID, wall thickness). 'Tube' is often made to custom sizes and may often have more specific sizes and tolerances than pipe. The terms 'tube' and 'tubing' are more widely used in the USA and 'pipe' elsewhere in the world.
Both "pipe" and "tube" imply a level of rigidity and permanence, whereas a 'hose' is usually portable and flexible. -
smoke
A pipe is a tool that people use to smoke tobacco and other drugs. Pipe smokers do not usually breath in the smoke. They let it go into their mouths and then exhale it. Pipe smoking is not a healthy alternative to cigarette smoking.
Types of pipes.
Tobacco pipes are used to smoke tobacco. In some Middle Eastern countries, people smoke tobacco with water pipes, which cool the smoke in water. Different types of pipes are also used to smoke marijuana, hashish, and crack cocaine. Some people who smoke marijuana or hashish use a special larger pipe called a bong.
History.
Pipes were first used by Native Americans in religious ceremonies. When the English came to North America, they tried pipe smoking and liked it. They sent tobacco back to England.
