| pipe | |
| 1. n. Meanings relating to a wind instrument. | |
| 2. n. (musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. | |
| 3. n. (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. | |
| 4. n. The key or sound of the voice. | |
| 5. n. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird. | |
| 6. n. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit. | |
| 7. n. A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. | |
| 8. n. # (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe. | |
| # A burst pipe flooded my bathroom. | |
| 9. n. A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. | |
| 10. n. (slang) A man's penis. | |
| 11. n. Meanings relating to a container. | |
| 12. n. A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. | |
| 13. n. The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun. | |
| 14. n. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube. | |
| 15. n. Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; pi | |
| 16. n. A type of pasta similar to macaroni. | |
| 17. n. (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia. | |
| 18. n. (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal. | |
| 19. n. (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. | |
| 20. n. (Australia, colloquial, now historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled | |
| 21. n. Meanings relating to computing. | |
| 22. n. (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. | |
| 23. n. (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. | |
| A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection. | |
| 24. n. (computing, typography) The character (unsupported, pipe). | |
| 25. n. Meanings relating to a smoking implement. | |
| 26. n. (smoking) 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. | |
| 27. n. (Canada, US, colloquial, now historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe. | |
| 28. v. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. | |
| 29. v. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch. | |
| 30. v. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. | |
| 31. v. (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying. | |
| 32. v. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes. | |
| 33. v. To install or configure with pipes. | |
| 34. v. To dab moisture away from. | |
| 35. v. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission. | |
| 36. v. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character ((unsupported, pipe)) at the command line. | |
| 37. v. (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing). | |
| to pipe flowers on to a cupcake | |
| 38. v. (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe. | |
| 39. v. (transitive, slang) To see. | |
| Synonyms: Thesaurus:see | |
