pipe

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

3. 3

   Meanings relating to a container.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.

   2. 5

      Meanings relating to computing.

   3. 6

      Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      A telephone.

      • “Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.”
   5. 8

      To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

      • [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.
   6. 9

      To shout loudly and at high pitch.

      • "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.
   7. 10

      To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe

      To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

   8. 11

      Of a queen bee

      Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

   9. 12

      Of a metal ingot

      Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

   10. 13

       To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

   11. 14

       To install or configure with pipes.

   12. 15

       To dab moisture away from.

       • 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.
   13. 16

       To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

       • Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.
   14. 17

       To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by…

       To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.

       • We can just pipe the output of our command into sed to get rid of any leading whitespaces.
   15. 18

       To create or decorate with piping (icing).

       • 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.
   16. 19

       To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

       • Pipe down the starboard watch, boatswain, and see that they go.
   17. 20

       To have sex with a woman.

       • 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
   18. 21

       To see.

       • 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?"
   19. 22

       To invent or embellish (a story).

       • 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.
   20. 23

       To hit with a pipe.

       • 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.
   21. 24

       A surname.

   22. 25

       An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after…

       An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.

   23. 26

       Acronym of private investment in public equity.

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