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Pipe   /paɪp/   Listen
Pipe

noun
1.
A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco.  Synonym: tobacco pipe.
2.
A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc..  Synonyms: pipage, piping.
3.
A hollow cylindrical shape.  Synonym: tube.
4.
A tubular wind instrument.
5.
The flues and stops on a pipe organ.  Synonyms: organ pipe, pipework.
verb
(past & past part. piped; pres. part. piping)
1.
Utter a shrill cry.  Synonyms: pipe up, shriek, shrill.
2.
Transport by pipeline.
3.
Play on a pipe.
4.
Trim with piping.



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"Pipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... not, Martha," the parson returned, as he reached for his pipe and tobacco lying on a little stand by his side. "It is only his son which made him interested to-night, and that is as far as ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody

... signs about of the occupant's love of the sweet science; for there were a tuning-fork, a pitch-pipe, and a metronome on the chimney-piece, a large musical-box on the front of the book-case, some nondescript pipes, reeds, and objects of percussion; and, to show that other tastes were cultivated to some extent, there were, besides, several golf-clubs, ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn

... it for some time. It began with entries about bread and sausage and the ordinary incidents of the trenches; here and there Karl wrote about an old grandfather, and a big china pipe, and pinewoods and roast goose. Then the diarist seemed to get fidgety about ...
— The Angels of Mons • Arthur Machen

... Dijon they took breakfast in the dining-car, and left Choulette in it, alone with his pipe, his glass ...
— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France

... familiar illustration of this law. Two vertical cylinders, one many times larger than the other, are connected by a pipe. The cylinders are fitted with pistons. Both the cylinders, and the pipe connecting them, are filled with water, oil, air, or any other fluid; the fluid can pass freely from one cylinder to the other, through the connecting pipe. Suppose a horizontal section ...
— The Psychology of Singing - A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern • David C. Taylor


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