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pipe

1  [pahyp] noun, verb, piped, pip⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
2. a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
3. a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
4. Music.
a. a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument.
b. a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe.
c. one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced.
d. a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum.
5. Nautical.
a. boatswain's pipe.
b. the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
6. the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
7. pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, esp. as used in singing.
8. Usually, pipes.
a. Music. bagpipe.
b. a set of flutes, as a panpipe.
c. Informal. a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, esp. a respiratory passage: to complain of congested pipes.
9. any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
10. Mining.
a. a cylindrical vein or body of ore.
b. (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
11. Metallurgy. a depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold.
12. Botany. the stem of a plant.
–verb (used without object)
13. to play on a pipe.
14. Nautical. to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.
15. to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
16. to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe: songbirds piping at dawn.
–verb (used with object)
17. to convey by or as by pipes: to pipe water from the lake.
18. to supply with pipes.
19. to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
20. to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle: all hands were piped on deck.
21. to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe: to pipe dancers.
22. to utter in a shrill tone: to pipe a command.
23. to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
24. Cookery. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
25. Informal. to convey by an electrical wire or cable: to pipe a signal from the antenna.
26. Slang. to look at; notice: Pipe the cat in the hat.
—Verb phrases
27. pipe down, Slang. to stop talking; be quiet: He shouted at us to pipe down.
28. pipe up,
a. to begin to play (a musical instrument) or to sing.
b. to make oneself heard; speak up, esp. as to assert oneself.
c. to increase in velocity, as the wind.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME, OE pīpe musical pipe, tube (c. D pijp, LG pīpe, G Pfeife, ON pīpa) < VL *pīpa, deriv. of L pīpāre to chirp, play a pipe; (v.) ME pipen; in part continuing OE pīpian to play a pipe < L pīpāre; in part < OF piper to make a shrill sound < L pīpāre (cf. peep 2 )

Related forms:
pipeless, adjective
pipelike, adjective

Synonyms:
16. cheep, chitter, whistle, chirp, peep, trill, twitter, tweet.
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Slang Dictionary
pipe

  1. n.
    an easy course in school. : I don't want a full load of pipes. I want to learn something.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

pipe 
O.E. pipe "musical wind instrument," also "tube to convey water," from V.L. *pipa "a pipe" (cf. It. pipa, Fr. pipe, Ger. Pfeife, Dan. pibe, Du. pijp), a back-formation from L. pipare "to chirp or peep," of imitative origin. All tubular senses ultimately derive from "small reed, whistle." Meaning "device for smoking" first recorded 1594. The verb sense of "to play on a pipe" is from O.E. pipian; the meaning "convey through pipes" is first recorded 1889. A pipe dream (1896) is the sort of improbably fantasy one has while smoking opium. Piping hot is in Chaucer, a reference to hissing of food in a frying pan; to pipe up (c.1425) originally meant "to begin to play" (on a musical instrument). Pipe down "be quiet" first recorded 1900.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

PIPE

See private investment in public equities.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Science Dictionary
pipe   (pīp)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.

  2. See volcanic pipe.


The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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