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| pipe1 (paɪp) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a long tube of metal, plastic, etc, used to convey water, oil, gas, etc |
| 2. | a long tube or case |
| 3. | a. an object made in any of various shapes and sizes, consisting of a small bowl with an attached tubular stem, in which tobacco or other substances are smoked |
| b. (as modifier): a pipe bowl | |
| 4. | Also called: pipeful the amount of tobacco that fills the bowl of a pipe |
| 5. | zoology, botany any of various hollow organs, such as the respiratory passage of certain animals |
| 6. | a. any musical instrument whose sound production results from the vibration of an air column in a simple tube |
| b. any of the tubular devices on an organ, in which air is made to vibrate either directly, as in a flue pipe, or by means of a reed | |
| 7. | See tabor an obsolete three-holed wind instrument, held in the left hand while played and accompanied by the tabor |
| 8. | the pipes See bagpipes |
| 9. | a shrill voice or sound, as of a bird |
| 10. | a. a boatswain's pipe |
| b. the sound it makes | |
| 11. | informal (plural) the respiratory tract or vocal cords |
| 12. | metallurgy a conical hole in the head of an ingot, made by escaping gas as the metal cools |
| 13. | a cylindrical vein of rich ore, such as one of the vertical diamond-bearing veins at Kimberley, South Africa |
| 14. | Also called: volcanic pipe a vertical cylindrical passage in a volcano through which molten lava is forced during eruption |
| 15. | slang (US) something easy to do, esp a simple course in college |
| 16. | informal put that in your pipe and smoke it accept that fact if you can |
| —vb | |
| 17. | to play (music) on a pipe |
| 18. | (tr) to summon or lead by a pipe: to pipe the dancers |
| 19. | to utter (something) shrilly |
| 20. | a. to signal orders to (the crew) by a boatswain's pipe |
| b. (tr) to signal the arrival or departure of: to pipe the admiral aboard | |
| 21. | (tr) to convey (water, gas, etc) by a pipe or pipes |
| 22. | (tr) to provide with pipes |
| 23. | (tr) to trim (an article, esp of clothing) with piping |
| 24. | (tr) to force (cream, icing, etc) through a shaped nozzle to decorate food |
| [Old English pīpe (n), pīpian (vb), ultimately from Latin pīpāre to chirp] | |
| 'pipeless1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'pipy1 | |
| —adj | |
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