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Pipi

(NZ) The edible saltwater clam Paphies australis, of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand.

Pipe

A tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances.

Pipi

The edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, endemic to Australia.

Pipe

A device for smoking tobacco, consisting of a narrow tube made from wood, clay, etc. with a bowl at one end in which the tobacco is burned, the smoke from which is drawn into the mouth
A smell of pipe tobacco

Pipe

A wind instrument consisting of a single tube with holes along its length that are covered by the fingers to produce different notes
The tone of a reed pipe
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Pipe

A command which causes the output from one routine to be the input for another.

Pipe

A cask for wine, especially as a measure equal to two hogsheads, usually equivalent to 105 gallons (about 477 litres)
A fresh pipe of port

Pipe

Convey (water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances) through a pipe or pipes
Water from the lakes is piped to Manchester

Pipe

Play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes
He believed he'd heard music—a tune being piped

Pipe

(of a bird) sing in a high or shrill voice
Outside at the back a curlew piped
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Pipe

Decorate (clothing or soft furnishings) with thin cord covered in fabric and inserted into a seam.

Pipe

Arrange (food, particularly icing or cream) in decorative lines or patterns
She had been piping cream round a flan

Pipe

Propagate (a pink or similar plant) by taking a cutting at the joint of a stem.

Pipe

A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.

Pipe

A section or piece of such a tube.

Pipe

A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.

Pipe

An amount of smoking material, such as tobacco, needed to fill the bowl of a pipe; a pipeful.

Pipe

A tubular part or organ of the body.

Pipe

Pipes The passages of the human respiratory system.

Pipe

A large wine cask, especially one having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).

Pipe

This volume as a unit of liquid measure.

Pipe

A tubular wind instrument, such as a flute.

Pipe

Any of the tubes in an organ.

Pipe

Pipes A small wind instrument, consisting of tubes of different lengths bound together.

Pipe

Pipes A bagpipe.

Pipe

Pipes(Informal) The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.

Pipe

A birdcall.

Pipe

(Nautical) A whistle used for signaling crew members
A boatswain's pipe.

Pipe

A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.

Pipe

One of the vertical veins of eruptive origin in which diamonds are found in South Africa.

Pipe

(Geology) An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.

Pipe

(Metallurgy) A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.

Pipe

To convey (liquid or gas) by means of pipes.

Pipe

To convey as if by pipes, especially to transmit by wire or cable
Piped music into the store.

Pipe

To provide with pipes or connect with pipes.

Pipe

To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.

Pipe

To lead by playing on pipes.

Pipe

To signal (crew members) with a boatswain's pipe.

Pipe

To receive aboard or mark the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe.

Pipe

To utter in a shrill reedy tone.

Pipe

To furnish (a garment or fabric) with piping.

Pipe

To force through a pastry tube, as frosting onto a cake.

Pipe

(Slang) To take a look at; notice.

Pipe

To play on a pipe.

Pipe

To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.

Pipe

To chirp or whistle, as a bird does.

Pipe

(Nautical) To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.

Pipe

(Metallurgy) To develop conical cavities during solidification.

Pipe

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

Pipe

(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.

Pipe

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.

Pipe

The key or sound of the voice.

Pipe

A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.

Pipe

Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

Pipe

A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.

Pipe

A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.

Pipe

(slang) A man's penis.

Pipe

Meanings relating to a container.

Pipe

A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

Pipe

The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.

Pipe

Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.

Pipe

Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.

Pipe

A type of pasta similar to macaroni.

Pipe

(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.

Pipe

(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.

Pipe

(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.

Pipe

An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

Pipe

Meanings relating to computing.

Pipe

(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.

Pipe

A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.

Pipe

Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

Pipe

(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.

Pipe

The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.

Pipe

(slang) A telephone.

Pipe

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

Pipe

(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.

Pipe

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

Pipe

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

Pipe

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

Pipe

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

Pipe

(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.

Pipe

(transitive) To dab moisture away from.

Pipe

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

Pipe

) at the command line.

Pipe

To create or decorate with piping (icing).
To pipe flowers on to a cupcake

Pipe

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

Pipe

To have sexual intercourse with a female.

Pipe

To see.

Pipe

To invent or embellish (a story).

Pipe

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.

Pipe

Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

Pipe

A small bowl with a hollow stem, - used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

Pipe

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

Pipe

The key or sound of the voice.

Pipe

The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.

Pipe

The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

Pipe

An elongated body or vein of ore.

Pipe

A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; - so called because put together like a pipe.

Pipe

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

Pipe

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

Pipe

To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.

Pipe

To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

Pipe

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

Pipe

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; - said of an ingot, as of steel.

Pipe

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes.

Pipe

To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.

Pipe

To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

Pipe

A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

Pipe

A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

Pipe

A hollow cylindrical shape

Pipe

A tubular wind instrument

Pipe

The flues and stops on a pipe organ

Pipe

Utter a shrill cry

Pipe

Transport by pipeline;
Pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert

Pipe

Play on a pipe;
Pipe a tune

Pipe

Trim with piping;
Pipe the skirt

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