pipe

noun22

1. •
   a hard tube that water or gas moves along inside a building or under the ground
2. •
   A water pipe.

   • A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
3. •
   A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
4. •
   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.

   • 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. — 1892
5. •
   A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.

   • 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. — 1913
6. •
   A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.

   • Most theater organs use many sets (ranks) of reed and flue pipes of various shapes, pipe scales, and so forth to generate a variety of timbres. — 1980
7. •
   A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
8. •
   The character |.

   • While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper. — 2001
9. •
   (slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.

   • A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
10. •
    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.
11. •
    A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.

    • While the pipe of a conventional volcano may extend down 50 miles or so, the volcanic pipes that pick up diamonds along the way had to go much deeper, perhaps as deep as 300 miles. — 1995
12. •
    One of the goalposts of the goal.
13. •
    The key or sound of the voice.
14. •
    A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
15. •
    (slang) A man's penis.

    • He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me […] — 2006
16. •
    A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

    • 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. — 1808
17. •
    The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
18. •
    A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
19. •
    An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
20. •
    (slang) A telephone.

    • “Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.” — 1980
21. •
    (US, informal) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
22. •
    (Australia, informal) 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.

verb16

1. •
   To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
2. •
   To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   (figurative) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

   • Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary. — 2009
5. •
   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. — 1922
6. •
   To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
7. •
   Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
8. •
   To create or decorate with piping (icing).

   • to pipe flowers on to a cupcake
9. •
   To install or configure with pipes.
10. •
    To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

    • Pipe down the starboard watch, boatswain, and see that they go. — 1888
11. •
    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. — 1986
12. •
    (slang) 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 — 2017
13. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) To see.

    • "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?" — 1914
14. •
    (US, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).

    • If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story. — 2004
15. •
    Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
16. •
    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. — 1881

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of private investment in public equity.