Pipe

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.
  • noun. A section or piece of such a tube.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.
  • noun. An amount of smoking material, such as tobacco, needed to fill the bowl of a pipe; a pipeful.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A tubular part or organ of the body.
  • noun. The passages of the human respiratory system.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A wine cask having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).
  • noun. This volume as a unit of liquid measure.
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  • noun. A tubular wind instrument, such as a flute.
  • noun. Any of the tubes in an organ.
  • noun. A small wind instrument, consisting of tubes of different lengths bound together.
  • noun. A bagpipe.
  • noun. The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.
  • noun. A birdcall.
  • noun. A whistle used for signaling crew members.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.
  • noun. One of the vertical veins of eruptive origin in which diamonds are found in South Africa.
  • noun. An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.
  • noun. A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To convey (liquid or gas) by means of pipes.
  • intransitive verb. To convey as if by pipes, especially to transmit by wire or cable.
  • intransitive verb. To provide with pipes or connect with pipes.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.
  • intransitive verb. To lead by playing on pipes.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To signal (crew members) with a boatswain's pipe.
  • intransitive verb. To receive aboard or mark the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe.
  • intransitive verb. To utter in a shrill reedy tone.
  • intransitive verb. To furnish (a garment or fabric) with piping.
  • intransitive verb. To force through a pastry tube, as frosting onto a cake.
  • intransitive verb. To take a look at; notice.
  • intransitive verb. To play on a pipe.
  • intransitive verb. To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.
  • intransitive verb. To chirp or whistle, as a bird does.
  • intransitive verb. To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.
  • intransitive verb. To develop conical cavities during solidification.
  • phrasal verb. To stop talking; be quiet.
  • phrasal verb. To speak up.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An obsolete form of peep.
  • noun. An obsolete form of pip.
  • noun. See the extract.
  • To chirp, whistle, warble, or sing, as a bird.
  • Word Usage
    "The round pipe, or _the pipe_, as it seems, _par excellence_, to be termed by English drainers, though one of the latest, if not the last form of tiles introduced in England, has become altogether the most popular among scientific men, and is generally used in all works conducted under the charge of the Land"
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    Form
    pipe down  pipe up  piped  piping  
    Hypernym
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    Hyponym
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    tube  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    gipe  gripe  hype  lipe  overripe  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    amende  arche  ball  bar  barrel  
    Synonym
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    verb-form
    piped  pipes  piping