Piping

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  • noun. A system of pipes, such as those used in plumbing.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of playing on a pipe.
  • noun. The music produced by a pipe when played.
  • noun. A shrill, high-pitched sound.
  • noun. A narrow tube of fabric, sometimes enclosing a cord, used for trimming seams and edges, as of slipcovers.
  • noun. A tubular ribbon of icing on a pastry.
  • adjective. Playing on a pipe.
  • adjective. Having a high-pitched sound.
  • adjective. Tranquil; peaceful.
  • idiom. (piping hot) Very hot.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Playing on a pipe.
  • Having a shrill, whistling sound.
  • In zoology, having or habitually uttering a shrill, whistling cry: said especially of birds.
  • Accompanied by the music of the peaceful pipe, rather than that of the martial trump or fife.
  • Simmering; boiling.
  • The noise made by bees preparatory to swarming.
  • noun. The act of one who pipes.
  • noun. The sound of playing on a pipe or as on a pipe; the music of pipes.
  • noun. Weeping; crying.
  • noun. A system of pipes; pipes, as for gas, water, oil, etc., collectively.
  • noun. Fluting.
  • noun. A kind of covered cord used for trimming dresses, especially along seams.
  • noun. In harness, leather guards or shields encompassing a trace-chain.
  • noun. A cord-like ornament of icing or frosting on the top of a cake.
  • noun. In jewelry, a support, usually of a baser metal, attached behind a surface of precious metal which is too thin to preserve its shape unsupported.
  • noun. In horticulture, a mode of propagating herbaceous plants having jointed stems, such as pinks, by taking slips or cuttings consisting of two joints, and planting them in moist sand under glass; also, one of these cuttings.
  • noun. A way of dressing the hair by curling it around little pins of wood or baked clay called bilboquets.
  • noun. In metallurgy See pipe, 20.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.
  • noun. Pipes, collectively.
  • noun. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.
  • noun. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.
  • adjective. Playing on a musical pipe.
  • adjective. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
  • adjective. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
  • adjective. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
  • adjective. any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
  • adjective. boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of pipe.
  • noun. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  • noun. The sound of musical pipes.
  • noun. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  • noun. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
  • noun. An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
  • noun. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  • noun. Piped icing on a cake.
  • Word Usage
    "This piping is easily heard by _any_ one not actually deaf, and not the least danger of its being taken for any humming; in fact, it is not to be mistaken for anything else _but piping_, even when you hear it for the first time."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cord  playing  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    griping  hyping  sniping  swiping  typing  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acute  adjutage  argute  at peace  balmy  
    verb-stem
    pipe