'Pipe' definitions:

Definition of 'pipe'

(from WordNet)
noun
A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco [syn: pipe, tobacco pipe]
noun
A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. [syn: pipe, pipage, piping]
noun
A hollow cylindrical shape [syn: pipe, tube]
noun
A tubular wind instrument
noun
The flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn: organ pipe, pipe, pipework]
verb
Utter a shrill cry [syn: shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe]
verb
Transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"
verb
Play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"
verb
Trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"

Definition of 'Pipe'

From: GCIDE
  • Pipe \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[imac]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.]
  • 1. 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. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. [1913 Webster]
  • The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. 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. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. [1913 Webster]
  • Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building.
  • Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe.
  • Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.]
  • Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; -- called also pipe privet.
  • Pipe wrench, or Pipe tongs, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it.
  • To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the American Indians. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pipe'

From: GCIDE
  • Pipe \Pipe\, v. i.
  • 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. [1913 Webster]
  • We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced. --Matt. xi. 17. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. "Oft in the piping shrouds." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pipe'

From: GCIDE
  • Pipe \Pipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piped; p. pr. & vb. n. Piping.]
  • 1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. [1913 Webster]
  • A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. [1913 Webster]
  • As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft. --Marryat. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'pipe'

From: Easton
  • Pipe (1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored through," and is the name given to various kinds of wind instruments, as the fife, flute, Pan-pipes, etc. In Amos 6:5 this word is rendered "instrument of music." This instrument is mentioned also in the New Testament (Matt. 11:17; 1 Cor. 14:7). It is still used in Palestine, and is, as in ancient times, made of different materials, as reed, copper, bronze, etc.

Synonyms of 'pipe'

From: Moby Thesaurus