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    –noun
  1. A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.
  2. A section or piece of such a tube.
  3. A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.
  4. An amount of smoking material, such as tobacco, needed to fill the bowl of a pipe; a pipeful.
  5. Informal A tubular part or organ of the body.
  6. Informal The passages of the human respiratory system.
  7. A wine cask having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).
  8. This volume as a unit of liquid measure.
  9. Music A tubular wind instrument, such as a flute.
  10. Music Any of the tubes in an organ.
  11. Music A small wind instrument, consisting of tubes of different lengths bound together.
  12. Music A bagpipe.
  13. Informal The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.
  14. A birdcall.
  15. Nautical A whistle used for signaling crew members: a boatswain's pipe.
  16. Geology A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.
  17. Geology One of the vertical veins of eruptive origin in which diamonds are found in South Africa.
  18. Geology An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.
  19. Metallurgy A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.
    20. –verb-transitive
  20. To convey (liquid or gas) by means of pipes.
  21. To convey as if by pipes, especially to transmit by wire or cable: piped music into the store.
  22. To provide with pipes or connect with pipes.
  23. To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.
  24. To lead by playing on pipes.
  25. Nautical To signal (crew members) with a boatswain's pipe.
  26. Nautical To receive aboard or mark the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe.
  27. To utter in a shrill reedy tone.
  28. To furnish (a garment or fabric) with piping.
  29. To force through a pastry tube, as frosting onto a cake.
  30. Slang To take a look at; notice.
    31. –verb-intransitive
  31. To play on a pipe.
  32. To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.
  33. To chirp or whistle, as a bird does.
  34. Nautical To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.
  35. Metallurgy To develop conical cavities during solidification.
    36. –phrasal-verb
  36. pipe down Slang To stop talking; be quiet.
  37. pipe up To speak up.

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  • This pipe is attached to the bottom of the tank; another pipe was run up through the bottom of tank 9 feet (the tank being 18 feet deep), and carried down to a connection with the main pipe just outside the gate valve.
  • GRACE: And she can also grow up, Dr. July, thinking that smoking pipe from a pot -- smoking pot from a pot pipe is OK.
  • How they took their camping stove and its long tin pipe from the basement, and set it up in the woodshed that, with the little bedroom, completed the cabin, how wood from the cellar presently crackled within, how suitcases were opened by maddening candle-light, and wet boots changed for warm slippers, and wet gowns for thick wrappers.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English pīpe, from Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pīpāre, to chirp.
 

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