Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A system of pipes, such as those used in plumbing.
- n. Music The act of playing on a pipe.
- n. Music The music produced by a pipe when played.
- n. A shrill, high-pitched sound.
- n. A narrow tube of fabric, sometimes enclosing a cord, used for trimming seams and edges, as of slipcovers.
- n. A tubular ribbon of icing on a pastry.
- adj. Music Playing on a pipe.
- adj. Having a high-pitched sound: the piping voices of children.
- adj. Tranquil; peaceful: "in this weak piping time of peace” ( Shakespeare).
- idiom. piping hot Very hot: piping hot biscuits.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of one who pipes.
- n. The sound of playing on a pipe or as on a pipe; the music of pipes.
- n. Weeping; crying.
- n. A system of pipes; pipes, as for gas, water, oil, etc., collectively.
- n. Fluting.
- n. A kind of covered cord used for trimming dresses, especially along seams.
- n. In harness, leather guards or shields encompassing a trace-chain.
- n. A cord-like ornament of icing or frosting on the top of a cake.
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
- n. A way of dressing the hair by curling it around little pins of wood or baked clay called bilboquets.
- n. In metallurgy See pipe, 20.
- 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.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of pipe.
- n. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- n. The sound of musical pipes.
- n. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- n. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- n. An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
- n. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- n. Piped icing on a cake.
- n. botany A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
- n. botany propagation by cuttings
- adj. High-pitched.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Playing on a musical pipe.
- adj. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
- adj. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
- adj. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.
- n. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.
- n. Pipes, collectively.
- n. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.
- n. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. (used of heat) extremely
- n. playing a pipe or the bagpipes
- n. a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
- n. a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
Examples
“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.”
“Venting a fixture when the drain piping is all under the floor, such as a toilet, sometimes requires that the vent be connected to the horizontal drainpipe, when there is not enough room to stack a tee in the vertical riser pipe to the fixture.”
“Away went the sloop, steadying her bow-lines; the call piping belay, as each sail was trimmed to the officer of the deck's fancy.”
“But for some years now a few pairs of threatened coastal birds called piping plovers have taken to hatching their eggs on either side of the beach barrier.”
“In several cases immense gas wells were found near the oil district; but some years elapsed before there occurred to any one the idea of piping it to the nearest manufacturing establishments, which were those about Pittsburg.”
“The flow, which dam engineers call piping, might have carried only a few cubic yards of dirt, or it might be part of a larger failure in the abutment.”
“The head sculpt can rotate 360 degree and comes with light piping, which is a nice touch.”
“While he admits that the idea of piping in computing power from an external service holds appeal for small and medium-sized businesses with fast-growing and unpredictable needs,”
“Federal regulators are calling a piping system problem at a southeastern Connecticut nuclear power plant a "more than minor" safety violation.”
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hernesheir Extruding dough or frosting through a conical piping bag to which a variety of specialized tips designed to produce specific shapes and patterns may be affixed. Jun 17, 2010