Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 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 A tubular part or organ of the body.
- noun The passages of the human respiratory system.
- noun A wine cask having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).
- noun This volume as a unit of liquid measure.
- 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 Informal The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.
- noun A birdcall.
- noun Nautical A whistle used for signaling crew members.
- 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 Geology An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.
- noun Metallurgy A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.
- 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 To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.
- intransitive verb To lead by playing on pipes.
- 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 Slang 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 Nautical To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.
- intransitive verb Metallurgy To develop conical cavities during solidification.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
peep . - noun An obsolete form of
pip . - noun See the extract.
- To chirp, whistle, warble, or sing, as a bird.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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With respect to your initial reader's implementation while read line < $pipe it seems to be a valid piece (meaning the redirection is pertinent to the "read", now the while loop; where the pipe would have been opened once.)
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Says Jeff Blumenfeld, editor of Expedition News, "An-Tiki has given new meaning to the term 'pipe dream.'"
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My first one in the pipe is a no. 4, followed by 2 no. 5's.
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My first one in the pipe is a no. 4, followed by 2 no. 5's.
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That is, you provide what we call the pipe, broadband, but now for those who use it want to get it for either free or at a very low price?
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That is, you provide what we call the pipe, broadband, but now for those who use it want to get it for either free or at a very low price?
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That is, you provide what we call the pipe, broadband, but now for those who use it want to get it for either free or at a very low price?
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That is, you provide what we call the pipe, broadband, but now for those who use it want to get it for either free or at a very low price?
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And at the time, authorities there, the sheriff's office said that they found some what they described as pipe-bomb-like devices in their vehicle.
whichbe commented on the word pipe
as punctuation, this is also known as 'vertical' or 'broken bar'.
April 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word pipe
What came up on a search of the Library of Congress for this word.
Edit: another one.
Edit 2: This one looks snobby.
September 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pipe
Oh, that wacky LoC.
September 19, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word pipe
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
September 19, 2008
actung commented on the word pipe
A Portuguese oak barrel with the capacity of 145 gallons (550 liters).
September 11, 2011