Meaning of pipe | Babel Free
ˈpaɪpDefinitions
- Meanings relating to a wind instrument. A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. The key or sound of the voice. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird
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Acronym of private investment in public equity. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- A surname.
- Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
- A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- To stop talking; be quiet.
- An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.
- A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe
- To speak up.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- The key or sound of the voice
- To decorate by applying icing, purée, butter, etc., through a forcing bag and nozzle.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird
- A unit of liquid volume. One pipe equals two Hogsheads.
- Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
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A water pipe. especially
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a person who plays a pipe or pipes, especially the bagpipes. blaasinstrumentspeler زَمّار гайдар gaiteiro pištec, dudák der/die Flötist(in) fløjtespiller; sækkepibespiller αυλητήςflautista; gaitero; músico de un instrumento de viento vilemängija, torupillimängija نوازنده فلوت یا نی pillipiipari joueur/-euse de cornemuse חָלִילָן मुरली बजाने वाला gajdaš, svirač dudás peniup seruling sekkjapípuleikar pifferaio, suonatore/suonatrice di cornamusa 笛を吹く人 피리 연주자 dūdininkas stabulētājs; dūdinieks pen... especially
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- bagpipes or some similar instrument. He plays the pipes. doedelsak القِرَب гайда gaita de foles dudy der Dudelsack sækkepibe γκάινταgaita torupill نی انبان säkkipilli cornemuse חֵמֶת-חָלִילִים बैगपाइप या उससे मिलता-जुलता यंत्र gajde duda seruling sekkjapípur cornamusa バグパイプ 백파이프 dūdmaišis stabulētājs; dūdinieks begpaip doedelzaksekkepipedudy پایپ gaita de foles cimpoi волынка gajdy dude frula säckpipa ปี่ gayda 風笛 волинка بين باجا kèn túi 风笛
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A man's penis. slang
- (of a sound) high-pitched. a piping voice. piepend عالي الصَّوْت писукащ estridente pisklavý schrill pibende στριγκός, διαπεραστικόςagudo viiksuv دارای صدای زیر piipittävä flûté צַרחַנִי चिंघाड़ cvrkut éles melengking skær, skerandi flutuato かん高い 새된 spiegiamas, cypiamas spiedzīgs; čiepstošs nyaring piep- pipende, skjærende piszczący جیګه آواز aflautado ascuţit пискливый piskľavý piskajoč piskav pipande, pipig ซึ่งมีเสียงสูงหรือเสียงแหลม ince, tiz 尖聲的 писклявий تيز آواز cao lanh lảnh 尖声的
- Meanings relating to a container.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- an idea which can only be imagined, and which would be impossible to carry out. For most people a journey round the world is only a pipe dream. onbereikbare droom أوْهام، تَخَيُّلات неосъществима мечта sonho vidina das Hirngespinst ønskedrøm χίμαιρα sueño imposible, castillos en el aire soovunelm رویا toiveuni château en Espagne חָלוֹם בְאַספּמיָא मन के लड्डू, झोंक pusti snovi, prazno maštanje vágyálom khayalan draumórar (progetto irrealizzabile) 空想 공상적인 생각 nepasiekiama svajonė fantāzija; nep...
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
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a long line of pipes used for conveying oil, gas, water etc. an oil pipeline across the desert. pypleiding خَط أنابيب النَّفْط тръбопровод duto potrubí die Pipeline rørledning; pipeline αγωγός tubería, cañería; oleoducto; gaseoducto torustik خط لوله putkisto oléoduc, pipeline קַו צָנֶרֶת नल cjevovod csővezeték jalur pipa rörlögn conduttura, tubazione パイプライン 수송관 vamzdynas cauruļvads talian paip pijpleiding rørledning/-nett rurociąg د پایپ پری gasoduto, oleoduto conductă трубопровод potrubie ce... etc
- Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- very hot. piping hot soup. baie warm ساخِن جِدا горещ escaldante vařící brühendheiß brændende varm ζεματιστός muy/bien caliente tulikuum بسیار داغ tulinen brûlant חַם מְאוֹד बहुत गरम vreo tűzforró sangat panas sjóðandi heitur bollente とても辛い 대단히 뜨거운 labai karštas ļoti karsts panas menggelegak kokend heet glovarm, rykende varmwrzący, parzący سور (ګرم)، سوځند، اېشند ډېرتود escaldante foarte fierbinte обжигающий vriaci, vrelý vrel veoma toplo rykande varm ร้อนมาก çok sıcak, dumanı üstünde 滾燙的 дуж...
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- One of the goalposts of the goal.
- An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
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An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies. Australia, colloquial, historical
- Meanings relating to computing.
- A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
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A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. slang
- The character |.
- Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
- A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
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The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe. Canada, US, colloquial, historical
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A telephone. slang
Equivalents
العربية
الإنبوب
Español
banda ancha
chimenea
coditos
codos
encaje
fierro
orla
pleca
ribete
tubería
tubo
tubo de órgano
Suomi
letku
maalitolppa
päärme
piipitys
purkauskanava
putki
pystyviiva
suoni
torvi
urkupilli
viserrys
Gaeilge
píopa
Bahasa Indonesia
pipa
Íslenska
aðfærsluæð
日本語
パイプ
한국어
파이프
Македонски
дудлец
Bahasa Melayu
paip
Kiswahili
digali
Türkçe
biye
Examples
“Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side, The summer's gone and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.”
“Most theater organs use many sets (ranks) of reed and flue pipes of various shapes, pipe scales, and so forth to generate a variety of timbres.”
“For they ſhall yet belye thy happy yeeres, That ſay thou art a man: Dianas lip Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmall pipe Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound, And all is ſemblatiue a womans part.”
“Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.”
“A standard Flight Refuelling Ltd Mk 8 probe nozzle was attached to the probe structural tube and fuel pipe. The pipe was double-walled, and passed through into the fuselage aft of the flight deck; […] A non-return valve was fitted within the fuel pipe aft of the probe nozzle, thus preventing any leakage of fuel if the aircraft lost the probe nozzle inadvertently.”
“A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.”
“Corrosion control can be accomplished in distribution systems by adding compounds that form a protective film on the pipe surface, thereby providing a barrier between the water and the pipe.”
“Amongst the vessels of the human body, the pipe which conveys the saliva from the place where it is made, to the place where it is wanted, deserves to be reckoned amongst the most intelligible pieces of mechanism with which we are acquainted.”
“He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me […]”
“He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it.”
“He laughed as he knelt down between Duncan's splayed thighs and tore open a packaged condom, then rolled it down over his big fuck-pipe.”
“Meronym: pipestave”
“Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.”
“My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.”
“Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31½ gallons, a rundlet 18½ gallons.”
“While the pipe of a conventional volcano may extend down 50 miles or so, the volcanic pipes that pick up diamonds along the way had to go much deeper, perhaps as deep as 300 miles.”
“Some researchers think that the warming was caused as kimberlite pipes (volcanic vents originating deep in the Earth’s mantle) reached the surface near Lac de Gras in northern Canada and released huge amounts of carbon.”
“On Thursday Mr. William Bland, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, […] was brought to trial on a charge of libelling the Governor [Lachlan Macquarie], by the composition and publishing of various letters and verses contained in a manuscript book dropped on the Parramatta Road—and thence brought to light. […] [H]owever lenient the sentence passed upon this young man, yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. Wm. Cluer [an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill.”
“A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.”
“While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.”
“Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.”
“In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass.”
““Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.””
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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