The meaning of Pipe

noun

A low-pitched, resonant sound of the kind made by a large bell.

Usage examples:

The clock had struck the hour and it was only three bongs

verb

(especially of a bell) emit a low-pitched, resonant sound.

Usage examples:

Several eyes looked at the clock, its trusty chimes bonged 3: 00.

noun

A water pipe used for smoking cannabis or other drugs.

Usage examples:

In the ten years since first trying cannabis, i have been a regular smoker of pure, high quality ca…

verb

Take or go with (someone or something) to a place.

Usage examples:

She brought luke home from hospital

verb

To take or carry someone or something to a place or a person, or in the direction of the person speaking

Usage examples:

Bring me that book./bring that book to me., i brought my daughter to the office., [ m ] next time y…

verb

To make something come to a particular place, point, or level

Usage examples:

Producers need to bring oil production to levels that create more stable and more sustainable oil p…

noun

An evergreen tropical american tree which bears fruit in the form of large woody gourds.

Usage examples:

On lovers' lane nearby, some young men and women were flirting, while in the corner under a calabas…

noun

Another term for kalian.

noun

A north american indian peace pipe.

Usage examples:

Before hiawatha's story begins, we are introduced to the master of life and one of his gifts to mor…

noun

An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.

Usage examples:

They travelled on by canal

noun

A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.

Usage examples:

The bay includes saltmarsh, shallow and open water, tidal channels, mudflats and numerous islands, …

verb

Direct towards a particular end or object.

Usage examples:

The council is to channel public funds into training schemes

noun

A passage for water or other liquids to flow along, or a part of a river or other area of water that is deep and wide enough to provide a route for ships to travel along

Usage examples:

The english channel, she switched to another channel to watch the news., we’ve established a regula…

noun

A person who chants something.

Usage examples:

But the chanters wear pinstripes and not patchouli oil.

verb

Talk informally about unimportant matters.

Usage examples:

She was chattering about her holiday

noun

Informal talk.

Usage examples:

He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter

verb

To talk continuously and usually for no serious purpose

Usage examples:

The boys and girls kept chattering during the movie., birds chattered in the trees., the printer wa…

noun

A short, high squeaky cry made by a young bird.

Usage examples:

As you follow it along the street you begin to hear the cheeps and trills of other birds launching …

verb

Make a short, high squeaky sound.

Usage examples:

Sparrows are cheeping all around

noun

The high, weak cry made by a young bird

Usage examples:

Six weeks have passed and the birds still cheep like chicks., a brood of ducklings, which had lost …

noun

A long turkish tobacco pipe.

Usage examples:

Walking along, smoking his chibouque and smelling the flowers, he came to a baking-oven by the road…

noun

A hookah.

Usage examples:

I personally knew somebody who was in the afghanni hills with the mujaheddin at the time of the lat…

verb

(of a small bird or an insect) make a short, sharp, high-pitched sound.

Usage examples:

Outside, the crickets chirped monotonously

noun

A short, sharp, high-pitched sound.

Usage examples:

The chirps and whirrs of insects

verb

(esp. of a bird) to make a short high sound or sounds

verb

(of a small bird) make repeated short, high-pitched sounds.

Usage examples:

A bird chirruped intermittently outside

noun

A short, high-pitched sound.

Usage examples:

The chirrups of the crickets

verb

(esp. of a bird) to make a short high sound or sounds

noun

Either of the two elected lay representatives in an anglican parish, formally responsible for movable church property and for keeping order in church.

Usage examples:

Villagers played an essential role in the upkeep of the local church and its property, which was ha…

noun

A channel for conveying water or other fluid.

Usage examples:

Nearby springs supplied the conduit which ran into the brewery

noun

A way of connecting two places, systems, etc.

Usage examples:

There is growth in sales to hong kong, the conduit for exports to the rest of the area., conduit be…

verb

Transport or carry to a place.

Usage examples:

Pipes were laid to convey water to the house

noun

A person or thing that transports or communicates something.

Usage examples:

A conveyor of information

noun

A continuous moving strip or surface that is used in the process of producing goods in a factory and for transporting objects from one part of a building to another

Usage examples:

If a conveyor belt moves too fast, parts may be damaged or the workers may not be able to keep up.,…

adjective

Short or shortened.

Usage examples:

They carried wee cutty ladders

noun

A short tobacco pipe.

noun

A solid geometrical figure with straight parallel sides and a circular or oval cross section.

Usage examples:

Narnia uses stencil shadows generated from implicit geometry representations such as cylinders and …

noun

A surface generated by rotating a line around a fixed line

verb

Cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry.

Usage examples:

We drained the swimming pool

noun

A channel or pipe carrying off surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.

Usage examples:

The room's toilet pipes and shower drains carry this waste to a holding tank.

verb

Emptying something by allowing liquid to run out of it

verb

Make a continuous low humming sound.

Usage examples:

In the far distance a machine droned

noun

A continuous low humming sound.

Usage examples:

He nodded off to the drone of the car engine

noun

A low, continuous noise

Usage examples:

I could hear the drone of an airplane., the radio droned in the background while we talked.

noun

A tube or passageway in a building or machine for air, liquid, cables, etc.

Usage examples:

Leading the air through ducts in the floor

verb

Convey through a duct.

Usage examples:

A ventilation system that must be ducted through the wall

noun

A tube or pipe in a building that carries liquid or air or protects wires

Usage examples:

Air conditioning requires ventilating ducts., tear ducts

noun

A short clay tobacco pipe.

Usage examples:

I can imagine patrick going off to some neighbouring farmer's house, where the dudeen would be hand…

verb

Give food to.

Usage examples:

Did you remember to feed the cat?

noun

An act of giving food, especially to animals or a baby, or of having food given to one.

Usage examples:

The baby's morning feed

verb

Make a payment to (someone) in return for services.

noun

A kind of small shrill flute used with the drum in military bands.

Usage examples:

The air came alive with the shrill whistling of the fifes, and the drums began pounding in rhythm w…

verb

Play the fife.

Usage examples:

His deep interest in irish culture and music prompted his research into the lambeg drumming and fif…

proper noun

A council area and former county of east central scotland; administrative centre, glenrothes.

noun

An abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow or tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow or tubular organs.

Usage examples:

However, if a serious duct injury is present, a chronic fistula may develop and require surgical in…

noun

An abnormal opening or passage from one organ to another or from an organ to the skin surface

Usage examples:

An anal fistula, gas in the bladder may be related to a fistula between the bladder and the colon.

noun

A wind instrument made from a tube with holes that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally (in which case it is also called a transverse flute) so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge. the modern orchestral form is a transverse flute, typically made of metal, with an elaborate set of keys.

Usage examples:

Reading the literature, one can hear fiddles, wood flutes, bagpipes, guitar, mandolins and bodhráns.

verb

A wind instrument made from a tube with holes that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally (in which case it is also called a transverse flute ) so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge. the modern orchestral form is a transverse flute, typically made of metal, with an elaborate set of keys.

noun

A tube-shaped musical instrument with a row of holes along its side that are covered by the fingers to vary the notes and played by blowing into a hole near one end, or this type of instrument generally

noun

An oriental tobacco pipe with a long, flexible tube which draws the smoke through water contained in a bowl.

noun

A type of pipe that brings smoke through a container of water before it is breathed in

noun

A flexible tube conveying water, used chiefly for watering plants and in firefighting.

Usage examples:

A sprinkler hose

verb

Water or spray with a hose.

Usage examples:

He was hosing down the driveway

verb

Cause (a person or animal) to go with one by holding them by the hand, a halter, a rope, etc. while moving forward.

Usage examples:

She emerged leading a bay horse

noun

The initiative in an action; an example for others to follow.

Usage examples:

Britain is now taking the lead in environmental policies

noun

A soft, heavy, ductile bluish-grey metal, the chemical element of atomic number 82. it has been used in roofing, plumbing, ammunition, storage batteries, radiation shields, etc., and its compounds have been used in crystal glass, as an anti-knock agent in petrol, and (formerly) in paints.

Usage examples:

There's evidence that heavy metals such as lead and cadmium can make osteoporosis worse.

noun

A long, narrow mark or band.

Usage examples:

A row of closely spaced dots will look like a continuous line

verb

Stand or be positioned at intervals along.

Usage examples:

A processional route lined by people waving flags

verb

Cover the inside surface of (a container or garment) with a layer of different material.

Usage examples:

A basket lined with polythene

adjective

Chief in size or importance.

Usage examples:

A main road

noun

A principal pipe carrying water or gas to buildings, or taking sewage from them.

Usage examples:

A faulty gas main

noun

(in the game of hazard) a number (5, 6, 7, 8, or 9) called by a player before dice are thrown.

noun

A soft white claylike material consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate, found chiefly in turkey.

Usage examples:

Like dupin, dr. bender smokes a meerschaum pipe, filled with cheap tobacco.

noun

An oriental tobacco pipe with a long tube that draws the smoke through water; a hookah.

verb

Look quickly and furtively at something, especially through a narrow opening.

Usage examples:

His door was ajar and she couldn't resist peeping in

noun

A quick or furtive look.

Usage examples:

Jonathan took a little peep at his watch

verb

Make a brief, high-pitched sound.

Usage examples:

Don peeped on his whistle

noun

A long pipe, typically underground, for conveying oil, gas, etc. over long distances.

Usage examples:

Stretching over 895 kilometres, the pipeline will convey gas from mozambican gas fields to south af…

verb

Convey (a substance) by a pipeline.

Usage examples:

Oil and gas were pipelined to refineries in toronto

noun

A series of connected tubes for transporting gas, oil, or water, usually over long distances

noun

Lengths of pipe made of metal, plastic, or other materials.

Usage examples:

It was replaced at half time by a length of plastic piping that is normally used as a goal post dur…

adjective

High-pitched.

Usage examples:

The piping voice of a little girl

verb

Convey (water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances) through a pipe or pipes.

Usage examples:

Water from the lakes is piped to manchester

noun

An apparatus for recording sound, pictures, or data.

Usage examples:

I was talking away into my recorder

noun

A musical instrument consisting of a wooden tube with holes along its length that are covered by the fingers to vary the notes and played by blowing into one end, or this type of instrument generally

verb

Move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time.

Usage examples:

The dog ran across the road

noun

An act or spell of running.

Usage examples:

I usually go for a run in the morning

verb

Move fast by using one's feet

adjective

(of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing.

Usage examples:

A shrill laugh

verb

Make a shrill noise.

Usage examples:

A piercing whistle shrilled through the night air

noun

A shrill sound or cry.

Usage examples:

The shrill of a smoke detector filled the air

verb

Make musical sounds with the voice, especially words with a set tune.

Usage examples:

Bella sang to the baby

noun

An act or spell of singing.

Usage examples:

We asked him to come back and have a bit of a sing

abbreviation

Singular.

noun

A tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

Usage examples:

In the extinguisher, a plastic siphon tube leads from the bottom of the fire-suppressant reservoir …

verb

Draw off or convey (liquid) by means of a siphon.

Usage examples:

A piece of tubing was used to siphon petrol

noun

A tube that is bent in the shape of an "n", with each end in a separate container at two different levels, so that liquid can be pulled up into it from the higher container and go down through it into the lower container

noun

A short, high-pitched sound or cry.

Usage examples:

The door opened with a slight squeak

verb

Make a high-pitched sound or cry.

Usage examples:

He oiled the hinges to stop them squeaking

verb

Make a high-pitched, screeching noise

noun

A long, high-pitched cry or noise.

Usage examples:

They drew up with a squeal of brakes

verb

Make a squeal.

Usage examples:

The girls squealed with delight

verb

To make a long, very high sound or cry

Usage examples:

[ i ] the tires squealed as i sped away., [ t ] "this is awesome," mary lou squealed in her coach’s…

verb

Make a series of sounds by blowing a horn, trumpet, or similar instrument.

Usage examples:

He tootled on the horn

noun

An act or sound of blowing a horn, trumpet, or similar instrument.

Usage examples:

The tootle and thump of the band

verb

To go, especially to drive, slowly

Usage examples:

The car in front was just tootling along through the beautiful scenery.

noun

A quavering or vibratory sound, especially a rapid alternation of sung or played notes.

Usage examples:

The caged bird launched into a piercing trill

verb

Produce a quavering or warbling sound.

Usage examples:

A skylark was trilling overhead

adjective

(in african american usage) genuine and authentic, especially as a result of being rooted in urban subculture.

Usage examples:

They knew they were going to grind hard and get rich and they did it. they also stayed trill in the…

noun

A long, hollow cylinder of metal, plastic, glass, etc. for holding or transporting something, chiefly liquids or gases.

Usage examples:

A plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled

verb

Fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.

Usage examples:

The charge stemmed from his failure to properly record how he treated hip wolf on the day she was a…

noun

A length or lengths of metal, plastic, glass, etc., in tubular form.

Usage examples:

Use the plastic tubing to siphon the beer into the bottles

verb

Fit (a person or animal) with a tube to assist breathing, especially after a laryngotomy.

noun

Material in the form of a tube or tubes

Usage examples:

Rubber tubing can perish after a few years.

verb

(of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds.

Usage examples:

Sparrows twittered under the eaves

noun

A series of short, high-pitched calls or sounds.

Usage examples:

His words were cut off by a faint electronic twitter

noun

The name of a social networking site on the internet for communicating with people quickly

verb

(of a bird) sing softly and with a succession of constantly changing notes.

Usage examples:

Larks were warbling in the trees

noun

A warbling sound or utterance.

Usage examples:

Through the wall came a faint warble

noun

A swelling or abscess beneath the skin on the back of cattle, horses, and other mammals, caused by the presence of the larva of a warble fly.

Usage examples:

Deregulating the rendering process and/or dosing cattle for warbles with organo-phosphates gave us …

noun

A clear, high-pitched sound made by forcing breath through a small hole between partly closed lips, or between one's teeth.

Usage examples:

As was expected, his special appearance was greeted with whistles and applause that reverberated th…

verb

Emit a clear, high-pitched sound by forcing breath through a small hole between one's lips or teeth.

Usage examples:

The audience cheered and whistled

verb

The sound made when someone forces breath through pursed lips