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▸ noun: (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
▸ noun: (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
▸ noun: The key or sound of the voice.
▸ noun: A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
▸ noun: Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
▸ noun: A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
▸ noun: (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
▸ noun: A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
▸ noun: (slang) A man's penis.
▸ noun: Meanings relating to a container.
▸ noun: A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
▸ noun: The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
▸ noun: Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
▸ noun: (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
▸ noun: (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
▸ noun: (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
▸ noun: (Australia, colloquial, historical) 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.
▸ noun: Meanings relating to computing.
▸ noun: (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
▸ noun: (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
▸ noun: (computing, typography) The character |.
▸ noun: Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
▸ noun: (smoking) 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.
▸ noun: (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
▸ noun: (slang) A telephone.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
▸ verb: (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
▸ verb: (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
▸ verb: (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
▸ verb: (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
▸ verb: (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
▸ verb: (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang, dated) To see.
▸ verb: (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.
▸ noun: (finance) Acronym of private investment in public equity.
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organ pipe,
screech,
shriek,
shrill,
pipe up,
pipework,
pipage,
tobacco pipe,
tube,
tabor pipe,
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