Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PIPE
PIPE
Definitions of PIPE
- Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
- Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
- Meanings relating to a container.
- Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
- Meanings relating to computing.
- Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
- (slang) A telephone.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (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.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To see.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- A surname.
- A unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.
- Acronym of private investment in public equity.
Number of letters
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Is palindrome
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Examples of Using PIPE in a Sentence
- Pipe Creek crosses the city south of its center, flowing southwest to join the White River at Perkinsville.
- Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a pipe, the random motion of particles in the air, and the number of fish each springtime in a lake.
- Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of normally 20-pipe nai, with 22, 25, 28 or even 30 pipes, to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additional to the fundamental tone) from each pipe by changing his embouchure.
- The organ was originally marketed by the Hammond Organ Company to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, or instead of a piano.
- When a fluid is flowing through a closed channel such as a pipe or between two flat plates, either of two types of flow may occur depending on the velocity and viscosity of the fluid: laminar flow or turbulent flow.
- Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine (acoustic and electric piano, clavichord), plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell (carillon), or activating an electronic circuit (synthesizer, digital piano, electronic keyboard).
- This increase has caused many people to switch to using pipe tobacco to make cigarettes, since the pipe tobacco tax rate was also increased, but only to $2.
- "PHY Interface for PCI Express" (PIPE), the name of a specification for the PCI Express physical layer.
- Propellers are used to pump fluid through a pipe or duct, or to create thrust to propel a boat through water or an aircraft through air.
- Registration (organ), the art of combining the different sounds of a pipe organ to produce the desired sound.
- A bong (also known as a water pipe) is a filtration device generally used for smoking cannabis, tobacco, or other herbal substances.
- Choirs may sing without instruments, or accompanied by a piano, accordion, pipe organ, a small ensemble, or an orchestra.
- Lucas John Helder (born May 5, 1981) also known as the Midwest Pipe Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist and former University of Wisconsin–Stout student from Pine Island, Minnesota.
- CWA workers laid 12 million feet of sewer pipe and built or improved 255,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3,700 playgrounds, and nearly 1,000 airports.
- In the hydraulic analogy, current flowing through a wire (or resistor) is like water flowing through a pipe, and the voltage drop across the wire is like the pressure drop that pushes water through the pipe.
- Hydraulic topics range through some parts of science and most of engineering modules, and they cover concepts such as pipe flow, dam design, fluidics, and fluid control circuitry.
- Jarret John "JJ" Thomas (born April 6, 1981) is an American snowboard coach and former professional competitor for the US half pipe team.
- Several important industries brought prosperity to the area including stoneware potteries, sewer pipe manufacturing, the match industry and, most recently, the tire and rubber industry.
- Pima County contains parts of the Tohono O'odham Nation, as well as all of the San Xavier Indian Reservation, the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument and Saguaro National Park.
- He usually appears as an old man on a crutch or with a cane, wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat and smoking a pipe, or drinking dark rum.
- In 1944, the county's first major manufacturer—D&P Pipe Works—opened after relocating from Chicago to Sparta to be closer to supplies of local mountain laurel roots which were used during World War II in the production of wooden tobacco pipes.
- When they all came, Nanapush created a pipe with a sumac branch and a soapstone bowl, and the creator gave him Tobacco to smoke with.
- Core Energy Corporation, Consolidated Pipe and Supply, Boxvayna, Appleatcha Apple Orchard, CZAR Coal and Offices for Booth Energy and subsidies.
- Important paleontological discoveries, dating from the Pliocene epoch, have been made at the Pipe Creek Sinkhole in Grant County.
- It appears as ‘Beacles’ circa 1095 in a document from Bury St Edmunds Abbey, and as ‘Beclis’ in 1157 and ‘Becclis’ in 1158 in the Pipe Rolls.
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