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/ˈpaɪp/

noun 6verb 5name 2

Collocations

(noun.) hollow tube that carries gas/liquid

ADJ

underground

gas, sewage, waste, water

The city had to replace all the old sewage pipes under the main street last year.

brake, central heating, hose (also hosepipe) | drainage, drain (also drainpipe) | exhaust, inlet, outfall, outflow, outlet, overflow, service, supply | blocked, broken, burst, cracked, frozen, leaking | concrete, copper, iron, lead, metal, plastic, steel

QUANT

length

We need to cut several lengths of pipe for the new bathroom installation.

VERB + PIPE

lay, run

We need to run new pipes through the walls before we can install the kitchen.

connect

insulate, lag

We need to lag the pipes in the basement before winter arrives.

PIPE + VERB

lead, pass through sth, run

Water pipes run beneath the street to supply homes in the neighborhood.

burst, freeze, leak

PIPE + NOUN

cutter, fitter | insulation

PREP

through a/the ~

~ for

The plumber installed a new pipe for the kitchen sink yesterday.

~ from, ~ to

Water flows through the pipe to the kitchen sink every morning.

(noun.) used for smoking tobacco

ADJ

clay | peace

VERB + PIPE

smoke | light | fill | draw on, puff away at/on, puff on

knock out

She knocked out her pipe before entering the museum.

PIPE + NOUN

smoker | tobacco | rack

PHRASES

the bowl/stem of a pipe

Definitions

noun

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

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.

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

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.

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

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.

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

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.

Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

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.

verb

To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

[T]he pide Piper with a ſhrill pipe went piping through the ſtreets, and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houſes in great numbers after him; all which hee led into the riuer of Weaſer and therein drowned them.

Piping down the valleys wild / Piping songs of pleasant glee / On a cloud I saw a child. / And he laughing said to me / Pipe a song about a Lamb: / So I piped with merry chear. / Piper pipe that song again – / So I piped, he wept to hear.

To shout loudly and at high pitch.

"Ar—cher—Ja—cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.

To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

[W]ith the mariners A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd Among the mountains, and he in his heart Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas. Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds Of caves and trees: […]

Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

name

A surname.

An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the flues and stops on a pipe organ

pipework

noun — a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry w

pipage
piping

noun — a hollow cylindrical shape

tube

verb — utter a shrill cry

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

pipe dream

A desire or idea which is unlikely to materialize, or a plan which is unlikely to work; a near impossibility.

I think that his plan to become a professional athlete is a pipe dream and that he should stay in school.

pipe down

To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy.

Pipe down, children. I'm trying to work.

put that in your pipe and smoke it

Used after stating something surprising or undesired, in order to emphasize its truth.

You musht know that I om (do you take me? see!) an owld rubble that has found marsee and purteckshin from ago-burn-mint, that mite very justly have scent me and awl my comerogues,

pipe the eye

To weep.

He first began to eye his pipe, / And then to pipe his eye.

pipe in

To supply (a product or substance) via pipes.

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Piping down the valleys wild / Piping songs of pleasant glee / On a cloud I saw a child. / And he laughing said to me / Pipe a song about a Lamb: / So I piped with merry chear. / Piper pipe that song

Wiktionary

"Ar—cher—Ja—cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.

Wiktionary

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