piping

noun

1. pipes collectively; a system or network of pipes.
2. material formed into a pipe or pipes.
3. the act of a person or thing that pipes.
4. the sound of pipes.
5. a shrill sound.
6. the music of pipes.
7. a cordlike ornamentation made of icing, used on pastry.
8. a tubular band of ornamental material, sometimes containing a cord, used for trimming the edges and seams of clothing, upholstery, etc.

adjective

9. characterized by the peaceful music of the pipe.
10. playing on a musical pipe.
11. that pipes.
12. emitting a shrill sound: a piping voice.

Idioms

13. piping hot, (of food or drink) very hot.

noun

1. a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
2. a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
3. a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
4. Music.
   1. a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument.
   2. a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe.
   3. one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced.
   4. a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum.
5. Nautical.
   1. boatswain’s pipe.
   2. the sound of a boatswain’s pipe.
6. the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
7. pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, especially as used in singing.
8. Usually pipes.
   1. Music.bagpipe.
   2. a set of flutes, as a panpipe.
   3. Informal.a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, especially a respiratory passage: to complain of congested pipes.
9. any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
10. Mining.
    1. a cylindrical vein or body of ore.
    2. (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
11. Metallurgy. a depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold.
12. Botany. the stem of a plant.

verb (used without object), piped, pip·ing.

13. to play on a pipe.
14. Nautical. to signal, as with a boatswain’s pipe.
15. to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
16. to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe: songbirds piping at dawn.

verb (used with object), piped, pip·ing.

17. to convey by or as by pipes: to pipe water from the lake.
18. to supply with pipes.
19. to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
20. to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain’s pipe or whistle: all hands were piped on deck.
21. to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe: to pipe dancers.
22. to utter in a shrill tone: to pipe a command.
23. to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
24. Cookery. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
25. Informal. to convey by an electrical wire or cable: to pipe a signal from the antenna.
26. Slang. to look at; notice: Pipe the cat in the hat.

Verb Phrases

27. pipe down, Slang. to stop talking; be quiet: He shouted at us to pipe down.
28. pipe up,
    1. to begin to play (a musical instrument) or to sing.
    2. to make oneself heard; speak up, especially as to assert oneself.
    3. to increase in velocity, as the wind.

noun

1. pipes collectively, esp pipes formed into a connected system, as in the plumbing of a house
2. a cord of icing, whipped cream, etc, often used to decorate desserts and cakes
3. a thin strip of covered cord or material, used to edge hems, etc
4. the sound of a pipe or a set of bagpipes
5. the art or technique of playing a pipe or bagpipes
6. a shrill voice or sound, esp a whistling sound

adjective

7. making a shrill sound
8. archaic relating to the pipe (associated with peace), as opposed to martial instruments, such as the fife or trumpet

adverb

9. piping hot extremely hot

noun

1. a long tube of metal, plastic, etc, used to convey water, oil, gas, etc
2. a long tube or case
3. 1. an object made in any of various shapes and sizes, consisting of a small bowl with an attached tubular stem, in which tobacco or other substances are smoked
   2. (as modifier)a pipe bowl
4. Also called: pipeful the amount of tobacco that fills the bowl of a pipe
5. zoology botany any of various hollow organs, such as the respiratory passage of certain animals
6. 1. any musical instrument whose sound production results from the vibration of an air column in a simple tube
   2. any of the tubular devices on an organ, in which air is made to vibrate either directly, as in a flue pipe, or by means of a reed
7. an obsolete three-holed wind instrument, held in the left hand while played and accompanied by the taborSee tabor
8. the pipes See bagpipes
9. a shrill voice or sound, as of a bird
10. 1. a boatswain’s pipe
    2. the sound it makes
11. (plural) informal the respiratory tract or vocal cords
12. metallurgy a conical hole in the head of an ingot, made by escaping gas as the metal cools
13. a cylindrical vein of rich ore, such as one of the vertical diamond-bearing veins at Kimberley, South Africa
14. Also called: volcanic pipe a vertical cylindrical passage in a volcano through which molten lava is forced during eruption
15. US slang something easy to do, esp a simple course in college
16. put that in your pipe and smoke it informal accept that fact if you can

verb

17. to play (music) on a pipe
18. (tr) to summon or lead by a pipeto pipe the dancers
19. to utter (something) shrilly
20. 1. to signal orders to (the crew) by a boatswain’s pipe
    2. (tr)to signal the arrival or departure ofto pipe the admiral aboard
21. (tr) to convey (water, gas, etc) by a pipe or pipes
22. (tr) to provide with pipes
23. (tr) to trim (an article, esp of clothing) with piping
24. (tr) to force (cream, icing, etc) through a shaped nozzle to decorate food

noun

1. a large cask for wine, oil, etc
2. a measure of capacity for wine equal to four barrels. 1 pipe is equal to 126 US gallons or 105 Brit gallons
3. a cask holding this quantity with its contents

n1.Old English pipe “musical wind instrument,” also “tube to convey water,” from Vulgar Latin *pipa “a pipe, tube-shaped musical instrument” (source of Italian pipa, French pipe, Old Frisian pipe, German Pfeife, Danish pibe, Swedish pipa, Dutch pijp), a back-formation from Latin pipare “to chirp or peep,” of imitative origin. All tubular senses ultimately derive from “small reed, whistle.” Meaning “device for smoking” first recorded 1590s. Pipe-bomb attested from 1960. Pipe-cleaner recorded from 1863. v.Old English pipian “to play on a pipe,” from Latin pipare “to peep, chirp” (see pipe (n.1)). Cf. Dutch pijpen, German pfeifen. Meaning “convey through pipes” is first recorded 1887. Related: Piped; piping. Piping hot is in Chaucer, a reference to hissing of food in a frying pan; to pipe up (early 15c.) originally meant “to begin to play” (on a musical instrument); sense of “to speak out” is from 1856. Pipe down “be quiet” is from 1900; earlier in nautical jargon it meant “use a boatswain’s whistle to dismiss the men from duty” (1833). n.2type of cask, early 14c., from Old French pipe “liquid measure, cask for wine,” from a special use of Vulgar Latin *pipa “pipe” (see pipe (n.1)).

1. A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.
2. See volcanic pipe.

In addition to the idioms beginning with pipe

pipe down

pipe dream

pipe up

also see:

in the pipeline

lead-pipe cinch

put that in your pipe