Found 3 items, similar to pipe.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: pipe bis, pipa
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pipe pipe n 1: a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco [syn: tobacco pipe] 2: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. [syn: pipage, piping] 3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn: tube] 4: a tubular wind instrument [syn: tabor pipe] 5: the flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn: organ pipe, pipework] pipe v 1: utter a shrill cry [syn: shriek, shrill, pipe up] 2: transport by pipeline; “pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert” 3: play on a pipe; “pipe a tune” 4: trim with piping; “pipe the skirt”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pipe Pipe \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[=i]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.] 1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. “Tunable as sylvan pipe.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. [1913 Webster] 4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. [1913 Webster] 5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. [1913 Webster] The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore. [1913 Webster] 9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster] 10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. [1913 Webster] 11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. [1913 Webster] Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe. Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.] Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; -- called also pipe privet. Pipe wrench, or Pipe tongs, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it. To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the American Indians. [1913 Webster] Pipe \Pipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piped; p. pr. & vb. n. Piping.] 1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. [1913 Webster] A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. [1913 Webster] As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft. --Marryat. [1913 Webster] 3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building. [1913 Webster] Pipe \Pipe\, v. i. 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. [1913 Webster] We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced. --Matt. xi. 17. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. [1913 Webster] 3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. “Oft in the piping shrouds.” --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel. [1913 Webster]