pipe
see also: Pipe, PIPE
Etymology
Pipe
Etymology
PIPE
Noun
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see also: Pipe, PIPE
Etymology
From Middle English pipe, pype ("hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll"), from Old English pīpe, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pipe, from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe.
The verb is from Middle English pipen, pypyn ("to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone"), from Old English pīpian.
Pronunciation Nounpipe (plural pipes)
- Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
- (musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. [from 14th c.]
- The key or sound of the voice. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene iv], page 257 ↗, column 2:
- 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.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird. [from 18th c.]
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part IV”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, pages 66–67 ↗:
- 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 rigid tube that transports water, steam
or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.] - (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. [from 14th c.]
- (slang) A man's penis.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam
- Meanings relating to a container.
A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.) [from 14th c.] - Meronym: pipestave
- 1808–10, William Hickey (memoirist), Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 329:
- Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.
The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun. [from 14th c.]
- Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
- 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. [from 15th c.]
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia. [from 19th c.]
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. [from 17th c.]
- (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. [from 19th c.]
- Meanings relating to computing.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. [from 20th c.]
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. [from 20th c.]
- A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
- (computing, typography) The character ''. [from 20th c.]
- Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
- (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. [from 16th c.]
- 1843 December 18, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC ↗, page 129 ↗:
- Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe. [from 18th c.]
- (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. [from 16th c.]
- (slang) A telephone.
- Synonyms: blower
- 1980, Charles D. Taylor, Show of Force:
- “Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.”
- (tube) See Thesaurus:tube
- (typography) bar, vertical bar, vertical line, virgule (marking metrical feet)
- (lava channel within a volcano) pan (S. Africa, obsolete)
- French: cornemuse
- German: Flöte
- Italian: cornamusa
- Portuguese: flauta
- Russian: свире́ль
- Spanish: caramillo, flauta)
- German: Orgelpfeife
- Italian: canna d'organo
- Portuguese: tubo
- Russian: труба́
- Spanish: tubo de órgano
- French: conduit, tuyau
- German: Rohr
- Italian: condotto, tubo
- Portuguese: cano, tubo, duto
- Russian: труба́
- Spanish: tubería, tubo, caño
- Russian: труба
- Spanish: fierro
- Spanish: codos, coditos
- Spanish: chimenea
- French: barre verticale, tube, pipe, barre
- German: senkrechter Strich
- Italian: barra verticale
- Portuguese: barra vertical
- Russian: пайп
- Spanish: pleca
pipe (pipes, present participle piping; simple past and past participle piped)
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- 1789, William Blake, “Introduction”, in Songs of Innocence:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob's Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC ↗; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC ↗, page 17 ↗:
- "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.
- (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.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade”, in Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC ↗, part IV (The Stockade), pages 153–154 ↗:
- Our chimney was a square hole in the roof; it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
- (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).
- to pipe flowers on to a cupcake
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XXIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC ↗, page 298 ↗:
- Pipe down the starboard watch, boatswain, and see that they go.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To see.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:see
- 1914, Jackson Gregory, Under Handicap:
- "Hey, Greek," Roger was saying, his droning voice coming unpleasantly into the other's musings, "did you pipe that? Did you ever see anything like her?"
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- 1981, Elie Abel, What's News: The Media in American Society, page 259:
- […] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew a piped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store.
- 2004, Arthur Gelb, City Room, page 154:
- If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.
- 2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone, High School Journalism, page 91:
- Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical.
Pipe
Etymology
English surname, from the noun pipe.
Proper noun- Surname.
- An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Named after the calumet (pipe) smoked by native Americans.
PIPE
Noun
pipe (plural pipes)
- (finance) Acronym of private investment in public equity
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