Pipe

Quick meaning: Pipe is a noun meaning Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

Meaning

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

More Meanings

1. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
2. Meanings relating to a container.
3. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
4. Meanings relating to computing.
5. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
6. (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
7. (slang) A telephone.

Example Sentences

“Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.”

Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.

We can just pipe the output of our command into sed to get rid of any leading whitespaces.

"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.

Word Forms

• pipes
• piping
• piped

Synonyms for pipe

Depending on context, synonyms include blower, behold, decern, notice, spot, shriek.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shrill, shriek, screech, tube, pipework, pipage.

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