Piping

Quick meaning: Piping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of pipe.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of pipe.

More Meanings

1. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
2. The sound of musical pipes.
3. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
4. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
5. (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
6. (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
7. (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.

Example Sentences

the piping of a house

His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, but it was at the time of her 21st birthday in 1947 that she made perhaps the most significant radio address of her career, at the end of a royal tour of South Africa, laying out the guidelines that would govern her throughout her reign:

Word Forms

• pipings

Synonyms for piping

Depending on context, synonyms include high, pipe, high-pitched, steaming, pipage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include steaming, pipage, high-pitched, high, fox, gull.

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