Definition of Pipe

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Definition of Pipe

Pipe

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.

Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

The key or sound of the voice.

The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

An elongated body or vein of ore.

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.

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

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Pipe Quotations

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
W. Clement Stone

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
Abigail Van Buren

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.
Stephen Sondheim

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.
Roy Rogers

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
Ewan McGregor

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
Ewan McGregor

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.
Tommy Shaw

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.
Blair Underwood

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Zebulon Pike

Pipe Translations

pipe in Afrikaans is pyp, buis
pipe in Dutch is pijp, tabakspijp
pipe in Finnish is piippu, putki
pipe in French is pipe, tuyau, tube
pipe in Italian is fischietto, tubo
pipe in Latin is pipio, calamus

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