pipe

Meanings

Plural: pipes

Noun

a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
a hollow cylindrical shape
a tubular wind instrument
the flues and stops on a pipe organ
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
The key or sound of the voice.
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
A water pipe.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A man's penis.
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.)
Meanings relating to a container.
The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
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.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
One of the goalposts of the goal.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
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.
Meanings relating to computing.
A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
Meanings relating to computing.
A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
Meanings relating to computing.
The character |.
Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
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.
Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
A telephone.

Verb

utter a shrill cry
transport by pipeline
- "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"
play on a pipe
- "pipe a tune"
trim with piping
- "pipe the skirt"
To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
To shout loudly and at high pitch.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
To install or configure with pipes.
To dab moisture away from.
To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
To create or decorate with piping (icing).
To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
To have sex with a woman.
To see.
To invent or embellish (a story).
To hit with a pipe.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English pīpe, 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 (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

Synonyms

bar, behold, blower, butt, decern, notice, organ pipe, pan, pipage, pipe, pipe up, pipework, piping, shriek, shrill, spot, tobacco pipe, tube, vertical bar, vertical line, virgule

Scrabble Score: 8

pipe is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
pipe is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pipe is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

pipe is a valid Words With Friends word