Pipe : (noun)
1: a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking
tobacco [syn: tobacco pipe]
2: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry
water or oil or gas etc. [syn: pipage, piping]
3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn: tube]
4: a tubular wind instrument [syn: tabor pipe]
5: the flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn: organ pipe, pipework]
(verb)
1: utter a shrill cry [syn: shriek, shrill, pipe up]
2: transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the
desert"
3: play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"
4: trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Pipe : \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[=i]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to
chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.]
1. 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. ``Tunable as sylvan pipe.'' --Milton.
Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
--Shak.
2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware,
or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water,
steam, gas, etc.
3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking
tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the
windpipe, or one of its divisions.
5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak.
6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
--Tennyson.
7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
9. 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. --Mozley & W.
10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to
their duties; also, the sound of it.
11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L.
pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually
containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the
quantity which it contains.
Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes,
as to an engine or a building.
Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve,
etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory
to a pipe.
Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer,
in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown
lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.]
Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so
called because their were formerly used to make pipe
stems; -- called also pipe privet.
Pipe wrench, or Pipetongs, a jawed tool for gripping a
pipe, in turning or holding it.
To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in
token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace,
-- a custom of the American Indians.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pipe : \Pipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Piping.]
1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife,
etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W.
Irving.
2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's
whistle.
As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.
--Marryat.
3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or
a building.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Pipe : \Pipe\, v. i.
1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind
instrument of music.
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.
--Matt. xi.
17.
2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals
on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to
whistle. ``Oft in the piping shrouds.'' --Wordsworth.
4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying;
-- said of an ingot, as of steel.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PIPE, Eng. laid. The name of a roll in the exchequer otherwise called the
Great Roll. A measure containing two hogsheads; one hundred and twenty-six
gallons is also called a pipe.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Pipe :
1. One of Unix's buffers which can be
written to by one asynchronous process and read by another,
with the kernel suspending and waking up the sender and
receiver according to how full the pipe is. In later versions
of Unix, rather than using an anonymous kernel-managed
temporary file to implement a pipe, it can be named and is
implemented as a local socket pair.
2. "|" ASCII character 124. Used to represent a
pipe between two processes in a shell command line. E.g.
grep foo log | more
which feeds the output of grep into the input of more without
requiring a named temporary file and without waiting for the
first process to finish.
3. A connection to a network.
See also light pipe.
(1996-09-24)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Pipe : n. [common] Idiomatically, one's connection to the Internet; in
context, the expansion "bit pipe" is understood. A "fat pipe" is a line
with T1 or higher capacity. A person with a 28.8 modem might be heard to
complain "I need a bigger pipe".
Based on Jargon File : [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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Pipe : (1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word
halil, so rendered, means "bored through," and is the name given
to various kinds of wind instruments, as the fife, flute,
Pan-pipes, etc. In Amos 6:5 this word is rendered "instrument of
music." This instrument is mentioned also in the New Testament
(Matt. 11:17; 1 Cor. 14:7). It is still used in Palestine, and
is, as in ancient times, made of different materials, as reed,
copper, bronze, etc.
Based on Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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