pipe

Meaning

Noun

1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
2. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
3. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
4. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
5. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
6. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
7. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
8. (slang) Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
9. Meanings relating to a container.
10. Meanings relating to a container.
11. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
12. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
13. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
14. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
15. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
16. (colloquial) Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
17. Meanings relating to computing.
18. (slang) Meanings relating to computing.
19. Meanings relating to computing.
20. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
21. (colloquial) Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
22. (slang) A telephone.

Verb

1. To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
2. To shout loudly and at high pitch.
3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
4. Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
5. Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
6. To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
7. To install or configure with pipes.
8. To dab moisture away from.
9. To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
10. To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
11. To create or decorate with piping (icing).
12. To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
13. (slang) To have sex with a woman.
14. (slang) To see.
15. (slang) To invent or embellish (a story).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/paɪp/

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”).