1. a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
2. a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc.
3. a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil.
4. Music.
• a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument.
• a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe.
• one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced.
• a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum.
5. Nautical.
• boatswain's pipe.
• the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
6. the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc.
7. the human vocal cords or the voice, especially as used in singing.
8. Usually pipes.
• bagpipe.
• a set of flutes, as a panpipe.
• a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, especially a respiratory passage: to complain of congested pipes.
9. any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser.
10. Mining.
• a cylindrical vein or body of ore.
• (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found.
11. a depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold.
12. the stem of a plant.

13. to play on a pipe.
14. to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe.
15. to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone.
16. to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe: songbirds piping at dawn.

17. to convey by or as by pipes: to pipe water from the lake.
18. to supply with pipes.
19. to play (music) on a pipe or pipes.
20. to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle: all hands were piped on deck.
21. to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe: to pipe dancers.
22. to utter in a shrill tone: to pipe a command.
23. to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing.
24. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc.
25. to convey by an electrical wire or cable: to pipe a signal from the antenna.
26. to look at; notice: Pipe the cat in the hat.

27. to stop talking; be quiet: He shouted at us to pipe down.
28. pipe up,
• to begin to play (a musical instrument) or to sing.
• to make oneself heard; speak up, especially as to assert oneself.
• to increase in velocity, as the wind.

1. a large cask, of varying capacity, especially for wine or oil.
2. such a cask as a measure of liquid capacity, equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads, or half a tun, and containing 126 wine gallons.
3. such a cask with its contents.

1. a long tube of metal, plastic, etc, used to convey water, oil, gas, etc
2. a long tube or case
• an object made in any of various shapes and sizes, consisting of a small bowl with an attached tubular stem, in which tobacco or other substances are smoked
• (as modifier)
4. the amount of tobacco that fills the bowl of a pipe
5. any of various hollow organs, such as the respiratory passage of certain animals
• any musical instrument whose sound production results from the vibration of an air column in a simple tube
• any of the tubular devices on an organ, in which air is made to vibrate either directly, as in a flue pipe, or by means of a reed
7. an obsolete three-holed wind instrument, held in the left hand while played and accompanied by the tabor
8. the pipes See bagpipes
9. a shrill voice or sound, as of a bird
• a boatswain's pipe
• the sound it makes
11. the respiratory tract or vocal cords
12. a conical hole in the head of an ingot, made by escaping gas as the metal cools
13. a cylindrical vein of rich ore, such as one of the vertical diamond-bearing veins at Kimberley, South Africa
14. a vertical cylindrical passage in a volcano through which molten lava is forced during eruption
15. something easy to do, esp a simple course in college
16. accept that fact if you can

17. to play (music) on a pipe
18. to summon or lead by a pipe
19. to utter (something) shrilly
• to signal orders to (the crew) by a boatswain's pipe
• to signal the arrival or departure of
21. to convey (water, gas, etc) by a pipe or pipes
22. to provide with pipes
23. to trim (an article, esp of clothing) with piping
24. to force (cream, icing, etc) through a shaped nozzle to decorate food

1. a large cask for wine, oil, etc
2. a measure of capacity for wine equal to four barrels. 1 pipe is equal to 126 US gallons or 105 Brit gallons
3. a cask holding this quantity with its contents

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