pipe

pipe1 [ paıp ] noun count **

1. ) a tube that carries liquid or gas from one place to another:

The pipes had frozen during the severe weather.

lay a pipe: Workers were laying water pipes outside the house.

a pipe leads/runs somewhere: A pipe runs to the hot water tap in the kitchen.

2. ) an object used for smoking tobacco, consisting of a tube with a small bowl at the end:

a pipe smoker

light a pipe: He filled his pipe with tobacco and lit it.

puff on/at a pipe: The old man puffed thoughtfully away on his pipe.

3. ) a simple musical instrument consisting of one or more tubes that you blow through

a ) one of the large tubes on an ORGAN that air passes through to make the sound

b ) pipes plural BAGPIPES

=> PIPING

pipe

pipe 2 [ paıp ] verb transitive

1. ) to send liquid or gas through a pipe from one place to another:

How do you manage without water piped into your home?

2. ) to make a very high sound, or speak in a very high voice:

a bird's piping song

3. ) if you pipe cream or FROSTING onto food as a decoration, you force it through a special tube onto the food

=> PIPING

,pipe `down phrasal verb intransitive SPOKEN

used for telling someone to stop talking or to make less noise

,pipe `up phrasal verb intransitive

to enter a conversation, for example by interrupting or speaking for the first time