English Dictionary

pipe

/paɪp/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. / (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.

He used a pipe to fix the leak.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

[T]he pide Piper with a ſhrill pipe went piping through the ſtreets, and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houſes in great numbers after him; all which hee led into the riuer of Weaſer and therein drowned them.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.

Ar—cher—Ja—cob! Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

[W]ith the mariners

A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared

Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd

Among the mountains, and he in his heart

Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas.

Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard

The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds

[W]ith the mariners A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd Among the mountains, and he in his heart Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas. Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds Of caves and trees: […]

意味（4）

(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

意味（5）

(intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

意味（6）

(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

意味（7）

(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.

意味（8）

(transitive) To dab moisture away from.

Our chimney was a square hole in the roof; it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.

意味（9）

(transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.

意味（10）

(transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.

意味（11）

(transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).

to pipe flowers on to a cupcake

意味（12）

(transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

Pipe down the starboard watch, boatswain, and see that they go.

意味（13）

(transitive, slang, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.

意味（14）

(transitive, slang, dated) To see.

So I went and laid down on the grass. While laying there I piped a reeler whom I knew. He had a nark (a policeman's spy) with him. So I went and looked about for my two pals, and told them to look out for F. and his nark.

意味（15）

(US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).

[…] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. Find the girl, was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew a piped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store.