pipe

pipe is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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. noun. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
4. noun. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
5. noun. The key or sound of the voice.
6. noun. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
7. noun. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
8. noun. An elongated body or vein of ore.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
11. noun. A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
12. intransitive verb. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
13. intransitive verb. To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
14. intransitive verb. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
15. intransitive verb. To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
16. transitive verb. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
17. transitive verb. To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
18. transitive verb. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
19. noun. the flues and stops on a pipe organ

    Synonyms: pipework

20. noun. a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

    Synonyms: pipage, piping

21. noun. a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
22. noun. a tubular wind instrument
23. noun. a hollow cylindrical shape

    Synonyms: tube

24. verb. utter a shrill cry

    Synonyms: shriek, shrill

25. verb. trim with piping

    "pipe the skirt"

26. verb. play on a pipe

    "pipe a tune"

27. verb. transport by pipeline

    "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"

Synonyms

pipework, pipage, piping, tube, shriek, shrill

Common word forms

piped, piper, pipes, piping, pipeful, pipeless

Words from these letters

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