Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
- 3noun
A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
- 4noun
A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
- 5noun
The key or sound of the voice.
- 6noun
The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
- 7noun
The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
- 8noun
An elongated body or vein of ore.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
- 11noun
A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
- 12intransitive verb
To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
- 13intransitive verb
To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
- 14intransitive verb
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- 15intransitive verb
To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
- 16transitive verb
To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
- 17transitive verb
To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
- 18transitive verb
To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
- 19noun
the flues and stops on a pipe organ
Synonyms
- 20noun
a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- 21noun
a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- 22noun
a tubular wind instrument
- 23noun
a hollow cylindrical shape
Synonyms
- 24verb
utter a shrill cry
- 25verb
trim with piping
"pipe the skirt"
- 26verb
play on a pipe
"pipe a tune"
- 27verb
transport by pipeline
"pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"
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