Look up: pipe

1. pipe
   1. (operating system) One of Unix's buffers which can be written to by one asynchronous process and read by another, with the kernel suspending and waking up the sender and receiver according to how full the pipe is. In later versions of Unix, rather than using an anonymous kernel-managed temporary...
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2. Pipe
   [fluid conveyance] A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases (fluids), slurries, powders, masses of small solids. It can also be used for structural applications...
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3. Pipe
   Squeezing icing out of bag through a decorating tip to form decorations.
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4. Pipe
   [instrument] Pipe describes a number of musical instruments, historically referring to perforated wind instruments. The word is an onomatopoeia, and comes from the tone which can resemble that of a bird chirping. ==Folk pipe== Fipple flutes are found in many cultures around the world. Often ...
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5. Pipe
   Using a pastry bag to squeeze a soft food through a decorative tip to create swirled and artful wisps of the product on to another surface.
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6. Pipe
   The jornada of the voyageur. The distance between rest stops, which were the only times his pipe could be lit up and enjoyed.
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7. Pipe
   See Bar.
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8. pipe
   [n] - a hollow cylindrical shape 2. [n] - a tubular wind instrument 3. [n] - a tube with a small bowl at one end 4. [n] - a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. 5. [v] - transport by pipeline 6. [v] - play on a pipe 7. [v] - trim with piping, as of garments
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9. Pipe
   Tube used in a drill string.
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10. pipe
    a long, hollow cylinder, usually steel, through which fluids are conducted. Oilfield tubular goods are casing (including liners), drill pipe, tubing, or line pipe
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11. Pipe
    A cask holding two hogsheads or 126 U.S. gallons of wine.
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12. pipe
    A tube intended for the transfer of fluids from one place to another. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a long narrow conducting channel through an otherwise non-conducting region of a semiconductor device Category: Electrical engineering and en...
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13. Pipe
    Pipe noun [ Anglo-Saxon pīpe , probably from Latin pipare , pipire , to chirp; of imitative origin. Confer Peep , Pibroch , Fife .] 1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes o...
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14. Pipe
    Pipe intransitive verb 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. « We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.» Matt. xi. 17. 2. (Nautical) To call, convey order...
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15. Pipe
    Pipe transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Piped ; present participle & verbal noun Piping .] 1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in ...
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16. pipe
    1. 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. 'Tunable as sylvan pipe.' 'Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.' (Shak) ... 2. Any long tube or hollow body of w...
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17. pipe
    pipage noun a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
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18. pipe
    tube noun a hollow cylindrical shape
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19. pipe
    noun a small fipple flute that is played with the left hand while the right hand is free to beat a tabor
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20. pipe
    noun a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
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21. Pipe
    • (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain`s whistle. • (n.) The key or sound of the voice. • (n.) 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 orga...
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22. pipe
    (from the article `building construction`) Perhaps the most important use of lead was for pipes to supply fresh water to buildings and to remove wastewater from them (the word plumbing comes ... ...which are free of contamination. Water is drawn from the wells with small submersible electric pumps, which are lowered through the well cas...
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23. pipe
    in music, specifically, the three-holed flute played with a tabor drum ( pipe and tabor); generically, any aerophonic (wind) instruments consisting ...
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24. pipe
    hollow bowl used for smoking tobacco; it is equipped with a hollow stem through which smoke is drawn into the mouth. The bowl can be made of such ... [4 related articles]
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25. PIPE
    See: Private Investment in Public Equity
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