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{{non-gloss|Meanings relating to a wind instrument.}}
(Q750934)(woodwind instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
The key or sound of the voice.
A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
{{non-gloss|Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.}}
A rigid tube that transports water, steam{{,}} or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
# (contexts) A water pipe.
A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
(slang) A man's penis.
{{non-gloss|Meanings relating to a container.}}
(large container such as cask) A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. ''(See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)''
(liquid measure) The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
{{non-gloss|Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.}}
Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
(historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
{{non-gloss|Meanings relating to computing.}}
(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
(slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
(typography) The character {{l|mul|{{!}}}}.
(smoking){{non-gloss|Meanings relating to a smoking implement.}}
(smoking) A hollow stem with a (id=pipe) at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
(historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
(slang) A telephone.
To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
To shout loudly and at high pitch.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
(metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
To install or configure with pipes.
To dab moisture away from.
(figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
(Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character ({{l|mul|{{!}}}}) at the command line.
(cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
(nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
(of a man) To have sex with a woman.
(dated) To see.
(slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
To hit with a pipe.