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Noun pipe has 5 senses
- pipe, tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
--1 is a kind of tube, tubing
--1 has parts: bowl, pipe bowl; mouthpiece; stem
--1 has particulars: | briar, briar pipe; calabash, calabash pipe; calumet, peace pipe, pipe of peace; clay pipe; hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly; meerschaum |
- pipe, pipage, piping - a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
--2 is a kind of tube, tubing
--2 has parts: spout
--2 has particulars:
- pipe, tube - a hollow cylindrical shape
--3 is a kind of cylinder
- pipe, tabor pipe - a tubular wind instrument
--4 is a kind of wind instrument, wind
--4 has particulars:
- organ pipe, pipe, pipework - the flues and stops on a pipe organ
--5 is a kind of wind instrument, wind
--5 is a part of organ, pipe organ
--5 has particulars: flue pipe, flue, labial pipe; organ stop; reed pipe
Verb pipe has 4 senses
- shriek, shrill, pipe up, pipe - utter a shrill cry
--1 is one way to shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- pipe - transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"
--2 is one way to transport
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- pipe - play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"
--3 is one way to play
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pipe - trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"
--4 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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