Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pipe. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pipe.
Definitions and meaning of pipe
pipe
Etymology
From Middle Englishpīpe, pype(“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old Englishpīpe(“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic*pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin*pīpa, from Latinpipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō(“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle Englishpīpe(“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old Frenchpipe(“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguesepipa.
The verb is from Middle Englishpīpen, pypyn(“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old Englishpīpian(“to pipe”).
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /paɪp/
Rhymes: -aɪp
Noun
pipe (pluralpipes)
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
(music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]
(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. [from 14th c.]
The key or sound of the voice. [from 16th c.]
A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird. [from 18th c.]
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.]
(especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. [from 14th c.]
(slang) A man's penis.
Meanings relating to a container.
A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)[from 14th c.]
Meronym:pipestave
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 329:
Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.
The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun. [from 14th c.]
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. [from 15th c.]
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. [from 19th c.]
(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. [from 17th c.]
(Australia, colloquial, 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. [from 19th c.]
Meanings relating to computing.
(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. [from 20th c.]
(computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. [from 20th c.]
(computing, typography) The character |. [from 20th c.]
Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
(smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe. [from 16th c.]
(Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe. [from 18th c.]
(slang) A telephone.
Synonym:blower
Synonyms
(tube):SeeThesaurus:tube
(typography):bar, vertical bar, vertical line, virgule(marking metrical feet)
(lava channel within a volcano):pan(S. Africa, obsolete)
Hyponyms
(smoking implement):briar
Derived terms
Descendants
Some of these are wrong (probably at least fr, it, pt, ru). The words have common origin, but they are not descendants of the English term "pipe".
pipe (third-person singular simple presentpipes, present participlepiping, simple past and past participlepiped)
(transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
Coordinate terms:quack, toot
(intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
(transitive) To dab moisture away from.
(transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
(transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
(transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
(transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
(transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
(transitive, slang, dated) To see.
Synonyms:see Thesaurus:see
(US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
Derived terms
References
Further reading
pipe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Eastern Arrernte
Etymology
From Englishpaper.
Noun
pipe
paper
French
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pip/
Etymology 1
From the Old French verb piper(“to squeak, chirp”), from Latinpipare(“to squeak”).
Noun
pipef (pluralpipes)
tobacco pipe
(vulgar) blowjob
Elle m’a taillé une pipe. ― She blew me.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Englishpipe.
Noun
pipem (pluralpipes)
the pipe symbol ( | )
Further reading
“pipe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
pipef
plural of pipa
Anagrams
pepi
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Englishpīpe, from Proto-West Germanic*pīpā; reinforced by Vulgar Latin*pīpa; some senses are from Old Frenchpipe.
Alternative forms
pype
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈpiːp(ə)/
Noun
pipe (pluralpipesorpipe)
A pipe; a piece of tubing used as a channel (often for fluids):
A piece of tubing which string or rope is inserted into.
(medicine) A syringe; a hollow tube for medical removal or insertion.
Any other medical device or equipment based around a chamber or pipe.
A pipe (musical instrument) or a similar wind instrument.
(rare) A pipe as part of a musical instrument (e.g. bagpipes)
A barrel or tub; a container or vessel for the storage of bulk goods, especially wine.
A unit measuring the mass or amount (equivalent to such a container).
A record of a payment or audit acting as part of the Pipe Rolls.
An anatomical or bodily channel or passage, especially one used for respiration.
(rare) A tube-shaped support or holder; something resembling a pipe but not used as one.
Related terms
bagpipe
hornepipe
pipen
piper
Descendants
English: pipe (see there for further descendants)
Scots: pipe
Yola: peeps(plural)
References
“pīpe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-07.
“pīpe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-07.
Etymology 2
From Old Englishpīpian.
Verb
pipe
Alternative form of pipen
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
pipef (pluralpipes)
(Jersey) 120 gallons
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norsepípa, from Old Saxon*pīpa, from Proto-West Germanic*pīpǭ.
Noun
pipef or m (definite singularpipaorpipen, indefinite pluralpiper, definite pluralpipene)
a chimney
(smoking) a pipe
an organ pipe
Derived terms
sekkepipe
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic*pīpaną.
Verb
pipe (present tensepiper, past tenseperorpeip, past participlepepet, present participlepipende, imperativepip)
(intransitive) to chirp, squeek, to make a sound with a high pitch
References
“pipe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norsepípa, from Old Saxon*pīpa, from Proto-West Germanic*pīpǭ.