1. pipe - Noun
2. pipe - Verb
3. Pipe - Proper noun
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.
Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
The key or sound of the voice.
The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
An elongated body or vein of ore.
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.
A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMicrokernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear. William Blake
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. Arthur Conan Doyle
A woman without is she who has neither pipe nor child. Irish Proverb
The pipe is nearer than the wife. Estonian Proverb
As they pipe to me, I will dance. Portuguese Proverb