| 单词 | pipe |
| 释义 | Word Frequency pipe 1(paɪp) noun 1. a long tube of metal, plastic, etc, used to convey water, oil, gas, etc 2. a long tube or case 3. a. an object made in any of various shapes and sizes, consisting of a small bowl with an attached tubular stem, in which tobacco or other substances are smoked b. (as modifier) a pipe bowl 4. Also called: pipeful the amount of tobacco that fills the bowl of a pipe 5. zoology, botany any of various hollow organs, such as the respiratory passage of certain animals 6. a. any musical instrument whose sound production results from the vibration of an air column in a simple tube b. any of the tubular devices on an organ, in which air is made to vibrate either directly, as in a flue pipe, or by means of a reed 7. an obsolete three-holed wind instrument, held in the left hand while played and accompanied by the tabor tabor 8. the pipes 9. a shrill voice or sound, as of a bird 10. a. a boatswain's pipe b. the sound it makes 11. (plural) informal the respiratory tract or vocal cords 12. metallurgy a conical hole in the head of an ingot, made by escaping gas as the metal cools 13. a cylindrical vein of rich ore, such as one of the vertical diamond-bearing veins at Kimberley, South Africa 14. Also called: volcanic pipe a vertical cylindrical passage in a volcano through which molten lava is forced during eruption 15. US slang something easy to do, esp a simple course in college 16. put that in your pipe and smoke it verb 17. to play (music) on a pipe 18. (transitive) to summon or lead by a pipe to pipe the dancers 19. to utter (something) shrilly 20. a. to signal orders to (the crew) by a boatswain's pipe b. (transitive) to signal the arrival or departure of to pipe the admiral aboard 21. (transitive) to convey (water, gas, etc) by a pipe or pipes 22. (transitive) to provide with pipes 23. (transitive) to trim (an article, esp of clothing) with piping 24. (transitive) to force (cream, icing, etc) through a shaped nozzle to decorate food Derived forms pipeless (ˈpipeless) adjective pipy (ˈpipy) adjective Word origin Old English pīpe (n), pīpian (vb), ultimately from Latin pīpāre to chirpWord Frequency pipe 2(paɪp) noun 1. a large cask for wine, oil, etc 2. a measure of capacity for wine equal to four barrels. 1 pipe is equal to 126 US gallons or 105 Brit gallons 3. a cask holding this quantity with its contents Word origin C14: via Old French (in the sense: tube, tubular vessel), ultimately from Latin pīpāre to chirp; compare pipe1 |
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