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pip·er P0324500 (pī′pər)n.1. One who plays the bagpipe.2. One who plays on a pipe.piper (ˈpaɪpə) n1. (Music, other) a person who plays a pipe or bagpipes2. pay the piper and call the tune to bear the cost of an undertaking and control it
Piper (ˈpaɪpə) n (Biography) John. 1903–92, British artist. An official war artist in World War II, he is known esp for his watercolours of bombed churches and his stained glass in Coventry Cathedralpip•er (ˈpaɪ pər)
n. 1. a person who plays on a pipe. 2. a bagpiper. Idioms: pay the piper, a. to pay the cost of something. b. to bear the unfavorable consequences of one's actions or indulgences. [before 1000; Middle English; Old English pīpere] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  piper - someone who plays the bagpipe bagpiperinstrumentalist, musician, player - someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)pipe major - the chief piper in a band of bagpipes | | 2. | Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubsgenus Piperdicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationfamily Piperaceae, pepper family, Piperaceae - tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikeletspepper vine, true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piperblack pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper - climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assamlong pepper, Piper longum - slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayasbetel, betel pepper, Piper betel - Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asianscubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb - tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits |
Translationspipe (paip) noun1. a tube, usually made of metal, earthenware etc, through which water, gas etc can flow. a water pipe; a drainpipe. 管子 管子2. a small tube with a bowl at one end, in which tobacco is smoked. He smokes a pipe; (also adjective) pipe tobacco. 煙斗 烟斗3. a musical instrument consisting of a hollow wooden, metal etc tube through which the player blows or causes air to be blown in order to make a sound. He played a tune on a bamboo pipe; an organ pipe. 管樂器 管乐器 verb1. to convey gas, water etc by a pipe. Water is piped to the town from the reservoir. 管道輸送 管道输送2. to play (music) on a pipe or pipes. He piped a tune. 用管樂器吹奏 用管乐器吹奏3. to speak in a high voice, make a high-pitched sound. `Hallo,' the little girl piped. 尖聲高叫 尖声高叫ˈpiper noun a person who plays a pipe or pipes, especially the bagpipes. 吹奏手 吹奏手pipes noun plural bagpipes or some similar instrument. He plays the pipes. 風笛 风笛ˈpiping noun1. the act of playing a musical pipe or pipes. 吹簫 吹箫2. (the act or process of conveying water, gas etc by means of) a length of pipe or number of pipes. lead piping; Piping the oil ashore will not be easy. 管道系統 管道系统 adjective (of a sound) high-pitched. a piping voice. 尖聲的 尖声的pipe dream an idea which can only be imagined, and which would be impossible to carry out. For most people a journey round the world is only a pipe dream. (永不可能實現)空想 白日梦，幻想 ˈpipeline noun a long line of pipes used for conveying oil, gas, water etc. an oil pipeline across the desert. 管線 管线piping hot very hot. piping hot soup. 滾燙的 滚烫的
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call the tuneTo dictate how a situation or agenda proceeds, as from a position of authority. The phrase is a shortened version of "Who pays the piper calls the tune," which means that the person who pays for something assumes control over it. My staff has to do what I say because I'm the boss, and I call the tune here! Mom calls the tune for Thanksgiving dinner, so you better get her approval for any dish you want to bring.See also: call, tunepay the piperTo face, accept, or suffer repercussions for one's actions or words, especially those that would be expected to incur punishment. After three nights of heavy drinking, I'm really going to be paying the piper come Monday morning! With the judge handing down the maximum possible sentence, this monster will be paying the piper for the rest of his life.See also: pay, piperhe who pays the piper calls the tuneThe person who pays for something will or should dictate how something should be done. At the end of the day, though, their company is paying for the study, and he who pays the piper calls the tune.See also: call, he, pay, piper, tune, whoHe who pays the piper calls the tune.Prov. If you are paying for someone's services, you can dictate exactly what you want that person to do. When Mrs. Dalton told the artist what she wanted her portrait to look like, the artist cringed to think that anyone could have such bad taste. Still, he who pays the piper calls the tune, and Mrs. Dalton got what she wanted.See also: call, he, pay, piper, tune, whopay the piperFig. to face the results of one's actions; to receive punishment for something. You can put off paying your debts only so long. Eventually you'll have to pay the piper. You can't get away with that forever. You'll have to pay the piper someday.See also: pay, pipercall the tuneMake important decisions, exercise authority, as in Nancy said that it's her turn to call the tune. The full term is Who pays the piper calls the tune, meaning whoever bears the cost of an enterprise should have authority over it. [Late 1800s] Also see the synonym call the shots. See also: call, tunepay the pipersee under call the tune. See also: pay, piperhe who pays the piper calls the tune People say he who pays the piper calls the tune to mean that the person who pays for something has the right to decide what it will be like. He who pays the piper calls the tune. It's important our customers have a real say on the balance between demands for improved services and increasing charges. Note: People often vary this expression. If these countries are to pay the piper, they will expect at least some say in his choice of tune. They had a strong tendency to call the tune without paying the piper. Compare with call the tune. Note: This may come from the custom, dating back to the 17th century, of hiring travelling musicians to play at festivals and weddings. The people who paid for the music were able to choose the tunes they wanted to hear. See also: call, he, pay, piper, tune, whocall the tune COMMON If someone calls the tune, they are in control of a situation and make all the important decisions. If managers tried to get players to come back in the afternoon they'd have a riot on their hands. The players call the tune these days. Whether you're talking plant-breeding or choice of seed, supermarkets call the tune. Note: This expression comes from the proverb `he who pays the piper calls the tune'. See also: call, tunepay the piper pay the cost of an enterprise. informal This expression comes from the proverb he who pays the piper calls the tune , and is used with the implication that the person who has paid expects to be in control of whatever happens.See also: pay, piperhe who pays the ˌpiper calls the ˈtune (saying) the person who provides the money for something has the right to say how it should be spent; the person with power makes the decisions: The Rockefeller Foundation helps the project financially, and they have the right to say ‘no’ to any part of it. He who pays the piper...A piper is a musician who plays a pipe or the bagpipes. The person who hires them can choose what songs they play.See also: call, he, pay, piper, tune, who pay the piper To bear the consequences of something.See also: pay, piperpay the piper, toTo bear the cost. This term refers to the musician who provides entertainment and the host’s obligation to pay him or her. “Always those that dance must pay the musicke” is an early version of the current term used by John Taylor (Taylor’s Feast, 1638). A late nineteenth-century addition was that he who does pay should call the tune—that is, the person who bears the cost may choose just what he or she is paying for. “I am going to pay the piper and call the tune,” wrote Shaw (Major Barbara, 1905).See also: paypay the piperBe forced to acknowledge and accept an unpleasant consequence of your action. The full expression is “Who pays the piper calls the tune,” which is to say that money calls the shots (“Money makes the mare go” is the same idea). But although a request can be melodious, the phrase came to have an unpleasant connotation, as if the music that the piper produced was not what was anticipated. For example, you tell your supervisor and your colleagues that you can undertake and finish an important assignment in two days, but you can't. As your supervisor takes you to task, you silently admit that you bit off more than you could chew—you're paying the piper.See also: pay, piperPiper
Piper John. 1903--92, British artist. An official war artist in World War II, he is known esp for his watercolours of bombed churches and his stained glass in Coventry Cathedral Piper (pepper), a genus of plants of the family Piperaceae. The plants are lianas, rarely small trees and herbs. The flowers are small, mostly unisexual, and in spicate inflorescences. There are approximately 700 species (according to other data, approximately 2,000), distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres, primarily in tropical America and the monsoonal areas of East Asia. The pepper (Piper nigrum), a woody liana, is the most important species. It grows in India and Southeast Asia and is cultivated in tropical areas. Its immature dried fruits yield black pepper; another spice, white pepper, is obtained by separating the pericarp from the mature fruits. The betel (P. betle) is used to make a stimulant masticatory. Many species, including kava (P. methysticum), cubeb (P. cubeba), and long pepper (P. Iongum), yield spices, aromatics, stimulants, or medicinal substances. Several species of plants from different families are also commonly known as peppers, for example, Capsicum longum and Polygonum hydropiper. The fruits of P. nigrum and C. longum, which are used as condiments, are called pepper. REFERENCESSiniagin, I. I. Tropicheskoe zemledelie. Moscow, 1968.
Macmillan, H. F. Tropical Planting and Gardening, 5th ed. London, 1943.
Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of Economic Plants, 2nd ed. Weinheim, 1968.M. E. KIRPICHNIKOV Piper
Pi·per (pī'pĕr), E.B., U.S. obstetrician-gynecologist, 1881-1935. See: Piper forceps.
pip·er (pī'pĕr), Black pepper, the dried unripe fruit of Piper nigrum (family Piperaceae), a climbing plant of the East Indies; used as a condiment, diaphoretic, stimulant, and carminative, and locally as a counterirritant. [L. pepper] Piper (pī′pĕr) [L.] Genus of plants that produce pepper. The species Piper nigrum is a flowering vine that produces black pepper. LegalSeePipeFinancialSeePIPEPIPER
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Related to piper: pied piperSynonyms for pipernoun someone who plays the bagpipeSynonymsRelated Words- instrumentalist
- musician
- player
- pipe major
noun type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubsSynonymsRelated Words- dicot genus
- magnoliopsid genus
- family Piperaceae
- pepper family
- Piperaceae
- pepper vine
- true pepper
- black pepper
- common pepper
- Madagascar pepper
- pepper
- Piper nigrum
- white pepper
- long pepper
- Piper longum
- betel
- betel pepper
- Piper betel
- cubeb vine
- Java pepper
- Piper cubeba
- cubeb
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