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noun | verb pipepipe1 /paɪp/ ●●● S3 noun ETYMOLOGYpipe1Origin: Old English pipa, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin pipare to make a high sound ► lay ... pipes Developers in some hill areas are required to lay their own water pipes. ► smoked a pipe Dad has smoked a pipe for years. 1 [countable] a tube through which a liquid or gas flows, often under the ground: The pipes froze and burst during the night. Developers in some hill areas are required to lay their own water pipes. sewer pipes2[countable] a thing used for smoking tobacco, consisting of a small tube with a container shaped like a bowl at one end: Dad has smoked a pipe for years. pipe tobacco3[countable] eng. lang. arts a)one of the metal tubes through which air passes when an organ is played b)a simple musical instrument shaped like a tube and played by blowing → see also bagpipes4put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it! spoken used to tell someone to accept what you have just said, even if he or she does not like it [Origin: Old English pipa, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin pipare to make a high sound] noun | verb pipepipe2 verb VERB TABLEpipe |
Present | I, you, we, they | pipe | | he, she, it | pipes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | piped | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have piped | | he, she, it | has piped | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had piped | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pipe | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have piped |
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Present | I | am piping | | he, she, it | is piping | | you, we, they | are piping | Past | I, he, she, it | was piping | | you, we, they | were piping | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been piping | | he, she, it | has been piping | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been piping | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be piping | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been piping |
1[transitive usually passive] to send a liquid or gas through a pipe to another place: be piped in/into/to etc. Lots of oil is piped in from Alaska.2[intransitive, transitive] eng. lang. arts to make a musical sound using a pipe3[intransitive, transitive] literary to speak or sing in a high voice4[transitive] to decorate food, especially a cake, with thin lines of icing or creampipe down phrasal verb spoken to stop talking or making a noise, and become calmer and less excited: Pipe down! I’m trying to study.pipe something ↔ in pipe something into something phrasal verb to send radio signals or recorded music into a room or building so that people can hear it while they do other things: Soft soothing music was piped in over the speaker system.pipe up phrasal verb informal to begin to say something or start speaking, especially when you have been quiet until then: Suddenly Dennis piped up, “Mom, can I have a cookie?” |