pipenoun [ C ]
uk/paɪp/us/paɪp/pipe noun [ C ] (TUBE)
B1 a tube inside which liquid or gas flows from one place to another:
More examples
- Water was leaking from the pipe.
- The leakage was traced to an oil pipe in the cellar.
- The pipe burst, sending out a shower of water.
- Our pipes froze (up) several times last winter.
- Engineers acted quickly to repair the damaged pipes.
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Building: plumbing & pipes & sewage
- ballcock
- bleed
- cesspit
- cistern
- conduit
- culvert
- leakage
- mixer tap
- overflow
- pipeline
- piping
- plughole
- plumb
- plunger
- siphon
- standpipe
- stopcock
- tubing
- U-bend
- washer
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pipe noun [ C ] (FOR TOBACCO)
a short, narrow tube with a small container at one end, used for smoking tobacco:
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Tobacco & smoking
- baccy
- butt
- cheroot
- cig
- cigarette butt
- cigarette paper
- e-cigarette
- light (sth) up
- nicotine
- nicotine patch
- non-smoker
- non-smoking
- roll-your-own
- second-hand smoke
- smoke
- smoker
- smoking
- stub
- tar
- tobacconist
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pipe noun [ C ] (INSTRUMENT)
a simple musical instrument made of a short, narrow tube that is played by blowing through it
another word for bagpipes
one of the metal or wood tubes in an organ through which air is pushed to make sound
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Musical instruments
- accordion
- alphorn
- alto
- alto recorder
- bagpipes
- dulcimer
- English horn
- euphonium
- fingerboard
- flugelhorn
- pick
- pitched
- plectrum
- reed
- reed instrument
- viol
- viola
- violin
- violoncello
- vuvuzela
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pipe noun [ C ] (SYMBOL)
the | symbol on a computer keyboard
Idiom(s)
pipeverb
uk/paɪp/us/paɪp/pipe verb (SPEAK)
[ T ] to speak or sing in a high voice
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- expressive
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- yap
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pipe verb (TUBE)
[ T usually passive, + adv/prep ] to transport something in a pipe:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Building: plumbing & pipes & sewage
- ballcock
- bleed
- cesspit
- cistern
- conduit
- culvert
- leakage
- mixer tap
- overflow
- pipeline
- piping
- plughole
- plumb
- plunger
- siphon
- standpipe
- stopcock
- tubing
- U-bend
- washer
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