| 单词 | pipe |
| 释义 | pipe pipe1 —pipeless, adj. —pipelike, adj. /puyp/, n. , v. , piped, piping. n. 1. a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc. 2. a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc. 3. a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil. 4. Music. a. a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument. b. a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe. c. one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced. d. a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum. 5. Naut. a. See boatswain's pipe. b. the sound of a boatswain's pipe. 6. the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc. 7. pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, esp. as used in singing. 8. Usually, pipes. a. Music. bagpipe. b. a set of flutes, as a panpipe. c. Informal. a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, esp. a respiratory passage: to complain of congested pipes. 9. any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser. 10. Mining. a. a cylindrical vein or body of ore. b. (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found. 11. Metall. a depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold. 12. Bot. the stem of a plant. v.i. 13. to play on a pipe. 14. Naut. to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe. 15. to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone. 16. to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe: songbirds piping at dawn. v.t. 17. to convey by or as by pipes: to pipe water from the lake. 18. to supply with pipes. 19. to play (music) on a pipe or pipes. 20. to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle: all hands were piped on deck. 21. to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe: to pipe dancers. 22. to utter in a shrill tone: to pipe a command. 23. to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing. 24. Cookery. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc. 25. Informal. to convey by an electrical wire or cable: to pipe a signal from the antenna. 26. Slang. to look at; notice: Pipe the cat in the hat. 27. pipe down, Slang. to stop talking; be quiet: He shouted at us to pipe down. 28. pipe up, a. to begin to play (a musical instrument) or to sing. b. to make oneself heard; speak up, esp. as to assert oneself. c. to increase in velocity, as the wind. [bef. 1000; (n.) ME, OE pipe musical pipe, tube (c. D pijp, LG pipe, G Pfeife, ON pipa) < VL *pipa, deriv. of L pipare to chirp, play a pipe; (v.) ME pipen; in part continuing OE pipian to play a pipe < L pipare; in part < OF piper to make a shrill sound < L pipare (cf. PEEP2)] Syn. 16. cheep, chitter, whistle, chirp, peep, trill, twitter, tweet. pipe2 /puyp/, n. 1. a large cask, of varying capacity, esp. for wine or oil. 2. such a cask as a measure of liquid capacity, equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads, or half a tun, and containing 126 wine gallons. 3. such a cask with its contents. [1350-1400; ME < MF, ult. same as PIPE1] |
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