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pipe
CEFRA2
/ˈpaɪp/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A tube used to carry liquid, gas, or sound.
- 02
verb
To send or carry something through a pipe.
Examples
If you have something to say, say it now or pipe down.
Join one section of pipe to the next.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsMeanings relating to a wind instrument.
A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
More examples
In contextWater shot from the pipe.
A burst pipe flooded my bathroom.
Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Displaced native Old English fealh and Old English þrūh. Doublet of fife. Cognate with Dutch pijp, German Pfeife, Danish pibe, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk pipe, Swedish pipa, Faroese and Icelandic pípa. The “storage container” and “liquid measur...