pipe

A long hollow tube that carries water, gas, or other substances.

• Water leaked from the pipe.
• The plumber replaced two broken pipes.
• Does this pipe carry gas?

Similar words: tube

Common phrases: water pipe, gas pipe, broken pipe

A small bowl attached to a tube, used for smoking tobacco or other substances.

• He filled his pipe with tobacco.
• My grandfather used to smoke a pipe.
• She cleaned the bowl of the pipe.

Similar words: tube

Common phrases: smoke a pipe, tobacco pipe, pipe tobacco

A simple musical instrument shaped like a tube, played by blowing into it.

• He played a wooden pipe.
• The shepherd carried a small pipe.
• We heard the sweet sound of pipes from the hill.

Similar words: flute

Common phrases: play the pipe, wooden pipe

A large container used for storing liquids, especially wine or cider.

• They filled a pipe with wine.
• Two pipes of cider stood in the cellar.
• The empty pipe was rolled into storage.

Similar words: cask, vat

Common phrases: pipe of wine, wine pipe

A narrow strip sewn along a fabric edge or join, often in a different colour.

• A red pipe edged the cushion.
• She stitched a narrow pipe along the seam.
• The jacket had a contrasting pipe around its collar.

Similar words: piping

Common phrases: decorative pipe, contrasting pipe

To send water, gas, or another substance through tubes from one place to another.

• They pipe water to the village.
• Gas was piped into every house.
• Can we pipe the oil directly to the factory?

How to use it: pipe something to somewhere (They pipe fresh water to nearby farms.); pipe something into something (The system pipes warm air into each room.)

Common phrases: pipe water, pipe gas, pipe something into

To squeeze icing through a small opening to make shapes or decorations on food.

• Pipe cream onto the cake.
• She piped small flowers around the edge.
• Can you pipe a name on each cupcake?

How to use it: pipe something onto something (Pipe the icing onto the biscuits.)

Common phrases: pipe icing, pipe flowers, pipe onto something

To send information produced by one computer program directly to another program.

• Pipe the output into another program.
• She piped the results through a filter.
• This command pipes the text to a sorting tool.

How to use it: pipe something into something (Pipe the results into the next command.); pipe something through something (We piped the output through a filter.)

Common phrases: pipe the output, pipe something into