pipe
verb/paɪp/
/paɪp/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they pipe | /paɪp/ /paɪp/ |
| he / she / it pipes | /paɪps/ /paɪps/ |
| past simple piped | /paɪpt/ /paɪpt/ |
| past participle piped | /paɪpt/ /paɪpt/ |
| -ing form piping | /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/ /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] pipe something (+ adv./prep.) to send water, gas, oil, etc. through a pipe from one place to another
- to pipe oil across the desert
- Water is piped from the reservoir to the city.
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- [transitive] pipe something (+ adv./prep.) [usually passive] to send sounds or signals through a wire or cable from one place to another
- The speech was piped over a public address system.
- [transitive, intransitive] pipe (somebody) to play music on a pipe or the bagpipes, especially to welcome somebody who has arrived
- Passengers were piped aboard ship at the start of the cruise.
- a prize for piping and drumming
- [intransitive, transitive] (+ speech) to speak or sing in a high voice or with a high sound
- Outside a robin piped.
- [transitive] pipe something (on something) to decorate food, especially a cake, with thin lines of icing, etc. by forcing it out of a special bag or tube
- The cake had ‘Happy Birthday’ piped on it.
Word OriginOld English pīpe ‘musical tube’, pīpian ‘play a pipe’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijp and German Pfeife, based on Latin pipare ‘to peep, chirp’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French piper ‘to chirp, squeak’.
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