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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
  • A type of pasta, similar to macaroni
  • computing A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
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  • AU|colloquial|obsolete An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
  • computing|slang A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
  • smoking A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
  • Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
  • geology A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
  • lacrosse One of the goalposts of the goal.
  • music A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
  • music A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)
  • obsolete An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a ton.

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Verb:

  • computing In Unix, to directly feed the output of one program as input to another program by use of the pipe character.
  • nautical To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
  • To convey or transport something by means of pipes.
  • To decorate a cake using a pastry bag a flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs
  • To install or configure pipes.
  • To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.

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