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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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