Pip vs Pipe - What's the difference?
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Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
(humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
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(obsolete) A pippin.
A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
(US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 612:
(British, dated, WW I, signalese) P in (RAF phonetic alphabet)
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
(military, public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
A spot; a speck.
A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
To get the better of; to defeat
To hit with a gunshot
To peep, to chirp
(avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call.
(finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
(lb) Wind instrument.
# (lb) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
# (lb) A hollow tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
# The key or sound of the voice.
# A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
#* (1809-1892)
(lb) Hollow conduit.
# A rigid tube that transports water, steam
# A tubular passageway in the human body; the windpipe, a blood vessel.
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#* 1818' September 26, ''(Sydney Gazette)'', on (William Bland) being convicted of libelling in a '''pipe , quoted in 2004, Michael Connor (editor), ''More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia?s First Newspaper , Vol.2 (Duffy and Snellgrove, ISBN 1-876631-91-0):
# A man's penis.
#* 2006 , Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: an Honest Examination Into Urban Sexual Relations ,
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#* 2011 , Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys ,
(lb) Container.
# A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially, a vat or cask of wine or cider.
#* 1846 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘(The Cask of Amontillado)’:
# The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure; sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
#* 1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p.205:
(lb) Something resembling a tube.
# Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color.
# (lb) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
# (lb) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia.
# (lb) In computing.
## The character (pipe) .
## A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
## (lb) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
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# A type of pasta, similar to macaroni.
# (lb) One of the goalposts of the goal.
(lb) Smoking implement.
# (lb) 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.
## The use of such a pipe for smoking tobacco.
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To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
To install or configure with pipes.
To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
(nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
(figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
To decorate with piping.
* 1998 , Merehurst Staff, Nicholas Lodge, Janice Murfitt, Graham Tann, The international school of sugarcraft: Beginners (page 108)
To dab away moisture from.
* 1883:
To shout loudly and at high pitch.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
(transitive, computing, chiefly, Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character at the command line.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
* Wordsworth
To become hollow in the process of solidifying; said of an ingot of metal.
As a proper noun pipe is
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English
(pip)Etymology 1
From (etyl) pippe, from Middle (etyl) pip, from post-classical (etyl) pipita, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I've got the pip horribly at present.
Derived terms
* like a chicken with the pipEtymology 2
Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from (etyl) pipin, from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- She sure is a pip , that one. You need company?
Derived terms
* pip emmaEtymology 3
Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (symbol on playing card etc) spotVerb
- He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
- The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
Etymology 4
Imitative.Verb
Etymology 5
Imitative.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sense) strokeEtymology 6
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* English palindromes ----pipe
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(wikipedia pipe)Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- the earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
- yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe -making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. William Cluer[an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill.
p.7:
- He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me
p.90:
- He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it.
p.64:
- He laughed as he knelt down between Duncan's splayed thighs and tore open a packaged condom, then rolled it down over his big fuck-pipe .
- I said to him — “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.”
- Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* airpipe * anonymous pipe * blowpipe * boatswain's pipe * churchwarden pipe * crack-pipe * crosspipe * pitch pipe * drainage pipe * dutchman's pipe * food pipe * half-pipe * hawse pipe * hashpipe * hornpipe * hosepipe * named pipe * organ pipe * panpipe * peace pipe * pipelike * pipeline * pipesmoke * pipe cleaner * pipe dream * pipe wrench * quarter-pipe * set of pipes * smokepipe * soil pipe * standpipe * steampipe * stopped pipe * stovepipe * superpipe * waste pipe * water pipe * windpipeVerb
(pip)- This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
- Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
- "Ar-cher! Ja-cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel
- oft in the piping shrouds