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Pipe vs Horn - What's the difference?

pipe | horn |

In nautical terms the difference between pipe and horn

is that pipe is to signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe while horn is the outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.

As nouns the difference between pipe and horn

is that pipe is Wind instrument.horn is a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

As verbs the difference between pipe and horn

is that pipe is to convey or transport (something) by means of pipes while horn is to assault with the horns.

As a proper noun Horn is

Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.

pipe

English

(wikipedia pipe)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • # A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • the earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
  • (lb) Hollow conduit.
  • # A rigid tube that transports water, steam
  • # A tubular passageway in the human body; the windpipe, a blood vessel.
  • #
  • #* 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):
  • 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.
  • # A man's penis.
  • #* 2006 , Monique A. Williams, Neurotica: an Honest Examination Into Urban Sexual Relations , p.7:
  • He grabs my legs and throws them over his shoulders, putting his big pipe inside me
  • #* 2010 , Eric Summers, Teammates , 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.
  • #* 2011 , Mickey Erlach, Gym Buddies & Buff Boys , 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 .
  • (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)’:
  • 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.”
  • # 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:
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • #
  • # 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.
  • ##*
  • #
    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 also

    Derived 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 * windpipe

    Verb

    (pip)
  • 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)
  • This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake.
  • To dab away moisture from.
  • * 1883:
  • 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.
  • To shout loudly and at high pitch.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
  • "Ar-cher! Ja-cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel
  • (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
  • oft in the piping shrouds
  • To become hollow in the process of solidifying; said of an ingot of metal.
  • Derived terms

    * pipe down * pipe up

    See also

    * brier ----

    horn

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
  • Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
  • An antler.
  • (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
  • an umbrella with a handle made of horn
  • An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
  • * Thomson
  • The moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns .
  • * Mason
  • horns of mead and ale
  • # The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
  • # (architecture) The Ionic volute.
  • # (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
  • # (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
  • # One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
  • #* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 28
  • Joab caught hold on the horns of the altar
  • (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
  • (countable) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  • hunting horn
  • (countable) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  • (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
  • antenna horn
    loudspeaker horn
  • (informal, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  • (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
  • (uncountable, coarse, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
  • (countable) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn ."
  • (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o' and '''u''' when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming '''?''' and ' ? .
  • (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias ).
  • Usage notes

    * When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either "hunting horn" or "French horn", depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as "English horn" or "basset horn".

    Synonyms

    * (growth on the heads of certain animals) * (hard substance from which horns are made) keratin * (any of several musical wind instruments) * (instrument used to signal others) * hooter, klaxon * (conical device used to direct waves) funnel * * blower (UK''), dog and bone (''Cockney rhyming slang ), phone * boner (US ), hard-on, stiffy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of an animal) To assault with the s
  • (slang, obsolete) To cuckold
  • Derived terms

    * blowhorn * bullhorn * French horn * have the horn * horned * horn in * hornist * horn of plenty * hornless * hornworm * hornwort * horny * lock horns * pull in one's horns * shoehorn * take the bull by the horns * toot one's own horn ----