Pipe vs Square - What's the difference?

As a proper noun pipe

is .

As a noun square is

(geometry) a polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.

As an adjective square is

shaped like a (the polygon).

As a verb square is

to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.

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

square

English

Noun

(en noun)

(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.

* (rfdate)

I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.

An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.

There are so many uses for the square , in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. - The Carpenter's Square

An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.

* Addison

The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.

* (rfdate)

You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square .

A cell in a grid.

You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.

(mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.

64 is the square of 8.

(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.

* Shakespeare

the brave squares of war

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 144:

After disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares , during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.

(slang) A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s

Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square !

(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

Enter your account number followed by a square .

(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square , measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.

(real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.

2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — (Macquarie Bank) (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared" , 21 June 2006 [http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm]

2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares' of living space plus over 13 '''squares''' of decking area on 3 sides and 17 ' squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]

(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.

(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.

(academia) A mortarboard

(colloquial, US) A square meal.

''Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.

A pane of glass.

(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

* Hooker

They of Galatia [were] much more out of square .

* Shakespeare

I have not kept my square .

The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

* Dryden

We live not on the square with such as these.

(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.

The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.

(Shakespeare)

(lb) .

Synonyms

* (polygon) (rare) tetragon * (L-shaped tool) steel square, framing square, carpenter's square * (open space) piazza, plaza * (socially conventional person) see * hash, sharp, (US) pound sign

Derived terms

* carpenter's square * chi-square * combination square * difference of two squares * four square * framing square * goal square * kid on the square * Latin square * machinist square * magic square * market square * mean square * miter square * on the square * optical square * over square * perfect square * public square * Punnett square * set square * square bashing * squareless * square one * square-pushing * square tab shingle * steel square * T-square * three-square * town square * try square * under square * word square

Adjective

(er)

Shaped like a (the polygon).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,

Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

a square corner

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

Honest; straightforward.

square dealing

Fair.

to make or leave the accounts square

(senseid)(slang) Socially conventional; boring.

(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.

Correctly aligned with respect to something else.

hearty; vigorous

* Beaumont and Fletcher

By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.

Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

a man of a square frame

Synonyms

* above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight * (socially conventional) bourgeois

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the adjective "square") * all square * be there or be square * fair and square * square bracket * square centimetre, square centimeter * square circle * square dancing * square deal * square drive * square flipper/squareflipper * square foot * squarehead * square inch * square leg * square knot * square matrix * square meal * square metre, square meter * square mile * square number * square pyramid * square rod * square root * square sail * square shooter * square-shouldered * square-toed * square wave * square yard * squarely * squareness * T-squared

Verb

(squar)

To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.

The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared .

To resolve.

John can square this question up for us.

These results just don't square .

To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.

I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.

''to square our actions by the opinions of others

* Milton

Square my trial / To my proportioned strength.

(mathematics) Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a with the same area as.

square the circle

(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

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, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.}}

(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.

* Cowper

No works shall find acceptance that square not truly with the Scripture plan.

(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

* Shakespeare

Are you such fools / To square for this?

To take a boxing attitude; often with up'' or ''off .

(Dickens)

To form with four sides and four right angles.

(Spenser)

To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.

to square mason's work

To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

(Shakespeare)

(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.

* Creech

the icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales

(nautical) To place at right angles with the keel.

to square the yards

Derived terms

(terms derived from the verb "square") * square away * square off * square up * square with * square the circle

Synonyms

* (to multiply by itself)