Pipe vs Tap - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pipe and tap

is that pipe is (lb) wind instrument while tap is a tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot or tap can be device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or tap can be a gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

As verbs the difference between pipe and tap

is that pipe is to convey or transport (something) by means of pipes while tap is to furnish with taps or tap can be to strike lightly.

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

tap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , from the noun.

Noun

(en noun)

A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.

A device used to dispense liquids.

We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap .

Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.

a liquor of the same tap

A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.

(mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)

We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.

A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.

The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.

An interception of communication by authority.

Derived terms

* taproom * taproot * tap water

Synonyms

* (device to dispense liquid) faucet, handle, spigot, spout

Verb

(tapp)

To furnish with taps.

To draw off liquid from a vessel.

He tapped a new barrel of beer.

To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.

They can't tap the phone without a warrant.

To intercept a communication without authority.

He was known to tap cable television

(mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.

Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.

Derived terms

* on tap * on the tap * tap into * tapped out

Synonyms

* (intercept communications) eavesdrop

Noun

(en noun)

Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) tappen, teppen, from (etyl) tapper, .

Verb

(tapp)

To strike lightly.

To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.

He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.

She tapped her companion on the back to indicate that she was ready to go.

Lydia tapped Jim on the shoulder to get his attention.

To make a sharp noise.

The tree, swaying in the breeze, began to tap on the window pane.

To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.

(slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

I would tap that hot girl over there.

I'd tap that.

(combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.

(combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit.

* 2000' October 14, "K®Æz¥ k ° †€°" (username), " Kimo ' Tapped Sakuraba", in alt.ufc, Usenet:

Hard to believe , but 4 years can make a difference.

* 2003' April 2, "Eddie" (username), " I ' Tapped Somebody!", in rec.martial-arts, Usenet:

Just started bjj [= couple of months ago and i finally tapped' someone!!! WOOOHOO! The guy i ' tapped has been traiing a few more months than me, outweighs me by at least 30 pounds, and is in great shape from the army.

* 2004 April 7, "Araxen" (username), " Re: UFC vs. Boxing", in rec.sport.boxing, Usenet:

weighs and he still tapped Butterbean.

To put a new sole or heel on.

to tap shoes

Synonyms

* (sense) hit, patter, pound, rap, strike * (to make a sharp noise) bang, ping, rap * (to submit to an opponent) tap out * (to force an opponent to submit) tap out

Noun

(en noun)

A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

(Addison)

When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around.

(computing) The act of touching a touch screen.

A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel; a heeltap.

(military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.

(Wilhelm)

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