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Piping vs Wheeze - What's the difference?

piping | wheeze |

As verbs the difference between piping and wheeze

is that piping is (pipe) while wheeze is to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

As nouns the difference between piping and wheeze

is that piping is the process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching while wheeze is a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

As a adjective piping

is high-pitched.

piping

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  • The sound of musical pipes.
  • An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  • A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
  • the piping of a house
  • An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
  • An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  • Piped icing on a cake.
  • (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
  • (botany) propagation by cuttings
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • High-pitched.
  • His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

    Derived terms

    * piping hot

    See also

    *

    wheeze

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  • An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  • (British, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan
  • * 2011 " Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy", The Economist 19 November 2011:
  • The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze : it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
  • (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
  • The new comedy is a wheeze .
    You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
  • * 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
  • If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.