pipe Sentence Examples

  1. The plumber unscrewed the rusty pipe beneath the sink.
  2. The firefighters used a high-pressure pipe to extinguish the flames.
  3. The construction crew laid down a new water pipe along the street.
  4. The organ's majestic sound reverberated through the metal pipes.
  5. The hot water flowed steadily into the bathtub through the copper pipe.
  6. The gas pipe hissed loudly as it leaked, alerting us to the danger.
  7. The oil spilled from the broken pipe, creating a slick on the ground.
  8. The gardener attached a hose to the long pipe to reach the distant flowerbeds.
  9. The shepherd used his pipe to guide his sheep back to the pasture.
  10. The construction site was a maze of exposed pipes, creating a confusing landscape.

pipe Meaning

Wordnet

pipe (n)

a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

a hollow cylindrical shape

a tubular wind instrument

the flues and stops on a pipe organ

Wordnet

pipe (v)

utter a shrill cry

transport by pipeline

play on a pipe

trim with piping

Webster

pipe (n.)

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.

Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

The key or sound of the voice.

The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

An elongated body or vein of ore.

A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

Webster

pipe (v. i.)

To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

Webster

pipe (v. t.)

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

FAQs About the word pipe

a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco, a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc., a hollow cyl

funnel, piping, tube, channel, drain,conduit, penstock,duct, pipeline, trough

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The plumber unscrewed the rusty pipe beneath the sink.

The firefighters used a high-pressure pipe to extinguish the flames.

The construction crew laid down a new water pipe along the street.

The organ's majestic sound reverberated through the metal pipes.