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PIPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Playing a pipe or the bagpipes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("piping" is a kind of...):
playing (the act of playing a musical instrument)
Derivation:
pipe (play on a pipe)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
Synonyms:
pipage; pipe; piping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("piping" is a kind of...):
tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)
Meronyms (parts of "piping"):
spout (an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piping"):
chimneypot (a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft)
discharge pipe (a pipe through which fluids can be discharged)
drain; drainpipe; waste pipe (a pipe through which liquid is carried away)
drilling pipe (a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud)
elbow (a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it)
exhaust pipe (a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler)
fuel line; gas line; petrol line (a pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine)
main (a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage)
manifold (a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes)
line; pipeline (a pipe used to transport liquids or gases)
riser; riser main; riser pipe; riser pipeline (a vertical pipe in a building)
sparge pipe (a horizontal pipe having fine holes drilled throughout its length so as to deliver a spray of water)
standpipe (a vertical pipe)
steam line; steam pipe (a pipe conducting steam)
tailpipe (a pipe carrying fumes from the muffler to the rear of a car)
Derivation:
pipe (transport by pipeline)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("piping" is a kind of...):
cord (a line made of twisted fibers or threads)
Derivation:
pipe (trim with piping)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb pipe
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of heat) extremely
Example:
the casserole was piping hot
Synonyms:
piping; steaming
Classified under:
Context examples:
The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebulae in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
John never asked to see it, but she always insisted on his doing so, and used to enjoy his masculine amazement at the queer things women wanted, and made him guess what piping was, demand fiercely the meaning of a hug-me-tight, or wonder how a little thing composed of three rosebuds, a bit of velvet, and a pair of strings, could possibly be a bonnet, and cost six dollars.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere—the sweet restful silence of nature.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
At five in the morning Maud brought me hot coffee and biscuits she had baked, and at seven a substantial and piping hot breakfast put new lift into me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Oliver Buttesthorn, Sir Richard Causton, Sir Simon Burley, Black Simon, Johnston, a hundred and fifty archers, and forty-seven men-at-arms had fallen, while the pitiless hail of stones was already whizzing and piping once more about their ears, threatening every instant to further reduce their numbers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
