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Piping

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A system of pipes, such as those used in plumbing.

n. Music The act of playing on a pipe.

n. Music The music produced by a pipe when played.

n. A shrill, high-pitched sound.

n. A narrow tube of fabric, sometimes enclosing a cord, used for trimming seams and edges, as of slipcovers.

n. A tubular ribbon of icing on a pastry.

adj. Music Playing on a pipe.

adj. Having a high-pitched sound: the piping voices of children.

adj. Tranquil; peaceful: "in this weak piping time of peace” ( Shakespeare).

idiom. piping hot Very hot: piping hot biscuits.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of pipe.

n. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.

n. The sound of musical pipes.

n. An act of making music or noise with pipes.

n. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.

n. An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.

n. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.

n. Piped icing on a cake.

n. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.

n. propagation by cuttings

adj. High-pitched.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Playing on a musical pipe.

adj. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.

adj. Emitting a high, shrill sound.

adj. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.

n. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.

n. Pipes, collectively.

n. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.

n. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of one who pipes.

n. The sound of playing on a pipe or as on a pipe; the music of pipes.

n. Weeping; crying.

n. A system of pipes; pipes, as for gas, water, oil, etc., collectively.

n. Fluting.

n. A kind of covered cord used for trimming dresses, especially along seams.

n. In harness, leather guards or shields encompassing a trace-chain.

n. A cord-like ornament of icing or frosting on the top of a cake.

n. In jewelry, a support, usually of a baser metal, attached behind a surface of precious metal which is too thin to preserve its shape unsupported.

n. In horticulture, a mode of propagating herbaceous plants having jointed stems, such as pinks, by taking slips or cuttings consisting of two joints, and planting them in moist sand under glass; also, one of these cuttings.

n. A way of dressing the hair by curling it around little pins of wood or baked clay called bilboquets.

n. In metallurgy See pipe, 20.

Playing on a pipe.

Having a shrill, whistling sound.

In zoology, having or habitually uttering a shrill, whistling cry: said especially of birds.

Accompanied by the music of the peaceful pipe, rather than that of the martial trump or fife.

Simmering; boiling.

The noise made by bees preparatory to swarming.

ad. (used of heat) extremely

n. playing a pipe or the bagpipes

n. a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems

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

Word Usage

"This piping is easily heard by _any_ one not actually deaf, and not the least danger of its being taken for any humming; in fact, it is not to be mistaken for anything else _but piping_, even when you hear it for the first time."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

playing cord

Cross Reference

piping hot Wikipedia article on bagpipes

Form

piping hot

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

peaceful simmering boiling sizzling hissing cutting

Verb Stem

pipe

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

griping hyping sniping swiping typing wiping