pipe

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♦ pipe /p'aɪp/ (pipes piping piped)
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A pipe is a long, round, hollow object, usually made of metal or plastic, through which a liquid or gas can flow.
They had accidentally damaged a gas pipe while drilling...
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A pipe is an object which is used for smoking tobacco. You put the tobacco into the cup-shaped part at the end of the pipe, light it, and breathe in the smoke through a narrow tube.
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A pipe is a simple musical instrument in the shape of a tube with holes in it. You play a pipe by blowing into it while covering and uncovering the holes with your fingers.
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An organ pipe is one of the long hollow tubes in which air vibrates and produces a musical note.
5 [VERB] be V-ed prep, V n with adv, V-ed
If liquid or gas is piped somewhere, it is transferred from one place to another through a pipe.
The heated gas is piped through a coil surrounded by water...
The villagers piped in drinking water from the reservoir...
Most of the houses in the capital don't have piped water.
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see also piping, piping hotpipe bomb (pipe bombs)
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A pipe bomb is a small bomb in a narrow tube made by someone such as a terrorist.pipe clean|er (pipe cleaners)
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A pipe cleaner is a piece of wire covered with a soft substance which is used to clean a tobacco pipe.pipe dream (pipe dreams)
also pipe-dream
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A pipe dream is a hope or plan that you have which you know will never really happen.
You could waste your whole life on a pipe-dream.

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