About The Word Piping
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Piping
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What's The Definition Of Piping?
[n] playing a pipe or the bagpipes
[n] a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. [n] a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems [adv] (used of heat) extremely; "the casserole was piping hot" [adj] resembling the music of a pipe; "the piping voices of children" Synonyms | Synonyms for Piping: high | high-pitched | pipage | pipe | steaming Related Terms | Find terms related to Piping: acute | adjutage | argute | at peace | balmy | bloodless | blooming | blossoming | booming | calm | catheter | clear | concordant | creaky | drainpipe | ear-piercing | efflux tube | exuberant | fair | fat | fire hose | flourishing | flowering | flue pipe | fruiting | funnel | garden hose | gas pipe | going strong | halcyon | high | hose | hosepipe | howling | idyllic | in full swing | in good case | keen | keening | nipple | orderly | organ pipe | pacific | palmy | pastoral | peaceable | peaceful | peacetime | penetrating | piercing | pipe | pipeline | pipette | prospering | quiet | reed | reed pipe | reedy | restful | rosy | screaky | screeching | screechy | serene | sharp | shrieking | shrieky | shrill | siamese | siamese connection | siphon | sleek | snorkel | soft | soil pipe | squeaking | squeaky | standpipe | steam pipe | stem | straw | tap | thin | thriving | tranquil | treble | tube | tubing | tubulation | tubule | tubulet | tubulure | ululant | untroubled | vigorous | wailing | waste pipe | water pipe | whining | whistling See Also | chimneypot | cord | discharge pipe | drain | drainpipe | drilling pipe | elbow | exhaust pipe | fuel line | gas line | line | main | manifold | pipeline | playing | riser | riser main | riser pipe | riser pipeline | sparge pipe | spout | standpipe | steam line | steam pipe | tailpipe | tube | tubing | waste pipe Piping In Webster's Dictionary \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From {Pipe}, v.]
1. Playing on a musical pipe. ``Lowing herds and piping
swains.'' --Swift.
2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of
the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
of boiling fluids.
{Piping crow}, {Piping crow shrike}, {Piping roller}
(Zo["o]l.), any Australian bird of the genus {Gymnorhina},
esp. {G. tibicen}, which is black and white, and the size
of a small crow. Called also {caruck}.
{Piping frog} (Zo["o]l.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla
Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early
spring.
{Piping hot}, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.]
--Milton.
\Pip"ing\, n. 1. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses. 2. Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house. 3. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc. 4. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings. |
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