Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pipe

(pipes, piping, piped) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. 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... N-COUNT 2. 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. N-COUNT 3. 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. N-COUNT 4. An organ pipe is one of the long hollow tubes in which air vibrates and produces a musical note. N-COUNT 5. 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. VERB: be V-ed prep, V n with adv, V-ed 6. see also piping, piping hot