Piping

piping
    adv 1: (used of heat) extremely; "the casserole was piping hot"
           [syn: {piping}, {steaming}]
    n 1: a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
    2: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry
       water or oil or gas etc. [syn: {pipe}, {pipage}, {piping}]
    3: playing a pipe or the bagpipes
    

Pipe \Pipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Piping}.]
   1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife,
      etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
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            A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W.
                                                  Irving.
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   2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's
      whistle.
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            As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.
                                                  --Marryat.
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   3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or
      a building.
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Piping \Pip"ing\, n.
   1. A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for
      women's dresses.
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   2. Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.
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   3. The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds,
      etc.
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   4. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also,
      propagation by cuttings.
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Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From {Pipe}, v.]
   1. Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping
      swains." --Swift.
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   2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of
      the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
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   3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
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   4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
      of boiling fluids.
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   {Piping crow}, {Piping crow shrike}, {Piping roller} (Zool.),
      any Australian bird of the genus {Gymnorhina}, esp.
      {Gymnorhina tibicen}, which is black and white, and the
      size of a small crow. Called also {caruck}.

   {Piping frog} (Zool.), 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.
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high-pitched \high-pitched\ adj.
   1. high in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices.
      Opposite of {low}. [Narrower terms: {adenoidal, pinched,
      nasal}; {altissimo}; {alto}; {countertenor, alto};
      {falsetto}; {peaky, spiky}; {piping}; {shrill, sharp};
      {screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing};
      {soprano, treble}; {sopranino}; {tenor}]

   Syn: high.
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   2. set at a sharp or high angle or slant; as, a high-pitched
      roof.

   Syn: steeply pitched, steep.
        [WordNet 1.5] high-power
    

pipe
piping

   1. <operating system> One of {Unix}'s buffers which can be
   written to by one {asynchronous} process and read by another,
   with the {kernel} suspending and waking up the sender and
   receiver according to how full the pipe is.  In later versions
   of Unix, rather than using an anonymous kernel-managed
   temporary file to implement a pipe, it can be named and is
   implemented as a local {socket} pair.

   2. <character> "|" {ASCII} character 124.  Used to represent a
   pipe between two processes in a {shell} command line.  E.g.

   	grep foo log | more

   which feeds the output of grep into the input of more without
   requiring a named temporary file and without waiting for the
   first process to finish.

   3. <jargon, networking> A connection to a {network}.

   See also {light pipe}.

   (1996-09-24)
    

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      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,
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      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