Pipe

ឃ្លាដែលទាក់ទង

ENGLISH MEANING

noun

1.: A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
2.: Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
3.: A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
4.: A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
5.: The key or sound of the voice.
6.: The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
7.: The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
8.: An elongated body or vein of ore.
9.: A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
10.: A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
11.: A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

verb

1.: (INTRANSITIVE) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
2.: (INTRANSITIVE) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
3.: (INTRANSITIVE) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
4.: (INTRANSITIVE) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
5.: (TRANSITIVE) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
6.: (TRANSITIVE) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
7.: (TRANSITIVE) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.