ALL meanings of piping
pip·ing
P p - abbreviation Technical meaning of PIPING pipe 3
- noun Definition of piping in Technology 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. 1
- noun piping collection of pipes 1
- noun piping icing a cake 1
- noun piping fabric ornament 1
- noun piping a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc. 1
- noun piping a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc. 1
- noun piping a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil. 1
- noun piping Music. a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument. a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe. one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced. a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum. 1
- noun piping Nautical. boatswain's pipe. the sound of a boatswain's pipe. 1
- noun piping the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc. 1
- noun piping pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, especially as used in singing. 1
- noun piping Usually, pipes. Music. bagpipe. a set of flutes, as a panpipe. Informal. a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, especially a respiratory passage: to complain of congested pipes. 1
- noun piping any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser. 1
- noun piping Mining. a cylindrical vein or body of ore. (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found. 1
- noun piping Metallurgy. a depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold. 1
- noun piping Botany. the stem of a plant. 1
- adjective piping characterized by the peaceful music of the pipe. 1
- adjective piping playing on a musical pipe. 1
- adjective piping that pipes. 1
- adjective piping emitting a shrill sound: a piping voice. 1
- idioms piping piping hot, (of food or drink) very hot. 1
- verb without object piping to play on a pipe. 1
- verb without object piping Nautical. to signal, as with a boatswain's pipe. 1
- verb without object piping to speak in a high-pitched or piercing tone. 1
- verb without object piping to make or utter a shrill sound like that of a pipe: songbirds piping at dawn. 1
- verb with object piping to convey by or as by pipes: to pipe water from the lake. 1
- verb with object piping to supply with pipes. 1
- verb with object piping to play (music) on a pipe or pipes. 1
- verb with object piping to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle: all hands were piped on deck. 1
- verb with object piping to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe: to pipe dancers. 1
- verb with object piping to utter in a shrill tone: to pipe a command. 1
- verb with object piping to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing. 1
- verb with object piping Cookery. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc. 1
- verb with object piping Informal. to convey by an electrical wire or cable: to pipe a signal from the antenna. 1
- verb with object piping Slang. to look at; notice: Pipe the cat in the hat. 1
- adjective piping playing on a pipe 0
- adjective piping characterized by the music of the “peaceful” pipe rather than of the “warlike” drums, trumpets, etc.; hence, peaceful or tranquil 0
- adjective piping sounding high and shrill 0
- uncountable noun piping Piping is metal, plastic, or another substance made in the shape of a pipe or tube. 0
- uncountable noun piping Piping is cloth made into a narrow tube. Piping is used to decorate the edges of clothing and things such as cushions. 0
- adjective piping A piping voice is high-pitched. 0
- noun piping pipes collectively, esp pipes formed into a connected system, as in the plumbing of a house 0
- noun piping a cord of icing, whipped cream, etc, often used to decorate desserts and cakes 0
- noun piping a thin strip of covered cord or material, used to edge hems, etc 0
- noun piping the sound of a pipe or a set of bagpipes 0
- noun piping the art or technique of playing a pipe or bagpipes 0
- noun piping a shrill voice or sound, esp a whistling sound 0
- adjective piping making a shrill sound 0
- adjective piping relating to the pipe (associated with peace), as opposed to martial instruments, such as the fife or trumpet 0