(n.) 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.
(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
(n.) The key or sound of the voice.
(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
(n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
(v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(2) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
(3) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(4) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(6) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
(7) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).
(8) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(9) Vibratome sectons are incubated at 37 degrees C for 60 min in 0.1 M Pipes buffer, pH 7.8, containing 3 mM cerium chloride and 0.1 mM sodium urate.
(10) Women smokers, cigar, and pipe smokers also face an increased risk for lung cancer.
(11) While studying forced inhale the diaphragms were set up at Fleish pipe airflow input.
(12) In addition, the risk of lung cancer associated with other methods of tobacco consumption--in particular, the use of bamboo water-pipes and long-stem pipes--is uncertain.
(13) Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae grew after the experimental contamination for many weeks on the rubber hose until the test was finally stopped, in the other pipes and hoses (glass, high-grade steel, PVC, PE, PA, PTFE and silicone) E. coli could be found for maximal 7 weeks, Citrobacter freundii for 1 week and Klebsiella pneumoniae for maximal 3 weeks.
(14) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
(15) The in vitro binding properties of 1-(cyclopropylmethyl)-4-(2'-(4''-fluorophenyl)-2'-oxoethyl)pipe ridi ne HBr, [3H]DuP 734, a novel sigma receptor ligand, were examined in homogenates of guinea pig brain.
(16) Social changes going on in the society were reflected in choice of substance forms by younger people as compared to their elders (e.g., cigarettes vs pipes or cigars, heroin vs opium, manufactured vs village-produced alcohol).
(17) The reaction of an unspecific microorganism flora and of Legionella pneumophila in pipes and hoses has been described in the two previous communications.
(18) One company will effectively control the only data pipe going into a near majority of American homes, whether that’s internet TV or phones,” Stoltz said.
(19) Radical species are formed from the piperazine ring-based buffers Hepes (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid), Epps 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinepropanesulfonic acid, and Pipes 1,4-piperazinediethanesulfonic acid, but not from Mes (4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid) which contains a morpholine ring.
(20) "Two guys came and spent several hours tracking down the cause, which turned out to be a blocked pipe.
Unplug
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In Patient 2, rhinorrhoea and presumably entry of infection was facilitated by unplugging of a defect in the wall of the sphenoid sinus by bromocriptine-induced shrinkage of the pituitary adenoma.
(2) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
(3) She performed an emotional rendition of Open Your Heart at this year's Grammy awards as 33 couples were wed onstage during a performance by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and also guested on Miley Cyrus's MTV Unplugged set.
(4) Rather than having to manually unplug or switch off household electrical devices to save energy, plug-and-play technology for the home automatically detects all idle devices and disables them remotely.
(5) To underline the case that Scotland would be left out in the cold in what it calls an "intelligence unplugged" scenario, it stresses that GCHQ's capabilities to intercept the content of phone calls, emails and other communications and to acquire the communications data or metadata tracking individuals' internet and phone use, make "an enormous contribution to the prevention and detection of crime throughout the UK".
(6) For all The Tube's faults, from the unplugged microphone given to a striking miner to providing Kajagoogoo with microphones that were tragically plugged in, it might just have been as rampageous as live music television will ever get.
(7) It’s also worth remembering Nirvana’s spectral cover of The Man Who Sold the World , immortalised on their Unplugged Live in New York performance recorded five months before Kurt Cobain’s death, which indicated exactly how much alternative American music owed to Bowie.
(8) Measurements were made during inhalation of 26-30% stable xenon gas for 8 min and serial scanning utilizing a state-of the-art CT scanner with both eyes closed and ears unplugged.
(9) We cannot unplug our society any more The last preparatory step is to understand the depth of the consequences of our decisions in designing the infosphere.
(10) The only way you can securely communicate with another individual ... is to do it in person, unplugged, because virtually everything else, as Snowden’s work describes, could be residing in a database that a prosecutor could access to build a criminal prosecution.
(11) I suggest that ADH stimulation ultimately leads either to formation (or enlargement) of pores, by the rearrangement of preexisting subunits, or to an unplugging of these pores.
(12) These aqueous pores are similar in conductance to those previously observed in mammalian endoplasmic reticulum when puromycin is used to release and thus unplug nascent translocating chains.
(13) The eyes with the punctal plugs showed a statistically significant (P less than .0001) decrease in pressure of 1.32 mm Hg after punctal occlusion when compared to that of the fellow control unplugged eyes.
(14) But I reject this: if you want to do something to help someone in distress, as George Carlin famously riffed, unplug their clogged toilet or paint the garage .
(15) In the last few weeks I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Clinton on Trump: ‘It makes you want to unplug the internet or just look at cat gifs’ The first lady, Michelle Obama, also hit the campaign trail for Clinton, giving a fiery rebuke to Trump in a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
(16) 2.4%, we experienced unplugging of the anterior 12 o'clock positioned loop, apparently a result of the loop being held with the insertions forceps during insertion.
(17) Commenting on her opponent’s troubles – and the travails of the election, generally – she said: “It makes you want to unplug the internet – or just look at cat gifs.
(18) That's all far away; Burkhart would unplug and go home and be stuck with a body that still didn't follow his orders, at least not yet.
(19) So all credit to those who gamely struggled through the whole of the first telly Brexit debate, featuring David Cameron live and unplugged on Sky News .
(20) "[Having to] sell your homes, unplug your kids from school.