(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.
Wipe
Definition:
(n.) The lapwing.
(v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.
(v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.
(v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
(n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
(n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
(n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
(n.) A handkerchief.
(n.) Stain; brand.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
(2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
(3) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(4) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
(5) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(6) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
(7) Each transducer head was wiped clean with a single alcohol wipe, allowed to dry, and then cultured.
(8) 'To returning forests we could reintroduce animals that have been wiped out across much or all of this land.'
(9) Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes struck targets near the capital, Damascus, reportedly wiping out Iranian missiles destined for Hezbollah.
(10) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
(11) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
(12) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
(13) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
(14) Hundreds of people, including a former politician seeking re-election, a paedophile and a doctor, have applied to have details about them wiped from Google's search index since the ruling last Tuesday .
(15) Coupled with the global decline in oil prices and a costly pipeline deal with Sudan that allows its northern neighbour to charge South Sudan a fixed rate of $25 a barrel, the bulk of government revenues – and the country’s sole source of foreign exchange – has been virtually wiped out.
(16) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
(17) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
(18) Billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of global carmakers amid growing concerns that emissions tests may have been rigged across the industry.
(19) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
(20) Wipe tests were performed on designated areas for two 1-wk periods approximately 6 mo apart.