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• a tubular man-made channel, generally round in cross section, for transporting or guiding a fluid substance.
  • See plumbing and pipeline transport

• an exhaust pipe, for channelling waste fumes from an engine or stove

• certain musical instruments among the wind instruments, specifically woodwinds, characterized as being shaped like a pipe or collection of pipes.
  • the flute or reed flute
  • the recorder
  • a boatswain's pipe , also known as a bosun's whistle
  • Instruments often referred to by the plural form "pipes":
    • pan pipes
    • the bagpipe
    • A singer's vocal cords (slang)
• "Piping" as a verb means playing one of these instruments; The Pied Piper of Hamelin is said to have played such an instrument.

• a smoking pipe, for the smoking of tobacco, or certain recreational drugsRecreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear. Regardless of medical supervision, this label does not apply to the use of drugs for utilitari

• a water pipeFor information on pipes used to transfer water and fluids, see plumbing and pipeline transport. For many other uses of the word, see pipe. A water pipe or bong is a device used for smoking, usually cannabis (and less frequently tobacco), in which smoke i, for the smoking of cannabissee text Cannabis is a genus of dioecious, annual herbs that belong to the family Cannabaceae, which was formerly placed with the nettles in the order Urticales, but is now in the order Rosales. There is phylogenetic controversy as to whether the cultivat and tobacco

• in computing:
  • pipe is the name of the ASCIIASCII A merican S tandard C ode for I nformation I nterchange , generally pronounced 'aski', is a character set and a character encoding based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English and other Western European languages. It is most commonly used b character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): |
  • in the context of UnixUNIX (or Unix is a portable, multi-task and multi-user computer operating system originally developed by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. Unices The term Unices includes Unix and Unix-like ope operating systems, a pipe signifies that the output of one program feeds directly as input to another program. The Unix shellA Unix shell also called "the command line", provides the traditional user interface for the Unix operating system. Users direct the operation of the computer by entering command input as text for a shell to execute. Within the Microsoft Windows suite of uses the pipe character (|) to join programs together. See Pipe (computing)A pipe is an operating system mechanism originating in Unix, which allows the user to direct the output of one shell command through another command. See Pipe (Unix). Pipe or vertical bar ( or ) is the name of the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), Pipe (Unix)In the context of Unix and Unix-like operating systems, as well as MS-DOS, a pipe signifies that the output of one program (" stdout") feeds directly as input (" stdin") to another program. Any error messages from the first program (" stderr") are not pas and Pipes and filters.
  • in internet slang, a pipe refers to a data backbone, or broadband Internet access (e.g., a "fat pipe" refers to a high-bandwidth connection).

• a vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia

• a halfpipe is a semi-circular ramp for performing skateboarding tricks; by extension, a similar construction in snow for snowboarding

• an illness associated with bloating of the stomach [as in the phrase, 'eugh, my pipes are playing up!']

Pipe can have different meanings when spelled with capitals - see PIPE.

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