piping
piping definition
pip·ing (pīp′iŋ)
noun
- the act of a person who pipes
- the music made by pipes
- a shrill voice or sound
- a system of pipes
- pipes collectively
- a pipelike fold of material with which edges or seams are trimmed
- Cooking ornamental, pipelike lines of icing, as on a cake
adjective
- playing on a pipe
- characterized by the music of the “peaceful” pipe rather than of the “warlike” drums, trumpets, etc.; hence, peaceful or tranquil
- sounding high and shrill
piping Idioms
piping hot
so hot as to hiss or sizzle; very hot
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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