Pipe

The word pipe can refer to: \n* a tubular man-made channel, generally round in cross section, for transporting or guiding a fluid substance. \n** 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.\n** the flute or reed flute\n** the recorder\n** a boatswain's pipe, also known as a bosun's whistle\n** Instruments often referred to by the plural form "pipes":\n*** pan pipes\n*** the bagpipe\n*** A singer's vocal cords (slang)\n*"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 drugs
• a water pipe, for the smoking of cannabis
• in computing: \n**pipe is the name of the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): |\n** in the context of Unix operating systems, a pipe signifies that the output of one program feeds directly as input to another program. The Unix shell uses the pipe character (|) to join programs together. See Pipe (computing), Pipe (Unix) and Pipes and filters.\n** 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 method of decorating a cake using a pastry bag, a flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle, to make various designs
• a pipe (pasta) is a macaroni like type of pasta.
• a large cask for storing fluids, especially wine or oil
• a decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
• a halfpipe is a semi-circular ramp for performing skateboarding tricks; by extension, a similar construction in snow for snowboarding

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