PIPE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipe in mean? 

• PIPE IN (verb)
  The verb PIPE IN has 2 senses:

1. transport to a destination through pipes

2. bring in through pipes

  Familiarity information: PIPE IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transport to a destination through pipes

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

We have to pipe in oil

Hypernyms (to "pipe in" is one way to...):

carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring in through pipes

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

Music was piped into the offices

Hypernyms (to "pipe in" is one way to...):

carry; channel; conduct; convey; impart; transmit (transmit or serve as the medium for transmission)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

I remember that he swayed his reeking pipe in the earnestness of his prayer, so that I was half tears and half smiles as I watched him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And I tell you what—it's a most uncommon chair to smoke a pipe in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Cunningham had just got into bed, and Mr. Alec was smoking a pipe in his dressing-gown.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Captain Smollett rose from his seat and knocked out the ashes of his pipe in the palm of his left hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Then I'll just finish my pipe in starting the first one," said Professor Summerlee; and from that time onwards we never trusted ourselves again without a watchman.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When our illustrious visitors had departed Holmes lit his pipe in silence and sat for some time lost in the deepest thought.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes of an evening, about twilight, when he came to talk with me, I would induce him to smoke his pipe in the garden, as we slowly paced to and fro together; and then, the picture of his deserted home, and the comfortable air it used to have in my childish eyes of an evening when the fire was burning, and the wind moaning round it, came most vividly into my mind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The servant led us down a matted passage and showed us at the end into a great library, all lined with bookcases and busts upon the top of them, where the squire and Dr. Livesey sat, pipe in hand, on either side of a bright fire.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Silver leant back against the wall, his arms crossed, his pipe in the corner of his mouth, as calm as though he had been in church; yet his eye kept wandering furtively, and he kept the tail of it on his unruly followers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)