Hose vs. Pipe

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Hosenoun

(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.

Hosenoun

(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.

Hosenoun

(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.

Hoseverb

(transitive) To water or spray with a hose.

Hoseverb

(transitive) To deliver using a hose.

Hoseverb

(transitive) To provide with hose garment

Hoseverb

(transitive) To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.

Hoseverb

(transitive) To trick or deceive.

Hoseverb

To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.

Hoseverb

To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

Hosenoun

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.

Hosenoun

Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

Hosenoun

A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.

Hosenoun

socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)

Hosenoun

man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet

Hosenoun

a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

Hoseverb

water with a hose;

Hosenoun

a flexible tube conveying water, used chiefly for watering plants and in firefighting

Hosenoun

stockings, socks, and tights (especially in commercial use)

Hosenoun

breeches

Hoseverb

water or spray with a hose

Hose

A hose is a flexible hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called pipes (the word pipe usually refers to a rigid tube, whereas a hose is usually a flexible one), or more generally tubing.

Pipenoun

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

Pipenoun

(musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.

Pipenoun

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.

Pipenoun

The key or sound of the voice.

Pipenoun

A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.

Pipenoun

Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

Pipenoun

A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.

Pipenoun

A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.

Pipenoun

(slang) A man's penis.

Pipenoun

Meanings relating to a container.

Pipenoun

A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine.

Pipenoun

The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.

Pipenoun

Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.

Pipenoun

Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.

Pipenoun

A type of pasta similar to macaroni.

Pipenoun

(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.

Pipenoun

(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.

Pipenoun

(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.

Pipenoun

An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

Pipenoun

Meanings relating to computing.

Pipenoun

(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.

Pipenoun

A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.

Pipenoun

The character pipe.

Pipenoun

Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

Pipenoun

(smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.

Pipenoun

The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.

Pipeverb

(ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

Pipeverb

(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.

Pipeverb

(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

Pipeverb

Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

Pipeverb

(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

Pipeverb

(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.

Pipeverb

(transitive) To dab moisture away from.

Pipeverb

To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

Pipeverb

To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (pipe) at the command line.

Pipeverb

To create or decorate with piping (icing).

Pipeverb

To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

Pipeverb

To see.

Pipenoun

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.

Pipenoun

Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

Pipenoun

A small bowl with a hollow stem, - used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

Pipenoun

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

Pipenoun

The key or sound of the voice.

Pipenoun

The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

Pipenoun

The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

Pipenoun

An elongated body or vein of ore.

Pipenoun

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.

Pipenoun

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

Pipenoun

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

Pipeverb

To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

Pipeverb

To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

Pipeverb

To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

Pipeverb

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; - said of an ingot, as of steel.

Pipeverb

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

Pipeverb

To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

Pipeverb

To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

Pipenoun

a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

Pipenoun

a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

Pipenoun

a hollow cylindrical shape

Pipenoun

a tubular wind instrument

Pipenoun

the flues and stops on a pipe organ

Pipeverb

utter a shrill cry

Pipeverb

transport by pipeline;

Pipeverb

play on a pipe;

Pipeverb

trim with piping;

Pipenoun

a tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances.

Pipenoun

a cylindrical vein of ore or rock, especially one in which diamonds are found.

Pipenoun

a cavity in cast metal.

Pipenoun

a duct, vessel, or tubular structure in the body, or in an animal or plant.

Pipenoun

a connection to the Internet or to a website.

Pipenoun

a device for smoking tobacco, consisting of a narrow tube made from wood, clay, etc. with a bowl at one end in which the tobacco is burned, the smoke from which is drawn into the mouth

Pipenoun

a quantity of tobacco held by a pipe

Pipenoun

a device for smoking illegal drugs

Pipenoun

a wind instrument consisting of a single tube with holes along its length that are covered by the fingers to produce different notes

Pipenoun

bagpipes.

Pipenoun

a set of musical pipes joined together, as in pan pipes.

Pipenoun

any of the cylindrical tubes by which notes are produced in an organ.

Pipenoun

a boatswain's whistle.

Pipenoun

a high-pitched cry or song, especially of a bird

Pipenoun

a command which causes the output from one routine to be the input for another.

Pipenoun

the symbol |.

Pipenoun

a cask for wine, especially as a measure equal to two hogsheads, usually equivalent to 105 gallons (about 477 litres)

Pipeverb

convey (water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances) through a pipe or pipes

Pipeverb

transmit (music, a radio or television programme, signal, etc.) by wire or cable

Pipeverb

play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes

Pipeverb

play a pipe or pipes as a ceremonial accompaniment to the arrival or departure of (someone)

Pipeverb

use a boatswain's whistle to summon (the crew) to work or a meal

Pipeverb

(of a bird) sing in a high or shrill voice

Pipeverb

say something in a high, shrill voice

Pipeverb

decorate (clothing or soft furnishings) with thin cord covered in fabric and inserted into a seam.

Pipeverb

arrange (food, particularly icing or cream) in decorative lines or patterns

Pipeverb

propagate (a pink or similar plant) by taking a cutting at the joint of a stem.

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