hum vs pipe

hum

noun
  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

intj
  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

pipe

noun
  • A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird. 

  • A water pipe. 

  • 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. 

  • The key or sound of the voice. 

  • An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A telephone. 

  • A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. 

  • The character [[Unsupported titles/Vertical line#Translingual||]]. 

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

  • 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. 

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

  • A type of pasta similar to macaroni. 

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

  • A man's penis. 

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

  • One of the goalposts of the goal. 

  • A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. 

  • A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.) 

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

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

verb
  • To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character ([[Unsupported titles/Vertical line#Translingual||]]) at the command line. 

  • To install or configure with pipes. 

  • To create or decorate with piping (icing). 

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

  • Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development. 

  • To dab moisture away from. 

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

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

  • To have sexual intercourse with a female. 

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

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

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

  • To shout loudly and at high pitch. 

  • To invent or embellish (a story). 

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