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piping
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
high-pitched \high-pitched\ adj.
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high in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices. Opposite of low. [Narrower terms: adenoidal, pinched, nasal; altissimo; alto; countertenor, alto; falsetto; peaky, spiky; piping; shrill, sharp; screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing; soprano, treble; sopranino; tenor]
Syn: high.
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set at a sharp or high angle or slant; as, a high-pitched roof.
Syn: steeply pitched, steep.
Wiktionary
high-pitched. n. 1 The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching. 2 The sound of musical pipes. 3 An act of making music or noise with pipes. 4 A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework. 5 An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams. 6 An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth. 7 Piped icing on a cake. 8 (context botany English) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting. 9 (context botany English) propagation by cuttings v
(present participle of pipe English)
WordNet
adj. resembling the music of a pipe; "the piping voices of children"
adv. (used of heat) extremely; "the casserole was piping hot" [syn: steaming]
Wikipedia
Within industry, piping is a system of pipes used to convey fluids ( liquids and gases) from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the efficient transport of fluid.
Industrial process piping (and accompanying in-line components) can be manufactured from wood, fiberglass, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic, copper, and concrete. The in-line components, known as fittings, valves, and other devices, typically sense and control the pressure, flow rate and temperature of the transmitted fluid, and usually are included in the field of Piping Design (or Piping Engineering). Piping systems are documented in piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). If necessary, pipes can be cleaned by the tube cleaning process.
"Piping" sometimes refers to Piping Design, the detailed specification of the physical piping layout within a process plant or commercial building. In earlier days, this was sometimes called Drafting, Technical drawing, Engineering Drawing, and Design but is today commonly performed by Designers who have learned to use automated Computer Aided Drawing / Computer Aided Design ( CAD) software.,
Plumbing is a piping system with which most people are familiar, as it constitutes the form of fluid transportation that is used to provide potable water and fuels to their homes and businesses. Plumbing pipes also remove waste in the form of sewage, and allow venting of sewage gases to the outdoors. Fire sprinkler systems also use piping, and may transport nonpotable or potable water, or other fire-suppression fluids.
Piping also has many other industrial applications, which are crucial for moving raw and semi-processed fluids for refining into more useful products. Some of the more exotic materials of construction are Inconel, titanium, chrome-moly and various other steel alloys.
In sewing, piping is a type of trim or embellishment consisting of a strip of folded fabric so as to form a "pipe" inserted into a seam to define the edges or style lines of a garment or other textile object. Usually the fabric strip is cut on the bias. It may be made from either self-fabric (the same fabric as the object to be ornamented) or contrasting fabric, or of leather.
Today, piping is common on upholstery and decorative pillows, but it is also used on clothing. Piped pocket openings, garment edges, and seams are characteristic of Western wear.
Usage examples of "piping".
He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.
Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute--players.
Leon had called Moynihan late Sunday night, but the piping voice of the Benet body had not been authoritative enough to get any information out of that damned Irish hoodlum.
Jack Boysenberry zipped up quickly and self-consciously and looked around at the sound of the gnarly, piping voice.
But he had scarcely emitted three puffs before the piping voice of Arabella Cadge was again wafted to his ears.
Its small black eyes glared at them and it bobbed its head like a giant chuckwalla, piping and hissing steadily.
He also brought out a large tangle of metal-sheathed piping, coiled around his hand.
Aside from a torpedo launch, the check valves in the coolant piping made the loudest noise the Devilfish could make.
The main coolant check valves slamming the piping from the order to go to flank speed.
Its slanting lower surface had a mock-up piping diagram of the main coolant system that showed the portcoolant loop on the left and its mirror image on the right.
In minutes he was standing in a narrow passage full of dripstone formations whose intricacy made him think of the valves and piping of the body.
We were, I can say, stunning, dramatic: logo-covered Gore-Tex laminated directly on our skin, Camel-Bak bags automatically pouring water through esophageal piping in response to computerized blood-density readings.
It was in the midst of such signs of expectation that the call of the boatswain was heard piping the side on board the Foudroyant, and four side-boys lay over on the accommodation-ladder, a mark of honor never paid to one of a rank less than that of a captain.
For there on the flat shore were pictures of Grecian lions and Mediterranean goats and maidens with flesh of sand like powdered gold and satyrs piping on hand-carved horns and children dancing, strewing flowers along and along the beach with lambs gambolling after and musicians skipping to their harps and lyres, and unicorns racing youths towards distant meadows, woodlands, ruined temples and volcanoes.
When the Generalissima was finished, very high piping music could be heard as the mouse pipers played their bagpipes and the drummers beat their drums.