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  • 31pipe — 01. The Libyans are building an enormous [pipe] to carry oil across their country to the coast. 02. We have to replace some of the [pipes] for our plumbing because they are rusted. 03. The city is putting new water [pipes] into old neighborhoods… …

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  • 32Pipe Rolls — The Pipe Rolls are a series of financial records from England, beginning in 1130 and lasting, mostly complete, until 1833. They were used by the Exchequer (treasury) and recorded such things as audits of kings incomes and expenses. They are named …

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  • 33pipe —    A section of memory that can be used by a program or a command to pass information to a second command for processing. The information is stored in a firstin first out basis and is not altered during transmission. A pipe is opened like a file… …

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  • 34Pipe clamp — A pipe clamp is a clamp with a long grip which generally uses an ordinary steel pipe to achieve its length. By using a longer pipe, the clamp can be made arbitrarily large. A pipe clamp should not be confused with a hose clamp which is a belt… …

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  • 35Pipe Rolls — Records of the *exchequer, the financial section of the * curia regis; yearly accounts of the royal income from *county sheriffs and other financial officials. The account of each shire (or other district) was entered on both sides of a single… …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 36pipe —    Ohe, paipu; ipu (smoking).    ♦ Water pipe, hā wai, ohe wai.    ♦ Sewer pipe, paipu lawe ino.    ♦ Tobacco pipe, ipu paka.    ♦ Chief s pipe lighter, mūkī paka.    ♦ Musical pipes, hōkio, hōkiokio; kā eke eke, ohe kā eke eke, pahūpahū (bamboo) …

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  • 37pipe vine — noun hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe • Syn: ↑Dutchman s pipe, ↑Aristolochia macrophylla, ↑Aristolochia durior • Hypernyms: ↑birthwort, ↑Aristolochia clematitis * * * noun …

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  • 38Like Mike — Infobox Film name=Like Mike caption=Promotional poster for Like Mike director=John Schultz writer= starring=Lil Bow Wow Brenda Song Morris Chestnut Jonathan Lipnicki producer=NBA Productions distributor= released=July 3, 2002 runtime=… …

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  • 39like a drink —    to be addicted to alcohol    The term is used of others, but not of ourselves. To like a pipe is not to use one for smoking tobacco but to be addicted ingesting illegal narcotics:     He a junkie? Man likes a pipe, I m told. (Katzenbach, 1995) …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 40Named pipe — In computing, a named pipe (also known as a FIFO for its behavior) is an extension to the traditional pipe concept on Unix and Unix like systems, and is one of the methods of inter process communication. The concept is also found in Microsoft… …

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