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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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piping

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Adjective, Noun
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pip=ing

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun piping has 3 senses

Adverbial piping has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

pipinga. [From Pipe, v.].
  •  Playing on a musical pipe.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Emitting a high, shrill sound.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids.  [1913 Webster]
Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller (Zoöl.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck. -- Piping frog (Zoöl.), a small American tree frog (Hyla Pickeringii) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring. -- Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.] Milton.
pipingn. 
  •  A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also, propagation by cuttings.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

piping, n. & adj.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of piping, esp. whistling or singing.
2 a thin pipelike fold used to edge hems or frills on clothing, seams on upholstery, etc.
3 ornamental lines of icing, cream, potato, etc. on a cake or other dish.
4 lengths of pipe, or a system of pipes, esp. in domestic use.
--adj. (of a noise) high; whistling.

Idiom
piping hot very or suitably hot (esp. as required of food, water, etc.).

THESAURUS

piping

acute, adjutage, argute, at peace, balmy, bloodless, blooming, blossoming, booming, calm, catheter, clear, concordant, creaky, drainpipe, ear-piercing, efflux tube, exuberant, fair, fat, fire hose, flourishing, flowering, flue pipe, fruiting, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, going strong, halcyon, high, hose, hosepipe, howling, idyllic, in full swing, in good case, keen, keening, nipple, orderly, organ pipe, pacific, palmy, pastoral, peaceable, peaceful, peacetime, penetrating, piercing, pipe, pipeline, pipette, prospering, quiet, reed, reed pipe, reedy, restful, rosy, screaky, screeching, screechy, serene, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, sleek, snorkel, soft, soil pipe, squeaking, squeaky, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, tap, thin, thriving, tranquil, treble, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, ululant, untroubled, vigorous, wailing, waste pipe, water pipe, whining, whistling
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