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Definition of Pipe up

1. Verb. Begin to play or sing.

2. Verb. Utter a shrill cry. "The woods pipe up with many kinds of birds "

Definition of Pipe up

1. Verb. (intransitive) To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To being singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive of wind, etc.) To begin to blow more vigorously. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive rare) To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipe Up

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Literary usage of Pipe up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Heating: A Practical and Comprehensive Treatise on Applied by William Gage Snow (1912)
"With the two-pipe up feed system risers may be considerably smaller for a given radiating surface than in the one-pipe system, since the condensation from ..."

2. Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide by Frank Duncan Graham (1921)
"In a similar manner next pipe up the make up line. ... Next pipe up the overflow line from valve 12 to overflow pipe 15 in hot well. ..."

3. The American Practice of Gas Piping and Gas Lighting in Buildings by William Paul Gerhard (1908)
"1 inch pipe up to .175 lights, 1J inch pipe up to 377 lights. 1J inch pipe up to 490 ... 3 inch pipe up to 1645 lights. 4 inch pipe up to 2565 lights. ..."

4. The American Practice of Gas Piping and Gas Lighting in Buildings by William Paul Gerhard (1908)
"1 inch pipe up to 175 lights. 1J inch pipe up to 377 lights. 1J inch pipe up to 490 lights. 2 inch pipe up to 784 lights. 2J inch pipe up to 1097 lights. ..."

5. Heating Systems: Design of Hot Water and Steam Heating Apparatus by Frank W. Raynes (1913)
"One-pipe up-feed System.—This is the simplest form of piping, and single circuits are of equal bore for their whole length. The " one-pipe " system is ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Gas Institute by American Gas Institute (1914)
"For cast iron work Mr. Forstall gives 18 inches as a satisfactory width of trench for all sizes of pipe up to and including 8 inch. ..."

7. Science and Industry (1900)
"Take off a J" branch to the bath; continue the 1" pipe up to the level of the top of the boiler and connect with an expansion pipe 6 as shown. ..."

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