piping meaning: definition, quotations

piping

noun

/ˈpaɪpɪŋ/

8 senses

The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.

The sound of musical pipes.

The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:

An act of making music or noise with pipes.

A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.

Business, Manufacturing, Sewing, Textiles An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.

Cooking, Food, Lifestyle Icing extruded from a piping bag.

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences propagation by cuttings

Derived terms: pied-piping, piping bellbird, piping plover, piping shrike, piping times, piping times of peace
Related terms: pipelaying, pipetting

adj

High-pitched.

His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.
The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, but it was at the time of her 21st birthday in 1947 that she made perhaps the most significant radio address of her career, at the end of a royal tour of South Africa, laying out the guidelines that would govern her throughout her reign:September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian: