PIPES

v. convey a fluid through pipes, transport a liquid through pipes; make a high-pitched sound, make a shrill sound

n. tube; tube used for smoking tobacco; windpipe, trachea; flute; whistle; whistling sound, toot; character which instructs an operating system to direct output of one program to the input of another program (Computers)

This page is about the biochemical buffer PIPES. For information about other pipes, see Pipe. PIPES is the common name for piperazine-N,N′-bis(2-ethanesulfonic acid), a frequently used buffering agent in biochemistry.It is one of Good's buffers, with a pK_a of 6.8. It has a negligible capacity to bind divalent metal ions.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

PIPE can refer toPIPE (explosive)PIPE NetworksPrivate Investment in Public Equity (PIPE) Physical Interface for PCI Express (PIPE)For other meanings, see also pipe.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

Pipe may refer to:Pipe (material), a hollow cylinder following certain dimension rulesWater pipe, for transporting waterPipe (smoking)Pipe (character) or vertical bar, the ASCII character '|' Pipe (Unix), a set of processes chained by their standard streamsPipe (unit) or butt, a cask measurementPipes (surname)Pipes (Transformers), a fictional characterPipe, WisconsinPIPE NetworksPIPES, a common buffer used in chemistry and biology laboratory workPIPE deal or private investment in public equityPIPE, Physical Interface for PCI Express
See more at Wikipedia.org...

Noun
1. a wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through pipes
(synonym) bagpipe
(hypernym) wind instrument, wind
(hyponym) musette, shepherd's pipe
(part-meronym) chanter, melody pipe

Noun
1. a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
(synonym) tobacco pipe
(hypernym) tube, tubing
(hyponym) briar, briar pipe
(part-meronym) bowl, pipe bowl
2. a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
(synonym) pipage, piping
(hypernym) tube, tubing
(hyponym) chimneypot
(part-meronym) spout
3. a hollow cylindrical shape
(synonym) tube
(hypernym) cylinder
4. a tubular wind instrument
(synonym) tabor pipe
(hypernym) wind instrument, wind
(hyponym) chanter, melody pipe
5. the flues and stops on a pipe organ
(synonym) organ pipe, pipework
(hypernym) wind instrument, wind
(hyponym) flue pipe, flue, labial pipe
(part-holonym) organ, pipe organ
Verb
1. utter a shrill cry
(synonym) shriek, shrill, pipe up
(hypernym) shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall
(hyponym) yowl, caterwaul
2. transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert"
(hypernym) transport
(derivation) pipage, piping
3. play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"
(hypernym) play
(see-also) pipe up
(derivation) tabor pipe
(classification) music
4. trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"
(hypernym) decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
(entail) sew, tailor, tailor-make
(derivation) piping

n. pipe

v. load, fill; mark

adj. loaded

1. <operating system> One of Unix's buffers which can be written to by one asynchronous process and read by another, with the kernel suspending and waking up the sender and receiver according to how full the pipe is. In later versions of Unix, rather than using an anonymous kernel-managed temporary file to implement a pipe, it can be named and is implemented as a local socket pair.
2. "|" ASCII character 124. Used to represent a pipe between two processes in a shell command line. E.g.
grep foo log | more
which feeds the output of grep into the input of more without requiring a named temporary file and without waiting for the first process to finish.
3. A connection to a network.
See also light pipe.
(1996-09-24)