Fife vs. Pipe — What's the Difference?

Fife (, Scottish English: [fɐi̯f]; Scottish Gaelic: Fìobha, IPA: [fiːvə]; Scots: Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i.e.

A tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances.

A small, high-pitched, transverse flute used primarily to accompany drums in a military or marching band.

A device for smoking tobacco, consisting of a narrow tube made from wood, clay, etc. with a bowl at one end in which the tobacco is burned, the smoke from which is drawn into the mouth

To play a fife.

A wind instrument consisting of a single tube with holes along its length that are covered by the fingers to produce different notes

To perform (a piece or tune) on or as if on a fife.

A command which causes the output from one routine to be the input for another.

A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

A cask for wine, especially as a measure equal to two hogsheads, usually equivalent to 105 gallons (about 477 litres)

To play this instrument.

Convey (water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances) through a pipe or pipes

A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.

Play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes

To play on a fife.

(of a bird) sing in a high or shrill voice

A small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band

Decorate (clothing or soft furnishings) with thin cord covered in fabric and inserted into a seam.

Arrange (food, particularly icing or cream) in decorative lines or patterns

Propagate (a pink or similar plant) by taking a cutting at the joint of a stem.

A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.

A section or piece of such a tube.

A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.

An amount of smoking material, such as tobacco, needed to fill the bowl of a pipe; a pipeful.

A tubular part or organ of the body.

Pipes The passages of the human respiratory system.

A large wine cask, especially one having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).

This volume as a unit of liquid measure.

A tubular wind instrument, such as a flute.

Any of the tubes in an organ.

Pipes A small wind instrument, consisting of tubes of different lengths bound together.

Pipes A bagpipe.

Pipes(Informal) The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.

A birdcall.

(Nautical) A whistle used for signaling crew members

A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.

One of the vertical veins of eruptive origin in which diamonds are found in South Africa.

(Geology) An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.

(Metallurgy) A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.

To convey (liquid or gas) by means of pipes.

To convey as if by pipes, especially to transmit by wire or cable

To provide with pipes or connect with pipes.

To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.

To lead by playing on pipes.

To signal (crew members) with a boatswain's pipe.

To receive aboard or mark the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe.

To utter in a shrill reedy tone.

To furnish (a garment or fabric) with piping.

To force through a pastry tube, as frosting onto a cake.

(Slang) To take a look at; notice.

To play on a pipe.

To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.

To chirp or whistle, as a bird does.

(Nautical) To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.

(Metallurgy) To develop conical cavities during solidification.

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

(musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.

The key or sound of the voice.

A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.

Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.

A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.

(slang) A man's penis.

Meanings relating to a container.

A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.

Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.

Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.

A type of pasta similar to macaroni.

(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.

(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.

(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.

An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

Meanings relating to computing.

(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.

A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.

Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

(smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.

The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.

(slang) A telephone.

(ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.

(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.

(transitive) To dab moisture away from.

To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

) at the command line.

To create or decorate with piping (icing).

To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

To have sexual intercourse with a female.

To see.

To invent or embellish (a story).

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.

Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

A small bowl with a hollow stem, - used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

The key or sound of the voice.

The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

An elongated body or vein of ore.

A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; - so called because put together like a pipe.

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; - said of an ingot, as of steel.

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

A hollow cylindrical shape

A tubular wind instrument

The flues and stops on a pipe organ

Utter a shrill cry

Transport by pipeline;

Play on a pipe;

Trim with piping;