different between pipe vs canal

English

Etymology

From Middle English p?pe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English p?pe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-Germanic *p?p?. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *p?pa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from p?pi? (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin.

The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English p?pe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from p?pe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”).

The verb is from Middle English p?pen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English p?pian (“to pipe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /pa?p/
• Rhymes: -a?p

Noun

pipe (plural pipes)

1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
   1. (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]
   2. (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. [from 14th c.]
   3. The key or sound of the voice. [from 16th c.]
   4. A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird. [from 18th c.]
2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
   1. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. [from 10th c.]
      1. (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
   2. A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. [from 14th c.]
   3. (slang) A man's penis.
3. Meanings relating to a container.
   1. A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. [from 14th c.]
      • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 329:

        Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and forty pipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.
   3. The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun. [from 14th c.]
4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
   1. 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. [from 15th c.]
   2. A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
   3. (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia. [from 19th c.]
   4. (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
   5. (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore. [from 17th c.]
   6. (Australia, colloquial, historical) 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. [from 19th c.]
5. Meanings relating to computing.
   1. (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input. [from 20th c.]
   2. (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access. [from 20th c.]

   3. (computing, typography) The character |. [from 20th c.]
6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
   1. (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. [from 16th c.]
   2. (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (tube): See Thesaurus:tube
• (typography): bar, vertical bar, vertical line, virgule (marking metrical feet)
• (lava channel within a volcano): pan (S. Africa, obsolete)

Hyponyms

• (smoking implement): briar

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ???? (paip)
• ? Finnish: piippu
• ? French: pipe
• ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (p?p, b?b, “smoking pipe”), ????? (p?yp, b?yb, “medium of transportation (sense 2.1)”)
• ? Hindi: ???? (p?ip)
• ? Italian: pipe
• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Korean: ??? (paipeu)
• ? Malay: paip (paipu)
• ? Maori: paipa
• ? Portuguese: pipe
• ? Russian: ???? (pajp)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pipe (third-person singular simple present pipes, present participle piping, simple past and past participle piped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
2. (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
3. (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
4. (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
5. (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
6. (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
7. (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
9. (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
10. (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
11. (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
12. (transitive, slang, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with a female.
13. (transitive, slang, dated) To see.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:see

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• pipe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pip/

Etymology 1

From the Old French verb piper (“to squeak, chirp”), from Latin pipare (“to squeak”).

Noun

pipe f (plural pipes)

1. tobacco pipe
2. (vulgar) blowjob

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English pipe

Noun

pipe m (plural pipes)

1. the pipe symbol (|)

Further reading

• “pipe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

pipe f

1. plural of pipa

Anagrams

• pepi

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English p?pe, from Proto-Germanic *p?p?; reinforced by Vulgar Latin *p?pa; some senses are from Old French pipe.

Alternative forms

• pype

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?p(?)/

Noun

pipe (plural pipes or pipe)

1. A pipe; a piece of tubing used as a channel (often for fluids):
   1. A piece of tubing which string or rope is inserted into.
   2. (medicine) A syringe; a hollow tube for medical removal or insertion.
   3. Any other medical device or equipment based around a chamber or pipe.
   4. A pipe (musical instrument) or a similar wind instrument.
   5. (rare) A pipe as part of a musical instrument (e.g. bagpipes)
2. A barrel or tub; a container or vessel for the storage of bulk goods, especially wine.
3. A unit measuring the mass or amount (equivalent to such a container).
4. A record of a payment or audit acting as part of the Pipe Rolls.
5. An anatomical or bodily channel or passage, especially one used for respiration.
6. (rare) A tube-shaped support or holder; something resembling a pipe but not used as one.

Related terms

• bagpipe
• hornepipe
• pipen
• piper

Descendants

• English: pipe (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: pipe

References

• “p?pe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-07.
• “p?pe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-07.

Etymology 2

From Old English p?pian.

Verb

pipe

1. Alternative form of pipen

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pipe f (plural pipes)

1. (Jersey) 120 gallons

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse pípa, from Proto-Germanic *p?p?.

Noun

pipe f or m (definite singular pipa or pipen, indefinite plural piper, definite plural pipene)

1. a chimney
2. (smoking) a pipe
3. an organ pipe

Derived terms

• sekkepipe

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *p?pan?.

Verb

pipe (present tense piper, past tense per or peip, past participle pepet, present participle pipende, imperative pip)

1. (intransitive) to chirp, squeek, to make a sound with a high pitch

References

• “pipe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse pípa, from Proto-Germanic *p?p?.

Noun

pipe f (definite singular pipa, indefinite plural piper, definite plural pipene)

1. a chimney
2. (smoking) a pipe
3. an organ pipe

Derived terms

• sekkepipe

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *p?pan?.

Alternative forms

• pipa (a infinitive)

Verb

pipe (present tense pip, past tense peip, supine pipe, past participle pipen, present participle pipande, imperative pip)

1. (intransitive) to chirp, squeek, to make a sound with a high pitch

References

• “pipe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English pipe.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pajp/, /?paj.pi/

Noun

pipe m (uncountable)

1. (computing) pipe (the redirection of the output of a process directly into the input of another)

Spanish

Verb

pipe

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pipar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pipar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pipar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pipar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”), from can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??næl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /k??næl/, /k??n?l/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
3. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

Related terms

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization
• canalize

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Translations

Verb

canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled)

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
2. To travel along a canal by boat

Anagrams

• Alcan, Clana, Nalca

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal f (plural canales)

1. canal (artificial waterway)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canals)

1. canal; channel (artificial passage for water)
2. roof gutter

   Synonyms: canaló, ràfec

Derived terms

• canalitzar

Further reading

• “canal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “canal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “canal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “canal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin can?lis. Doublet of chenal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. canal
2. channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)

Derived terms

• canal nommé

Related terms

• chenal

Descendants

• ? Persian: ?????? (kânâl)
• ? Romanian: canal
• ? Turkish: kanal

See also

• chaîne

Further reading

• “canal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lança

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) +? -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

Alternative forms

• canar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
   • 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

     V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.

     5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

   Synonyms: caneiro, pesqueira

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. canal
2. channel

References

• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “canal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “canal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “canal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. (Jersey) canal

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese canal, from Latin can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; cf. the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?naw/, /k?.?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?na?/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. ditch

   Synonyms: canaleta, vala, valeta

2. canal (artificial waterway)
3. (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
4. (television) television channel

Derived terms

• (canal): canal-do-Panamá

Related terms

• cale
• calha

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French canal, Latin can?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal n (plural canale or canaluri)

1. (plural canaluri) canal
2. channel

Declension

Further reading

• canal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/, [ka?nal]
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

canal m (plural canales)

1. canal, flume, waterway (artificial)
2. channel (wide strait)
3. (communication) channel
4. (chemistry) channel
5. cleavage

Hyponyms

• (canal): canal de Panamá
• (channel): canal de Jamaica
• (channel): canal de la Mancha
• (channel): canal de Mozambique
• (channel): canal del Norte (“North Channel”)

Derived terms

• acanalar
• canaleta
• canalizar
• canalón
• canalón

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: kanal

Further reading

• “canal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal m (plural cana?i)

1. canal
2. channel (all senses)