Difference between Bagpipe and Pipe

What is the difference between Bagpipe and Pipe?

Bagpipe as a noun is singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural) while Pipe as a noun is a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.

Bagpipe

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural)

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To play the bagpipes.

Pipe

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To convey or transport something by means of pipes.In Unix, to directly feed the output of one program as input to another program by use of the pipe character.To install or configure pipes.To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.To decorate a cake using a pastry bag a flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic brecciaA type of pasta, similar to macaroniDecorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting colorA hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)One of the goalposts of the goal.The ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): " "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.An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a ton.An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

Example sentence: I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

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