organ pipe
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈɔrɡən paɪp/
:
tubo de órgano
- When the cathedral organ was dismantled, he bought the casings of the organ pipes.
Examples
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The period of pulsation of a star can be compared to the notes produced on an organ pipe.
Academic text (1991) -
An organ pipe is remarkably effective because it exploits the fact that large amplitude excursions can be induced into a high-Q system by a small excitation.
Academic text (2005) -
And you know, this is the same concept of an organ pipe and the music that it plays.
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Thus, if we hear one middle C, we learn a lot about the organ pipe but not everything.
Academic text (1991) -
Sounds from an organ pipe
Academic text (1991) -
And all their notes sound obviously like organ pipes.
Blog text (20) -
Normally long organ pipes are higher or lower in frequency lower.
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In view of thousands of observed and millions of observable modes, exact frequency information is not enough to identify any one mode, just as middle C will not identify an organ pipe.
Academic text (1991) -
This article was conceived while he stood in a medieval cathedral wondering where, a thousand years ago, all the compressed air came from to drive that forest of organ pipes.
Academic text (2005) -
The organ pipe produced a beautiful melody when air flowed through it.
Synonyms
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3.9
A tube you play by blowing to make musical sounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and literally derived from combining 'organ' (the keyed instrument) with 'pipe' (a tube): it denotes a pipe that is part of a pipe organ and produces sound when air passes through it. This straightforward noun–noun composition follows regular English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun organ pipe comes from the simple picture of long vertical pipes on a church organ that air is blown through to make music. Each pipe is a different length, so when air moves through it it makes a different 'note'. That's why organ pipe today means a 'tube' in an organ that produces musical 'sound'.