piping

1. 1.

   (used of heat) extremely

   “the casserole was piping hot”

   Synonymssteaming

Other forms of piping

plural

pipings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about piping

What does piping mean?

piping means "a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piping?

piping has 2 syllables: pi-ping. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/.

What is another word for piping?

Close synonyms include pipe, pipage, steaming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piping a common word?

piping is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.