The difference between Briar and Pipe

Briar as a noun:

Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

Briar as a noun (figurative):

Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

Briar as a noun:

The white heath, , a thorny Mediterranean shrub.

Briar as a noun:

A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

Pipe as a noun (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. 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.

Pipe as a noun (especially in, _, informal, _, contexts):

A rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications. # A water pipe. #* |year=2000|page=115|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmMbBp4LkTsC&pg=PA115|isbn=978-1-58321-044-4|passage=Corrosion of pipes leads to the release of soluble iron and lead. Corrosion control can be accomplished in distribution systems by adding compounds that form a protective film on the pipe surface, thereby providing a barrier between the water and the pipe. Although these corrosion inhibitors limit metal solubility or reduce corrosion, deterioration of the pipe surface is not entirely prevented.}} A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe. A man's penis.

Pipe as a noun:

A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.

Pipe as a noun (geology):

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. A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia. One of the goalposts of the goal. 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.

Pipe as a noun (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. The character .

Pipe as a noun (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.

Pipe as a verb (ambitransitive):

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

Pipe as a verb (intransitive):

To shout loudly and at high pitch.

Pipe as a verb (intransitive):

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

Pipe as a verb (intransitive, metallurgy):

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

Pipe as a verb (transitive):

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

Pipe as a verb (transitive):

To install or configure with pipes.

Pipe as a verb (transitive):

To dab moisture away from.

Pipe as a verb (transitive, figuratively):

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

Pipe as a verb (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.

Pipe as a verb (transitive, cooking):

To create or decorate with piping (icing).

Pipe as a verb (transitive, nautical):

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

Pipe as a verb (transitive, slang, dated):

To see.