pi|pette

pi|pette or pi|pet «py PEHT, pih-», noun, verb, -pet|ted, -pet|ting.

–n.

a slender pipe or tube used for transferring or measuring small quantities of liquids or gases. The most common type is a small glass tube that widens into a bulb at the middle, into which liquid may be sucked, and in which it may be retained by closing the top end with a stopper or finger. »

The buret and the pipet are both calibrated to deliver a certain volume rather than to contain a certain volume (W. N. Jones).

–v.t.

to pour, transfer, or draw off or out by means of a pipette: »

With a medicine dropper he catches the animal in a drop of water, pipettes the drop on a glass slide and places the slide under his microscope (Scientific American).

╂[< French pipette (diminutive) < Old French pipe pipe]