Meaning

6 senses
  1. A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.

    Meronyms: pipe, piping, pipework

    An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.

    Pipeline, Rohrleitung

    трубопрово́дtruboprovód, нефтепрово́дnefteprovód, газопрово́дgazoprovód

    трубопрові́дtruboprovíd, нафтопрові́дnaftoprovíd, газопрові́дhazoprovíd

  2. A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).

    3D images are rendered using the graphics pipeline.

    конве́йерkonvéjjer

    конве́єрkonvéjer

  3. (figuratively)A system or process through which something is conducted.

    A new version of the software is in the pipeline, but has not been rolled out.

    разработкаrazrabotka

  4. (figuratively)A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.

    Many who grew up in foster homes in the county have fallen victim to the foster-care-to-homelessness pipeline.

  5. (figuratively)A continuous, contributing source of benefits, talent, or innovation.

  6. The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

More definitions
  • a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
  • gossip spread by spoken communication

Examples

25 sentences
  1. Building new pipelines can take years.

  2. It's all about the natural gas pipelines.

  3. Algeria transports gas to Europe through pipelines.

  4. Russia needs to fix the sabotaged pipelines.

  5. Building a new pipeline can take many years.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
conduit made of pipes:
channel by which information is transmitted:
Русский
By meaning 3
conduit made of pipes:
channel by which information is transmitted:
system through which something is conducted:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
conduit made of pipes:

Origin

From pipe + line.

From pipe + line.

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Forms

plural: pipelines
Singularpipeline
Pluralpipelines

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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