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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pipeline has 2 senses
- pipeline(n = noun.communication) grapevine, word of mouth - gossip spread by spoken communication; "the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth" is a kind of comment, gossip, scuttlebutt
- pipeline(n = noun.artifact) line - a pipe used to transport liquids or gases; "a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport" has particulars: gas line, oil pipeline
is a kind of pipage, pipe, piping
CIDE DICTIONARY
pipeline,
- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, gases, or finely divided solids, such as petroleum or natural gas, between distant points. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- fig. an information channel direct from the source. [PJC]
- the set of stages and processes from the invention or design of a product to its ultimate use, production, or commercial sale. Used commonly in the phrase
in the pipeline, i. e. still in preparation or under development. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pipeline, n.
1 a long, usu. underground, pipe for conveying esp. oil.
2 a channel supplying goods, information, etc.
1 a long, usu. underground, pipe for conveying esp. oil.
2 a channel supplying goods, information, etc.
Idiom
in the pipeline awaiting completion or processing.
THESAURUS
pipeline
adjutage, bush telegraph, catheter, channel, coming, conduit, confidential information, connection, contact, conveyor, cooking, drainpipe, duct, efflux tube, fire hose, flue pipe, flume, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, grapevine, grapevine telegraph, hose, hosepipe, imminent, in the offing, in the works, inside dope, inside information, insider, line, main, nipple, on the way, organ pipe, origin, passage, pipe, pipette, piping, put through channels, ready, reed, reed pipe, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, snorkel, soil pipe, source, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, straw, supplier, tap, the lowdown, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, under way, waste pipe, water pipe, wellspringROGET THESAURUS
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Conduit
N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.
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