Definitions for pipeline

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pipeline pipe·line

Spelling: [pahyp-lahyn]

IPA: /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/

Pipeline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in pipeline (eeiilnpp).

Definitions for pipeline

noun

1. a long tubular conduit or series of pipes, often underground, with pumps and valves for flow control, used to transport crude oil, natural gas, water, etc., especially over great distances.
2. a route, channel, or process along which something passes or is provided at a steady rate; means, system, or flow of supply or supplies:
3. a channel of information, especially one that is direct, privileged, or confidential; inside source; reliable contact.

verb (used with object)

1. to convey by or as if by pipeline:

Idioms

1. in the pipeline, Informal. in the process of being developed, provided, or completed; in the works; under way. Government Informal. (of funds) authorized but not spent.

Origin of pipeline

First recorded in 1855-60; pipe¹ + line¹

Examples for pipeline

Why, brother, Mr. pipeline understands it a great deal better than you do.

At the end of this pipeline was a big pile of wet sand from the lake.

After all, unlike the other vaccines currently in the pipeline, this one is alive and replication-competent.

Naputul ang kuniksyun sa túbu, The connection in the pipeline broke.

A pipeline from the oilfields at Stalin (formerly Kucove) transmits the oil to the port of Vlore.

But with the pipeline, transportation costs drop and production would be higher.

The Senate has already passed the truth-in-lending bill, the fire safety bill, and the pipeline safety laws.

The EPA felt that the State Department had not looked carefully enough at the impact of the pipeline if oil prices fell.

Asked whether she should have mentioned the pipeline project, he merely said, “I thought her speech was great.”

The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.