pipeline

See also: Pipeline and pipe-line

English

A pipeline

Etymology

From pipe +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/

Noun

pipeline (plural pipelines)

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

   An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.

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.

3. (figurative) 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.

   • April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville[1]

     The gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do.

   • 2012, Olivier Nyirubugara, Surfing the Past: Digital Learners in the History Class, page 257:

     History education has also been considered as a pipeline that connects learners with 'their roots', thereby imbuing in them an awareness of their identity.

   • 2012 November 26, Julianne Hing, “The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline”, in Colorlines‎^[2]:

     A bracing Department of Justice lawsuit filed last month against Meridian, Miss[issippi] […] argues that the city’s juvenile justice system has operated a school to prison pipeline that shoves students out of school and into the criminal justice system […]

   • 2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:

     Scottish rail suppliers have told the Government that they can only reach their target of employing 500 apprentices if they are given a clear pipeline of work, rather than having to endure the current stop-go programme.

4. (figurative) 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.

   • 2021, Marc A. Ouellette, Playing with the Gays: Masculinity and Relations in Video Games, →ISBN, page 214:

     I recently had a peer reviewer demand that I refer to the so-called “Fortnite to alt-right pipeline” as though games automatically turn players into right-wing extremists.

   • 2022, Simon A. Purdue, Race, Gender and Violence on the Transatlantic Extreme Right, 1969–2009, →ISBN, page 17:

     Belew’s book offers a comprehensive history of the military-to-extremism pipeline in America since the Vietnam War, arguing that the ‘potent sense of betrayal’ felt by some white military personnel contributed to the rise of an over-trained and over-armed anti-government militia movement with a distinctly violent racist agenda.

   • 2023 March 23, Mariah Espada, “Reality TV Fame Used to Guarantee a Career as an Instagram Influencer. That’s a Thing of the Past”, in Time:

     But increasingly, the reality TV-to-social-influencer pipeline has dried up. While the majority of contestants on reality TV dating shows like The Bachelor don’t come out meeting their forever love, they previously knew that if they resonated with viewers at home, they would be all but guaranteed hundreds of thousands, or millions of Instagram followers—and a lucrative career as an influencer.

5. (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

Hyponyms

• continuous delivery pipeline

Meronyms

• pipe

Derived terms

• gas pipeline
• in the pipeline

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: パイプライン (paipurain)
• → Korean: 파이프라인 (paipeurain)

Translations

conduit made of pipes

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: խողովակաշար (hy) (xoġovakašar), նավթամուղ (hy) (navtʻamuġ) (oil), գազամուղ (hy) (gazamuġ) (gas), ջրամուղ (hy) (ǰramuġ) (water)
• Azerbaijani: boru kəməri, neft kəməri, qaz kəməri, su kəməri
• Belarusian: трубаправо́д m (trubapravód), нафтаправо́д m (naftapravód) (oil), газапрово́д m (hazaprovód) (gas), вадаправо́д m (vadapravód) (water)
• Bulgarian: тръбопрово́д (bg) m (trǎboprovód)
• Catalan: oleoducte m (for oil), canonada (ca) f (for water)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 管道 (zh) (guǎndào)

• Danish: rørledning c, olieledning c (oil)
• Dutch: pijpleiding (nl) f, pijplijn (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: johto (fi), putki (fi), putkisto (fi)
• French: pipeline (fr) m
• Georgian: მილსადენი (milsadeni)
• German: Pipeline (de) f, Rohrleitung (de) f
• Greek: αγωγός (el) f (agogós)
• Hungarian: csővezeték (hu), -vezeték (hu)
• Japanese: パイプライン (ja) (paipurain)
• Korean: 관로(管路) (gwallo), 파이프라인 (ko) (paipeurain), 배관(配管) (ko) (baegwan)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: ngongo kōhinu (for oil and gas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ledning m or f, rørledning m or f

  Nynorsk: røyrleidning m or f

• Persian: خط لوله (xatt-e lule), خط لوله (xatt-e lule)
• Polish: rurociąg (pl) m
• Portuguese: ducto (pt) m, duto (pt) m
• Romanian: pipeline f, conductă (ro) f
• Russian: трубопрово́д (ru) m (truboprovód), нефтепрово́д (ru) m (nefteprovód) (oil), газопрово́д (ru) m (gazoprovód) (gas), водопрово́д (ru) m (vodoprovód) (water)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цевовод m, (gas) плиновод m, (water) водовод m

  Roman: cevovod m, (gas) plinovod (sh) m, (water) vodovod (sh) m

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: oleoducto (es) m (for oil), tubería (es) f (for water)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: трубопрові́д (uk) m (truboprovíd), нафтопрові́д m (naftoprovíd) (oil), газопрові́д m (hazoprovíd) (gas), водопрові́д m (vodoprovíd) (water)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can

channel by which information is transmitted

• Belarusian: канве́ер m (kanvjéjer)
• Bulgarian: информацио́нен кана́л m (informaciónen kanál)
• Finnish: kanava (fi), liukuhihna (fi)
• Greek: σωλήνωση (el) f (solínosi), διοχέτευση (el) f (diochétefsi)
• Japanese: パイプライン (ja) (paipurain)
• Korean: 파이프라인 (ko) (paipeurain)
• Portuguese: pipeline m
• Russian: конве́йер (ru) m (konvéjer)
• Ukrainian: конве́єр m (konvéjer)

system through which something is conducted

• Finnish: putki (fi), liukuhihna (fi)

inside of a breaking wave

• Bulgarian: тунел (bg) m (tunel)
• Finnish: kanava (fi)

See also

• queue
• FIFO

Verb

pipeline (third-person singular simple present pipelines, present participle pipelining, simple past and past participle pipelined)

1. (computing, transitive) To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.
2. (transitive) To convey by a system of pipes.
3. (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through.

Translations

To convey something by a system of pipes

• Finnish: johtaa putkessa

To lay a system of pipes through something

• Finnish: rakentaa putkisto

References

• pipeline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English pipeline.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.plin/, /paj.plajn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Audio (CAN)

  (file)

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. oil pipeline

   Synonym: oléoduc

2. (computing) pipeline

Further reading

• “pipeline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pipeline.

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. (computing) pipeline (set of data processing elements connected in series)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pipeline.

Noun

pipeline n (plural pipeline-uri)

1. pipeline

Declension

Declension of pipeline

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pipeline	pipelineul	(niște) pipeline-uri	pipeline-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) pipeline	pipelineului	(unor) pipeline-uri	pipeline-urilor
vocative	pipelineule		pipeline-urilor