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/ˈpʌɪplʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/ 1. A continuous line of joined pipes, esp. one used for conveying oil, gas, etc., long distances; a (usually flexible) tube for carrying fluid in machinery, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > pipe-line
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > system or arrangement of
piping1729
pipework1849
pipeline1856
reticulation1859
ring main1868
plumbinga1929
grid1943
1856 Times 15 Aug. 7/6 The whole of the pipe line has been laid, the reservoirs are filled, occupying an extensive acreage, but in consequence of delay in connecting one with the other, the town is suffering from the want of water.
1873 J. T. Henry Early & Later Hist. Petroleum 283 The iron pipe lines for the conveyance of oil from the wells to railway shipping points play an important part in the transportation of the article.
1924 C. Christy Big Game & Pygmies i. 2 Between Matadi and Leopoldville is a wonderful pipe line, by which crude mineral oil for the fleet of up-river steamers is pumped the whole two hundred odd miles by several pumping stations.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 427/1 The design and production of hydraulic machinery, pumping plants, pipelines, etc.
1991 Fortune 25 Feb. 28/2 Iraq must rebuild bombed-out pipelines and terminals before it can sell much oil.
2.
a. figurative. A channel of supply, information, communication, etc.; a means of ready access.
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society > communication > [noun] > channel of information, communication, etc.
mulga1899
mulga wire1899
pipeline1916
society > communication > [adjective] > channel of information, communication, etc.
pipeline1916
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > means of supply
channel1537
conduit1818
pipeline1916
1916 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 14 Aug. 2/5 There is discord among those spooks who are seeking possession of the mental pipelines to the mystic pointers [of a ouija board].
1935 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Aug. 6/2 It was implied..that the man who had the real inside track to the White House and the potential pipe line to the United States Treasury was none other than Dr. Byrd.
1973 Daily Pennsylvanian 9 Oct. 1/2 I don't have a pipeline to God.
1990 M. Levine Deep Cover xii. 310 They've discovered the biggest Mexican heroin pipeline in history.
b. in the pipeline: on the way from the supplier; in development or production, in process; nearing completion, imminent.
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the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase]
in handc1405
in expeditiona1616
on (also upon) the anvil1645
on the wheel1677
in progress1849
in the works1870
in process1906
in the pipeline1945
1945 Times 7 Sept. 4/1 I also directed the Administrator..to enter into immediate negotiations with the receiving Governments for the purchases of all goods in the pipeline or in storage.
1957 Economist 16 Nov. 565/2 With the further fall in primary commodities there must be a further improvement in Britain's terms of trade already, so to speak, in the pipeline.
1964 Observer 26 July 7/5 All these reforms will take time—and cause controversy—in the next Parliament. There are measures in the pipeline already.
1976 Broadcast 16 Feb. 4/1 There's a new soap in the pipeline... The series/serial..will be shown twice weekly.
1995 N.Y. Times 21 Mar. b3/2 The midyear cuts prevent the completion of some programs financed by Housing Opportunities and already in the pipeline for a three-year grant cycle.
2007 San Francisco Chron. 3 Oct. a3/1 To meet its 80,000-troop goal, the Army rushed enlistees into its ranks,..depleting the number in the pipeline for next year to less than 7,000.
c. Surfing. A very large wave; a hollow formed by the breaking of such a wave; a place where such waves are formed.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave
pounder1927
dumper1933
take-off1935
greeny1940
beach break1954
beacher1956
big kahuna1959
greenback1959
close out1962
curl1962
shore break1962
shoulder1962
soup1962
tube1962
wall1962
face1963
peak1963
pipeline1963
set1963
reef break1965
surfable wave1965
point break1966
green room1968
slide1968
barrel1975
left-hander1980
A-frame1992
1963 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 5 May 12/5 Pipeline, a very large tube (tube = hollow part of a wave).
1971 Times 9 Aug. 5/1 The Banzai pipe-line in Hawaii, where the waves can be 25 to 30 feet high.
1987 Boards Mar. 31/1 (advt.) The speed and power of a pipeline wave is like no other..wave in the world.
2003 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 25 Dec. 24 A gobsmacking ocean of enormous breaks, gnarly pipelines and amazing athleticism. Man, there are some giant waves here.
d. Computing. A linear sequence of specialized modules used for pipelining (pipelining n. 2).
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry > sequence of modules
pipeline1965
pipe1974
1964 W. Buchholz Planning Computer Syst. xiv. 204 The data flow through the computer..is comparable to a pipeline which, once filled, has a large output rate no matter what its length.]
1965 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 27 i. 491/1 The pipeline is characterized by a succession of register and gate units.
1977 Computing Surveys IX. 101/2 The CPU architecture of this machine is a simple pipeline served by four functional units.
1982 Sci. Amer. Jan. 120/3 In order to keep vector operands streaming at a rate of one word per clock period to feed a pipeline, vectors are stored with consecutive operands in different banks.
1995 Computer Feb. 23/1 Many of the applications presented here have been implemented using a pipeline architecture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pipelinev.
/ˈpʌɪplʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/ 1. transitive. To convey by a pipeline. Also: to provide (an oilfield, etc.) with a pipeline (rare).
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > drill for oil or gas [verb (transitive)] > supply with pipe-lines
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > convey by a channel or medium > through pipes
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1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/2 Russia has the finest oil-field in the world in the Transcaucasus, which she is now ‘pipe-lining’ down to the Black Sea.
1955 Times 25 May 17/2 A supply pipelined direct from a nearby oxygen producing works.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 Nov. 38/2 The provincial government was toying with a wholly uneconomical scheme for pipelining natural gas to Vancouver Island.
2001 Canad. Geographic May 45/2 From the plant, oil is pipelined to Edmonton, where it will be further refined.
2. transitive. Computing. To design or execute (an operation, process, etc.) using the technique of pipelining (pipelining n. 2).
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society > computing and information technology > [verb (transitive)] > use pipelining
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1971 Sci. Amer. Feb. 76/2 Current efforts in ‘pipelining’ the processing of ‘operands’ will allow a further significant increase in speed.
1972 IEEE Trans. Computers 21 881/1 This note will study the problem of pipelining the addition and multiplication functions of the arithmetic unit.
1995 Sci. Amer. Sept. 49/2 Chip designers pipeline the instructions, or low-level commands, given to the hardware.
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