Pipeline Meaning
/ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
Listen pronunciation
Definition
nounA conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
nounA channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
Sentence Examples
The single pipeline serves all the house with water.
This is the pipeline which supplies the town with gas.
There are plans to lay a gas pipeline through the region.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
None
CEFR Practice Quiz
The company built a long ____ to transport oil across the state.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new oil ____ will transport crude from the northern fields to the refinery on the coast.
Word Origin & History
From pipe + line.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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, Olivier Nyirubugara, Surfing the Past: Digital Learners in the History Class, page 257:
"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 […]"
— 2012 November 26, Julianne Hing, “The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline”, in Colorlines:
"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."
— 2022 December 14, “Network News: A pipeline of work key for apprentices”, in RAIL, number 972, page 17:
"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."
— 2021, Marc A. Ouellette, Playing with the Gays: Masculinity and Relations in Video Games, →ISBN, page 214:
"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."
— 2022, Simon A. Purdue, Race, Gender and Violence on the Transatlantic Extreme Right, 1969–2009, →ISBN, page 17:
Explore More B2 Vocabulary Words
CEFR Practice Quiz
The company built a long ____ to transport oil across the state.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new oil ____ will transport crude from the northern fields to the refinery on the coast.