pipeline
A pipeline is a series of pipes that liquid or gas flows through. A pipeline can also be a channel for other things, even ideas. The Internet is an information pipeline. No digging required!
While oil and natural gas often go through a pipeline, other substances are also transported this way, including water used for irrigation and even, in some cases, beer. You can use pipeline when you talk about other quick-moving things, like a source of goods, or even spoken communication. You could call the big companies in your city a kind of “job pipeline.” If you have an idea for a community pool in the pipeline, go ahead and hire the lifeguards!
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a pipe used to transport liquids or gases“a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport”
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synonyms:
line
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examples:
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trans-Alaska pipeline
an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez
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types:
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gas line
a pipeline used to transport natural gas
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oil pipeline
a pipeline used to transport oil
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trans-Alaska pipeline
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gossip spread by spoken communication
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synonyms:
grapevine, word of mouth
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type of:
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comment, gossip, scuttlebutt
a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
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comment, gossip, scuttlebutt
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