pipeline
noun
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.
pipelined
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past participleof pipeline.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pipeline.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pipelinenouna 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.
Example Sentences
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Blackford Oakes, Yale '51, is pipelined by the old-boy network straight into the CIA.
From Time Magazine Archive
The glass-bottom boats that take tourists out to marvel at the Gulf of Aqaba's coral formations rock in the swells of supertankers bringing Persian Gulf oil into Eilat to be. pipelined to the Mediterranean.
From Time Magazine Archive
It could be pipelined to Murmansk, liquefied and shipped to the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a pipelined machine, this can take a while. :stale pointer bug: /n./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Eric S. Raymond
On a pipelined machine, this can take a while.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
