pipeline

pipeline Definition

☆ pipe·line (pīp′līn′)

noun

transitive verb -·lined′, -·lin′·ing

to convey by, or supply with, a pipeline

pipeline Finance Definition

A ubiquitous term that often is used to refer to the amount of business that a company expects to receive in the coming months or year. Typically it is used when companies have a long time between the placement of orders and when the goods or services actually are delivered. Companies talk about the pipeline being full to indicate that they have a solid backlog of orders.
In the energy market, the way crude oil, gasoline, or natural gas is delivered to refiners.

pipeline Usage Examples

Possessives

plc: Xenova Group plc's product pipeline focuses principally on the therapeutic areas of cancer and immune system disorders.

Converse of object

bury: Projects under investigation include failure of motorway embankments with time, and movement of pipelines buried in the ocean floor.
flush: This had to be done because the GL hardware flushes the pipeline automatically on every vertical retrace and has no command to flush.
lay: Barrow is: the base for laying offshore pipelines.
construct: Oil can be transported to the city in tankers or via specially constructed under-water pipeline.
build: The father decides to build a pipeline to bring fresh water to their rustic home.

Adjective modifier

onshore: The level of pressure in the pipeline will be three times the typical international standards set for onshore pipelines.
undersea: Business planned to build gas terminal, which would be linked by an undersea pipeline to underground storage facilities.
cross-country: A cross-country pipeline is one which exceeds 10 miles in length.
underground: Now the total length of underground pipelines exceeds some 30,000 km.
offshore: Barrow is: the base for laying offshore pipelines.

Modifies a noun

bundle: Completion of the drilling operations will allow installation of the subsea pipeline bundle during December and January.
leak: Pipeline leaks and explosions are commonplace, in part because the monopoly lacks sufficient funds for basic maintenance of equipment.

Noun used with modifier

subsea: It also provides valuable insights into flow assurance analysis in subsea pipeline design.
vertex: Note: It's not possible to change drawing attributes ( color, ... ) in the middle of a vertex pipeline in Ygl.
interconnector: The market has also seen erratic flows of gas through the interconnector pipeline.
gas: In the case of gas, consumers are linked to a central network of gas pipelines.
pixel: The Volari V8 is a fully DirectX 9 compliant part with 8 pixel pipelines.
oil: There was also a major oil pipeline from the Caspian to the Black Sea, passing through Chechnya, which was valuable to Russia.

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