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# pipeline

«pipeline» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long line of pipes that carries oil, gas or water over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a pipeline, pipelines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long line of pipes that carries oil, gas or water over long distances. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#m1)

2) «In the pipeline»: being planned or prepared, coming soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography: oil and gas pipelines cross countries and seas. In everyday talk: «A new playground is in the pipeline.» In computing, a pipeline is a series of steps that data passes through.

### examples

- The pipeline carries gas across the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#x1)
- A new swimming pool is in the pipeline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#x2)
- Water flows through the pipeline to the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#x3)
- Workers checked the pipeline for leaks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#x4)
- Big changes are in the pipeline at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#x5)
- The oil pipeline is hundreds of miles long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/#x6)

### note

Countable. One word. Phrase: «in the pipeline» = coming soon.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pipeline» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pipeline/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.