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Pipeline vs Duct - What's the difference?

pipeline | duct |

As nouns the difference between pipeline and duct

is that pipeline is a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc while duct is a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.

As verbs the difference between pipeline and duct

is that pipeline is to convey something by a system of pipes while duct is to channel something through a duct (or series of ducts.

pipeline

English

(wikipedia pipeline)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc
    • An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.
  • a channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
    • 3D images are rendered using the graphics pipeline .
  • a system through which something is conducted
    • A new version of the software is in the pipeline , but has not been rolled-out.
  • * April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
    • The gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do.
  • (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

    • Meronyms

    * pipe

    See also

    * queue * FIFO

    Verb

    (pipelin)
  • To convey something by a system of pipes
  • To lay a system of pipes through something
  • (computing) To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.

    • duct

    English

    (Wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
    • heating and air-conditioning ducts
  • An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs.
  • (obsolete) Guidance; direction.
    • otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations. — Henry Hammond.

    Derived terms

    * ductal * ducted * ducting * ductor * duct tape * Mullerian ducts * Wolffian ducts

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts)