Pipeline vs Funnel - What's the difference?
pipeline | funnel |
a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc
a channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
a system through which something is conducted
* April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
(surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
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.
A utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel.
A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
To use a funnel.
To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to narrow or condense.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
To direct (money or resources).
In transitive terms the difference between pipeline and funnel
is that pipeline is to lay a system of pipes through something while funnel is to direct (money or resources).pipeline
English
(wikipedia pipeline)Noun
(en noun)- An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.
- 3D images are rendered using the graphics pipeline .
- A new version of the software is in the pipeline , but has not been rolled-out.
- 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.
Meronyms
* pipeSee also
* queue * FIFOVerb
(pipelin)funnel
English
(wikipedia funnel)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* funnel box * funnel mark * funnel plot * funnel staySee also
* tundishVerb
- Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.
- A line of clocks in our cheap hotel displays the time in Lagos, Bucharest, Kiev: the capitals of pilgrims who come to kneel at the birthplace of Christ. In reality the entire world funnels through the Church of the Nativity.
- Our taxes are being funnelled into pointless government initiatives.