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Pipeline vs Piping - What's the difference?

pipeline | piping |

As nouns the difference between pipeline and piping

is that pipeline is a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc while piping is the process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.

As verbs the difference between pipeline and piping

is that pipeline is to convey something by a system of pipes while piping is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective piping is

high-pitched.

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.

    • piping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  • The sound of musical pipes.
  • An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  • A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
    • the piping of a house
  • An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
  • An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  • Piped icing on a cake.
  • (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
  • (botany) propagation by cuttings

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • High-pitched.
    • His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

    Derived terms

    * piping hot

    See also

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