different between pipeline vs funnel

English

Etymology

From pipe +? line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?p?la?n/

Noun

pipeline (plural pipelines)

1. A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc.

   An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.

2. 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.

3. (figuratively) A system or process 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[1]

     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.

   • 2012, Olivier Nyirubugara, Surfing the Past: Digital Learners in the History Class (page 257)

     History education has also been considered as a pipeline that connects learners with 'their roots', thereby imbuing in them an awareness of their identity.
4. (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.

Meronyms

• pipe

Hyponyms

• continuous delivery pipeline

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (paipurain)

Translations

See also

• queue
• FIFO

Verb

pipeline (third-person singular simple present pipelines, present participle pipelining, simple past and past participle pipelined)

1. (computing, transitive) 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.
2. (transitive) To convey something by a system of pipes
3. (transitive) To lay a system of pipes through something
4. (rare, slang, transitive) To connect a tube from ones mouth to ones anus (or the anus of another), in order to force someone to eat feces.

Translations

References

• pipeline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.plin/

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. oil pipeline

Synonyms

• oléoduc

Further reading

• “pipeline” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

pipeline m (plural pipelines)

1. (computing) pipeline (set of data processing elements connected in series)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?n?l/
• Rhymes: -?n?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English funell, fonel, probably through Old French *founel (compare Middle French fonel, Old Occitan fonilh, enfounilh), from Latin fundibulum, infundibulum (“funnel”), from infundere (“to pour in”);in (“in”) + fundere (“to pour”); compare Breton founilh (“funnel”), Welsh ffynel (“air hole, chimney”). See fuse.

Noun

funnel (plural funnels)

1. A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
2. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• tundish

Verb

funnel (third-person singular simple present funnels, present participle funnelling or funneling, simple past and past participle funnelled or funneled)

1. (transitive) To use a funnel.
2. (intransitive) To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     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.

3. (transitive) To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
4. (transitive) To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.

Derived terms

• refunnel

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

funnel (plural funnels)

1. Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”)