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A river you build, point at money, and dare to leak.
means A line of pipes for carrying liquids or gases over distance, or by extension any continuous channel through which things steadily flow — from oil to data to job candidates moving toward a goal.
from A plain compound of "pipe" and "line." "Pipe" comes from Old English "pipe," a tube or musical reed, ultimately from Latin "pipare," to chirp or peep — the same imitative root behind the bird's cheep, because the earliest pipes were things you blew through. "Line" descends from Latin "linea," originally a thread of linen ("linum"). So a pipeline is literally a thread of tubes — a phrase that surfaced in the 19th century as industrial America began laying long runs of pipe for oil and gas, then drifted into figurative use for anything funneled steadily along a path.
- longest
- The West-East Gas Pipeline runs over 8,700 kilometers
- pig launchers
- Cleaning robots inside pipes are literally called pigs
- deep dive
- Some undersea pipelines lie below 2,000 meters of ocean
- word origin
- Career pipeline borrowed the metaphor from oil flow
- sales speak
- A salesperson's pipeline is hope measured in dollars
colonial pipeline — 2,300-mile fuel pipeline from texas to new jersey, shut down by ransomware attack may 2021
alaska pipeline — 800-mile trans-alaska oil pipeline completed 1977, carries crude from prudhoe bay to valdez
keystone xl — proposed 1,179-mile crude oil pipeline from canada to nebraska, cancelled by biden in 2021