blowhole vs pipeline

blowhole

noun
  • A vent for the escape of steam or other gas. 

  • A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled. 

  • The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe. 

  • A vertical opening in the top of a computer case that lets hot air (primarily from the CPU heat sink) escape quickly. 

  • An unintended cavity filled with air in a casting product. 

verb
  • To fill or be filled with air in an unintended cavity. 

pipeline

noun
  • 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 or process through which something is conducted. 

  • The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To connect a tube from ones mouth to ones anus (or the anus of another), in order to force someone to eat feces. 

  • To convey something by a system of pipes 

  • To lay a system of pipes through something 

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