oil pipeline
12
2.9
- noun
- /ɔɪl ˈpaɪplaɪn/
- Specialized
:
oleoducto
- Kurdish leaders have an interest in the autonomy they have already secured, but with access to functioning oil pipelines leading south.
- build an oil pipeline
- Iraqi oil pipeline
- oil pipelines and gas
Thursday quoting Fox News The Keystone XL oil pipeline won't use US steel despite Trump pledge.
- Thursday quoting Fox News The Keystone XL oil pipeline won't use US steel despite Trump pledge.
- A large amount of Chinese lending to Russia was in the form of prepayments for oil deliveries through the Russia China oil pipeline.
Examples
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The country now has two small oil pipelines: one through Russia, the other through Georgia to the Black Sea.
Academic text (1998) -
The number of accidents with oil pipelines that resulted in oil discharges increased in 1991 relative to the previous year.
Academic text (1993) -
There are acres of oil pipeline down there.
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Instead, he canceled things like the oil pipeline that would have created jobs.
Blog text (28) -
Russia has also attempted to gain control of gas and oil pipelines elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Academic text (2010) -
Again, we heard misleading and exaggerated claims about a controversial oil pipeline from Canada.
Blog text (23) -
Similarly, oil pipelines typically require throughput guarantees from shippers before they can be financed.
Academic text (1990) -
Palin was married to a blue-collar worker who labored alternately on a fishing boat and an oil pipeline.
Academic text (2010) -
To win over Turkey, Russia expressed support for the Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipeline to be built in Turkey by Eni and the Turkish Alik Enerji.
Academic text (2010) -
The State Department ordered changes in the route of a proposed oil pipeline from Canada.
Synonyms
How Long
1
4.5
- Specialized
12
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pipe or system of pipes used to transport oil' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'oil' (the substance) with 'pipeline' (a system of pipes). This noun+noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Oil pipeline comes from the simple image of a pipeline, a long line of pipes that carries oil from the wells to a refinery or port. That's why oil pipeline means 'a large pipe or system of pipes used to transport oil over long distances'.