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Duct

//dʌkt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.

    "heating and air-conditioning ducts"

  2. 2
    an enclosed conduit for a fluid wordnet
  3. 3
    A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.; An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
  4. 4
    a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance wordnet
  5. 5
    A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.; A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
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  1. 6
    a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls wordnet
  2. 7
    A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.; A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
  3. 8
    A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path.
  4. 9
    Guidance, direction. obsolete

    "[…] otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations."

Verb
  1. 1
    To enclose in a duct. transitive
  2. 2
    To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, draw”) + -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.

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