The screams are harmonic tremors, and researchers at the University of Washington believe they are caused when magma is forced through a narrow conduit at greater and greater pressure into the heart of the volcano.
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Conduit
//ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt//
Synonyms for "conduit" (60 found)
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Related words (30)
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83 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀχετός noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Bulgarian
2 entries- тръба noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- тръбопровод noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Catalan
1 entries- conducte noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Dutch
4 entries- buis noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- kanaal noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
- leiding noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- pijp noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
Finnish
4 entries- asennusputki noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
- johto noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- kaapelikanava noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
- roilo noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
French
1 entries- canal noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
German
4 entries- Aquädukt noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- Elektroinstallationsrohr noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
- Führung noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
- Führungskanal noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
Hungarian
4 entries- csatorna noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- cső noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- csővezeték noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- gégecső noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
Italian
2 entries- condotto noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- condotto noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
Latin
1 entries- canālis noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Polish
4 entries- kanał noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- kanał noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
- kanał kablowy noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
- rura noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Portuguese
1 entries- conduíte noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
Russian
3 entries- водово́д noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- кабель-канал noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
- проводни́к noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- seòl-phìob noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Spanish
1 entries- conducto noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Swedish
3 entries- kanal noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
- ledning noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
- vattenledningsrör noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
Turkish
4 entries- bağlantı noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
- bağlantı hattı noun (A means by which something is transmitted)
- boru hattı noun (pipe or channel for conveying water)
- elektrik borusu noun (duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.
Source: wiktionary
Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.
Source: wiktionary
The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.