I was told my tear duct was blocked.
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Duct
//dʌkt//
Synonyms for "duct" (47 found)
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3 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
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1 entriesTranslations
50 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀχετός noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Arabic
2 entries- شَأن noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- مَجْرى noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Armenian
2 entries- խողովակ noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- ծորան noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кана́л noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- тръба́ noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Catalan
1 entries- conducte noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 導管 /导管 noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- 管 noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- 管子 noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Danish
1 entries- kanal noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Dutch
2 entries- buis noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- leiding noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Finnish
2 entries- kanava noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- putki noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
French
3 entries- canalisation noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- conduit noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- tuyau noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Galician
1 entries- cano noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
German
2 entries- Leitung noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- Rohr noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Hebrew
3 entries- מוֹבָל noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- צִנּוֹר noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- תְּעָלָה noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Hungarian
3 entries- csatorna noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- cső noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- vezeték noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Irish
1 entries- ducht noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Italian
1 entries- condotto noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Japanese
2 entries- ダクト noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- 導管 noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Korean
1 entries- 덕트 noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Latin
1 entries- canālis noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Māori
1 entries- pū noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kanal noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kanal noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ماسوره noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Persian
4 entries- راه noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- لوله noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- مجرا noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- گذر noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Portuguese
2 entries- duto noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- tubo noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Russian
4 entries- воздухово́д noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- кана́л noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- прото́к noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
- труба́ noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Spanish
1 entries- conducto noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Tagalog
1 entries- anuran noun (pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
When the police entered the basement, they found Tom tied to a chair with duct tape over his mouth.
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Tom's mouth was taped shut with duct tape.
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My cat lies next to me when I play piano, but I think it's really appreciating the fabric of the bench and the warmth of the duct over it.
Source: tatoeba (3759997)
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