duct
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to anotherA pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
» Do you have any duct tape?
Meaning
6 sensesA pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
heating and air-conditioning ducts
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.
A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
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.
(obsolete)Guidance, direction.
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
Examples
23 sentencesDo you have any duct tape?
Where is the roll of duct tape?
I was told my tear duct was blocked.
Tom's mouth was taped shut with duct tape.
Duct tape is good for fixing anything.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from dūcō (“to lead, conduct, drBorrowed 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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Forms
plural: ductsSynonyms
3 synonyms- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance:epithelial ductcanalchannel