duct
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4.1
- noun
- /dʌkt/
- Specialized
:
conducto
- They installed a new ventilation duct to improve air circulation in the office.
- bile duct
- common bile duct
- extrahepatic bile duct
And it has got little ducts in it, little ducts like that.
- And it has got little ducts in it, little ducts like that.
- You suppress the female reproductive pathway like the like the Mullerian ducts.
- But generally speaking, people will be very happy with the tear duct, bride bone and under eye shadow.
Examples
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But they must come and go via the plumbing ducts that I've provided.
Fiction book (1992) -
After that, we need to cut the power, so we can move freely through the interior air ducts.
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So they took that hole and they ran a duct from that hole into the window of the car.
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Once we get all this duct work in, this should just fly.
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These ducts were specifically designed for this system.
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All right, Brandon, I see five ducts in this room.
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I do not know if it's an air duct or a true passage.
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There's something wedged down in here right by the air duct.
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Mack had heard him through the air duct that snaked up behind the walls.
Fiction book (1990) -
The rats are living in the ducts right into the heater so they could stay warm.
Synonyms
344
1.0
A long hollow tube that carries water, gas, or oil
183
1.0
A long flexible tube used to carry water
141
4.0
A tube in the body that carries blood or lymph
115
2.5
A way for people or things to move through
106
3.7
A long pipe that carries oil or gas across land
64
7.4
A thin flexible tube that you put into the body to drain fluids or keep a passage open
47
6.2
A narrow tube in the body that carries fluid, for example in the ear or tooth
22
2.7
A long hollow pipe that carries liquids, gases, or small objects
16
2.5
A tube in the neck that carries air to the lungs
13
2.8
A channel like a pipe that moves air to bring fresh air into buildings
10
7.0
A small tube in the body that carries liquids like sweat or tears
6
4.7
A vertical passage in a building or mine that lets air move through spaces
5
7.2
A passage that carries smoke and gas from a fireplace to the outside
5
4.8
A tube that carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine
1
3.5
A channel that moves air in or out of places like buildings and mines
1
8.3
A tube in the body that carries fluids like blood or bile
1
4.5
A passage that brings fresh air into mines and tunnels
1
5.5
A bent tube used to move liquid from one container to a lower one
1
1.9
A long flexible tube used to carry water to a garden
1
5.3
A pipe or duct that moves air for heating and cooling in buildings and machines
1
3.9
A tube that carries digestive juices from the pancreas to the small intestine
1
3.7
A tiny tube in the skin that carries salty liquid from a gland to the outer skin
A tube in the body lined with thin cells that carries a fluid like saliva or mucus
A very small tube in the body that carries fluids like bile or tears
A tiny tube that carries fluid in the body
A tube that carries the liquid made by the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine
A tube that carries sperm from the testicle to the penis
Compounds
- Specialized
5
4.8
A tube that carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine
- Specialized
2
3.7
A tube that carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine
- Specialized
1
3.9
A tube that carries digestive juices from the pancreas to the small intestine
- Specialized
1
3.7
A tiny tube in the skin that carries salty liquid from a gland to the outer skin
- Specialized
1
6.9
A large tube that carries the clear fluid called lymph from most of the body into the blood
- Specialized
A body part that makes liquid like sweat or saliva and sends it through a tube to a surface
- Specialized
One of two tubes that carry semen from the vas deferens and seminal vesicle through the prostate to the urethra
- Specialized
A tube in the body lined with thin cells that carries a fluid like saliva or mucus
- Specialized
A small tube that carries tears from the tear gland to the eye surface
- Specialized
A tube that carries the liquid made by the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
Duct comes from the old Latin verb ducere meaning 'to lead'. Think of an aqueduct that leads water to a city, and a duct is any tube or channel that 'leads' air, liquid, or other things from one place to another.