duct
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4.1
- noun
- /dʌkt/
- Specialized
- They installed a new ventilation duct to improve air circulation in the office.
- bile duct
- common bile duct
- extrahepatic bile duct
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Watch on YouTubeAnd 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
394
1.0
A long hollow tube that carries water, gas, or oil
213
1.0
A long flexible tube used to carry water
188
3.7
A long pipe that carries oil or gas across land
109
4.0
A tube in the body that carries blood or lymph
108
2.5
A way for people or things to move through
49
7.4
A thin flexible tube that you put into the body to drain fluids or keep a passage open
37
6.2
A narrow tube in the body that carries fluid, for example in the ear or tooth
19
2.7
A long hollow pipe that carries liquids, gases, or small objects
18
2.8
A channel like a pipe that moves air to bring fresh air into buildings
16
2.5
A tube in the neck that carries air to the lungs
8
7.2
A passage that carries smoke and gas from a fireplace to the outside
7
4.7
A vertical passage in a building or mine that lets air move through spaces
6
7.0
A small tube in the body that carries liquids like sweat or tears
5
4.8
A tube that carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the small intestine
5
5.5
A bent tube used to move liquid from one container to a lower one
2
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
3.9
A tube that carries digestive juices from the pancreas to the small intestine
1
1.9
A long flexible tube used to carry water to a garden
1
3.7
A tiny tube in the skin that carries salty liquid from a gland to the outer skin
1
5.3
A pipe or duct that moves air for heating and cooling in buildings and machines
1
4.5
A passage that brings fresh air into mines and tunnels
1
7.4
A tube that carries sperm from the testicle to the penis
1
6.3
A tube that carries the liquid made by the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine
1
7.6
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
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
1
8.6
One of two tubes that carry semen from the vas deferens and seminal vesicle through the prostate to the urethra
- Specialized
1
6.3
A tube that carries the liquid made by the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine
- Specialized
1
7.6
A tube in the body lined with thin cells that carries a fluid like saliva or mucus
- Specialized
1
6.1
A small tube that carries tears from the tear gland to the eye surface
- Specialized
1
5.6
A body part that makes liquid like sweat or saliva and sends it through a tube to a surface
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.