English Explanatory Dictionary

duct

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
  2. An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
  3. A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
  4. A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
  5. 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.
  6. Guidance, direction.
verb
  1. To enclose in a duct.
  2. To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts.

Pronunciation

dŭkt /dʌkt/ en-us-duct.ogg

Word forms

duct ducts ducting ducted

Etymology

Borrowed 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.

Related words

abduct adduct conduct deduct induct subduct

Derived words

aeroduct air-duct aqueduct bypass duct caliduct caloriduct coelomoduct common bile duct ductal duct detector duct engine duct flute ductiform ductile ductless ductlike ducto- duct- ductography ductoscopy duct tape ductule ductway ductwork Gaertner's duct Gartner's duct gonaduct gonoduct hepatic duct intraduct lipoduction mesonephric duct microduct Mullerian duct oviduct polyduct right lymphatic duct spermaduct spermoduct submandibular duct submaxillary duct tympanic duct urogenital duct vanishing bile duct syndrome ventiduct vestibular duct viaduct Wharton's duct ducted ductible ducting duction ductor reduct

Translations

Arabic: شَأن Arabic: مَجْرى Armenian: ծորան Armenian: խողովակ Bulgarian: кана́л Bulgarian: тръба́ Catalan: conducte Chinese Mandarin: 管 Chinese Mandarin: 管子 Chinese Mandarin: 導管 /导管 Danish: kanal Dutch: buis Dutch: leiding Finnish: kanava Finnish: putki French: tuyau French: conduit French: canalisation Galician: cano German: Leitung German: Rohr Ancient Greek: ὀχετός Hebrew: צִנּוֹר Hebrew: תְּעָלָה Hebrew: מוֹבָל Hungarian: cső Hungarian: vezeték Hungarian: csatorna Irish: ducht Italian: condotto Japanese: ダクト Japanese: 導管 Korean: 덕트 Latin: canālis Māori: pū Norwegian Bokmål: kanal Norwegian Nynorsk: kanal Persian: مجرا Persian: گذر Persian: راه Persian: لوله Portuguese: duto Portuguese: tubo Russian: кана́л Russian: труба́ Russian: прото́к Russian: воздухово́д Spanish: conducto Tagalog: anuran Ottoman Turkish: ماسوره
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