duct
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
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.
Base: dūcō
Affixes: -tus
Inflected forms:
form: ducts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ducts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ducting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ducted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ducted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
pos: noun
examples: heating and air-conditioning ducts
The three motors on each bogie are force ventilated from a blower mounted in the adjacent nose-end compartment of the superstructure, the air being led by ducts and flexible bellows connections to the air inlet at the commutator end of the motor.
gloss: A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
pos: noun
gloss: A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
pos: noun
gloss: A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Guidance, direction.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […] otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations.
gloss: To enclose in a duct.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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:
lang: Arabic
word: شَأن
lang: Arabic
word: مَجْرى
lang: Armenian
word: ծորան
roman: coran
lang: Armenian
word: խողովակ
roman: xoġovak
lang: Bulgarian
word: кана́л
roman: kanál
lang: Bulgarian
word: тръба́
roman: trǎbá
lang: Catalan
word: conducte
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 管
roman: guǎn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 管子
roman: guǎnzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 導管 /导管
roman: dǎoguǎn
lang: Danish
word: kanal
lang: Dutch
word: buis
lang: Dutch
word: leiding
lang: Finnish
word: kanava
lang: Finnish
word: putki
lang: French
word: tuyau
lang: French
word: conduit
lang: French
word: canalisation
lang: Galician
word: cano
lang: German
word: Leitung
lang: German
word: Rohr
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀχετός
roman: okhetós
lang: Hebrew
word: צִנּוֹר
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּעָלָה
lang: Hebrew
word: מוֹבָל
roman: movál
lang: Hungarian
word: cső
lang: Hungarian
word: vezeték
lang: Hungarian
word: csatorna
lang: Irish
word: ducht
lang: Italian
word: condotto
lang: Japanese
word: ダクト
roman: dakuto
lang: Japanese
word: 導管
roman: dōkan
lang: Korean
word: 덕트
roman: deokteu
lang: Latin
word: canālis
lang: Māori
word: pū
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kanal
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kanal
lang: Persian
word: مجرا
roman: mejrâ
lang: Persian
word: گذر
roman: gozar
lang: Persian
word: راه
roman: râh
lang: Persian
word: لوله
roman: lule
lang: Portuguese
word: duto
lang: Portuguese
word: tubo
lang: Russian
word: кана́л
roman: kanál
lang: Russian
word: труба́
roman: trubá
lang: Russian
word: прото́к
roman: protók
lang: Russian
word: воздухово́д
roman: vozduxovód
lang: Spanish
word: conducto
lang: Tagalog
word: anuran
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ماسوره
roman: masura, masra