duct

IPA: dˈʌkt

noun

  • 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
  • (anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
  • (botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
  • (physics) 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

verb

  • to enclose in a duct
  • to channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
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Examples of "duct" in Sentences

  • Or rulers with a rubber band ball wrapped in duct-tape and used as a crappy maces.
  • Just like the Palestinian charity organizer who "killed" himself by wrapping himself in duct tape and drowning.
  • However, if your common bile duct is obstructed then your stool may lose color or become what is called "acholic".
  • For example, recently the New York State Forensic Science Commission was asked to accredit a unit of a police lab in duct tape comparison.
  • In another incident that month, interrogators wrapped a bearded prisoner's head in duct tape "because he would not stop quoting the Koran,"
  • Cox said the most recent reported pirate sighting had been Aug. 31, when boaters saw gunmen riding a small skiff with "Game Wardin" misspelled in duct tape on the side of the vessel.
  • The duct of the seminal vesicle joins the _vas deferens_ of the same side (both functionally and embryologically the seminal vesicle is no more than a diverticulum of the vas deferens); passing on under the name of the _common seminal_ or _ejaculatory duct_, the canal opens into the prostatic portion of the urethra (the orifices of the two common seminal ducts are in the folds of mucous membrane forming the right and left lateral margins of the _prostatic utricle_ or _uterus masculinus_).

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