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noun

any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

Anatomy, Zoology. a tube, canal, or vessel conveying a body fluid, especially a glandular secretion or excretion.

Botany. a cavity or vessel formed by elongated cells or by many cells.

Electricity. a single enclosed runway for conductors or cables.

Printing. (in a press) the reservoir for ink.

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verb (used with object)

to convey or channel by means of a duct or ducts: Heat from the oven is ducted to the outside.

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Duct is always a great word to know.

So is alveolar structure. Does it mean:

tiny air sacs in the lungs

any of several glands, as the salivary glands, that secrete externally through a duct

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Origin:
1640–50; < Latin ductus conveyance (of water), hence channel (in ML), equivalent to duc- (variant stem of dūcere to lead) + -tus suffix of verbal action

Related forms

duct·less, adjective

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Example Sentences

Infection in the common bile duct from obstruction is common and serious.

Eventually, the polyester is unable to support the weight of the algae, and they fall off into a collection duct.

Insulation reduces the exchange of heat through a surface such as a wall, attic, duct or roof.

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Infection in the common bile duct from obstruction is common and serious.

Eventually, the polyester is unable to support the weight of the algae, and they fall off into a collection duct.

Insulation reduces the exchange of heat through a surface such as a wall, attic, duct or roof.

Along with friends, he built a hang glider from bamboo poles, duct tape and plastic.

Get some plastic tarps and/or sheeting and duct tape.

It poses less of a risk for bile duct injury compared with laparoscopy.

Matt uses duct tape to shut the mouth and shield the eyes.

The refrigerator hums in the corner of the kitchen, and the heat coming out of a duct over your head whooshes softly.

They are made of bamboo sticks, plastic bottles noses, foam board wings and duct tape.

His girlfriend found him this way, with his hands and feet bound by duct tape.

Salivary duct stones are crystallized minerals in the ducts that drain the salivary glands.

Apply masking or duct tape around the sharp screening edges to protect small hands from injury.

These build up in the duct and clog pores with a firm, oil-soaked plug.

Laptops can be ruggedized with lots of duct tape, tennis balls and pipe insulation.

However, if common duct stones are detected, they cannot be removed.

It was a little scary because the duct tape was pretty tight.

The fluke will then infect its new host's gall bladder and bile duct.

When the parts join together, a final duct called the pancreatic duct is formed.

With the possible exception of duct tape, there is nothing more versatile than a fleece vest.

Finally, the air duct cleaning shouldn't be a yearly event.

Urethane adhesive is the duct tape of the boating world, don't leave home without it.

Duct tape is often used to patch a wall, mend jeans or even hold the bumper on a car.

Duct taped this backwards toward sole of boot for a few days.

Invasive means it has spread from the milk duct or lobule to other tissues in the breast.

Soule wrapped himself in duct tape so his sweater wouldn't be ripped off when he hit the walls.

But she borrowed a roll of duct tape, for emergency foot maintenance, and carried on gamely.

Caulk all gaps around windows, doors, duct work and chases.

These fixes take much more than your average piece of duct tape.

Kantrowitz said, including one of his favorites, a contest to make the best prom outfits out of duct tape.

He does not know for sure but suspects that the duct cells need to be cheek by jowl with the islets to receive chemical feedback.

And since you have all that loose fabric hanging around, a well-done duct tape job can be easily masked from critical eyes.

Salivary duct stones are a type of salivary gland disorder.

Those smaller stones can get lodged in the duct and everything gets more complicated in terms of surgery, infection and recovery.

They wrapped the guards' heads in duct tape, leaving nose holes for.

She would scour her room before sleep, seal her windows with duct tape, and barricade the base of her door with a towel.

We also rebuilt the duct work and put in automatic dampers to create two zones, upstairs and downstairs, for heating and.

To continue he had to fashion a head stabilizer from a mattress and duct tape.

Each kid gets their own cordless driver and roll of duct tape.

Attach a duct of the same diameter to this fitting.

The cool air is fed into buildings with the same duct system already in place.

Not all are hand-me-down workhorses held together with duct tape and baling wire.

Add insulation around duct work to keep heat or cool air from transferring to the.

If noninvasive diagnostic tests suggest obstruction from common duct stones, the doctor will perform endoscopic retrograde.

They found no armed intruder, no hostages bound in duct tape.

Use white duct tape to tape two pieces of the fabric together.

The duct work often develops air leaks around seams and joints.

Cut a circular hole through the inside of the wall to accommodate the built-in duct.

Plastic sheeting along with duct tape and a dust mask.

Using a wider duct would diminish the force of the airflow and allow lint to settle at the bottom of the duct channel.

The cause was bile duct cancer, the commission said.

Fell through an apartment window while trying to remove duct tape.

The vent duct delivers combustion gases from the burner to outside the house.

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World English Dictionary

duct (dʌkt)

—n
1.	a tube, pipe, or canal by means of which a substance, esp a fluid or gas, is conveyed
2.	any bodily passage, esp one conveying secretions or excretions
3.	a narrow tubular cavity in plants, often containing resin or some other substance
4.	Also called: conduit a channel or pipe carrying electric cable or wires
5.	a passage through which air can flow, as in air conditioning
6.	the ink reservoir in a printing press

[C17: from Latin ductus a leading (in Medieval Latin: aqueduct), from dūcere to lead]

'ductless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

duct

1640s, from L. ductus "a leading," pp. of ducere "to lead" (see duke). Ductile was in M.E.

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Medical Dictionary

duct (dŭkt)
n.
A tubular bodily canal or passage, especially one for carrying a glandular secretion such as bile.

duct·al adj.

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Science Dictionary

duct (dŭkt) Pronunciation Key
A tube or tubelike structure through which something flows, especially a tube in the body for carrying a fluid secreted that is by a gland.

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