EGAVE

duct

About 6.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

canal channel wire pipeline hose conduit flue cable louver bezel

Often followed by

and is of tape system in or to obstruction

Word family

ductal ducted ducting ductless ducts

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