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Definition: Duct |
DuctNoun1. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance. 2. A continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls. 3. An enclosed conduit for a fluid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "duct" was first used: 1650. (references) |
Etymology: Duct \Duct\, noun. [Latin expression ductus leading, conducting, conduit, from ducere, ductum, to lead. See Duke, and compare to Douche.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | Specifically, a tube or passage that confines and conducts a fluid, as a passage for the flow of air to the compressor of a gas-turbine engine, a pipe leading air to a supercharger, etc. (references) |
Chemical Industry | A part of an inking device. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A layer, usually in the lower atmosphere, occasionally of great horizontal extent, in which the vertical refractive index gradients are such that radio signals are guided or focused within the duct and tend to follow the curvature of the earth with much less than normal attenuation. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Non-rotating duct structure which provides a diffusor section behind the rotor that produces a power augmentation of considerable magnitude(1, 5 to 2-fold)for a given size rotor. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | The round or rectangular tube(s), generally constructed of sheet metal, fiberglass board, or a flexible plastic-and-wire composite, located within a wall, floor, and ceiling that distributes heated or cooled air in buildings. (s). (references) |
| A passageway made of sheet metal or other suitablematerial used for conveying air or other gas at relatively low pressures. (references) | |
Health | A tube through which body fluids pass. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Passage or tube that confines and conducts fluid. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A pipe used for conveying fluids. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | A brickwork or metal flue. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A pipe or tubing used for auxiliary ventilation in a mine. Generallyconstructed of coated fabric, metal, or fiberglass. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | A passageway for conveying fluids, in air conditioning, usually taken as air duct. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, the term duct has the following meanings:1. In interfacility cabling, a conduit, which may be direct-earth buried or encased in concrete, used to enclose communications or power cables.
Note: For maximum resistance to rodent attack, direct-earth-buried conduit should have an outside diameter equal to or greater than 6 cm (2.25 in.).
2. See atmospheric duct.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Duct."
Synonyms: DuctSynonyms: canal (n), channel (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am Jack's raging bile duct. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South (Jackass; writing credit: Donald Spoto; Eric Overmyer) If I had some duct tape, I could fix that (MacGyver; writing credit: John Gorrie) All rare and wonderful qualities to have, but when you're 15 they get you duct taped to a locker (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if you have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lies & Duct Tape P-Tex (1994) | |
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 | Breast cancer invades normal tissues and establishes new centers of growth. Note that the duct on inside of breast is completely filled with tumor cells. This histological slide, stained with H&E stain and magnified to 100x. Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox (photographer). |  | An infiltrating ductal carcinoma of human breast tissue, magnified x330, is seen surrounding a normal duct (1). The cancer cells (2) are larger and more irregular than their normal counterparts (3). The cytoplasm of the tumor cells is stained with a monoclonal antibody which recognizes a carcinoembryonic type antigen (cea) found within the malignant cells. The monoclonal antibody was developed in the NCI research laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey Schlom. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Line drawing showing large intestine, duodenum, gall bladder, liver, bile duct, esophagus, pancreas and stomach. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | An alveolar duct is seen in the center. The alveoli are poorly developed and have markedly thickened walls. Macrophages are present in the alveolar spaces; H&E stain; magnification 100X. Credit: CDC. |
 | B & H Aircraft, 441 Eastern Parkway, Farmingdale. Titanium duct. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Duct tape head" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Duct tape head...dont ask =)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Health | Training in laparoscopic common bile duct exploration is encouraged. (references) | |
Then the cystic duct is cut and the gallbladder removed through one of the small incisions. (references) | ||
An injured common bile duct can leak bile and cause a painful and potentially dangerous infection. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Duct" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Duct" is used about 198 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 198 | 21,729 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "duct": Acoustic duct ♦ air distribution duct ♦ air duct ♦ bile duct ♦ Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ Cochlear Duct ♦ Common Bile Duct ♦ Common Bile Duct Calculi ♦ Common Bile Duct Diseases ♦ Common Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ Common Bile Duct Obstruction ♦ Cystic Duct ♦ Cystic Duct Obstruction ♦ D duct ♦ duct gland ♦ duct tape ♦ ejaculatory duct ♦ elevated duct ♦ Endolymphatic Duct ♦ external acoustic duct ♦ Gall duct ♦ gum duct ♦ hepatic duct ♦ insulated duct ♦ intercellular duct ♦ internal acoustic duct ♦ lachrymal duct ♦ lacrimal duct ♦ Lacrimal Duct Obstruction ♦ lactiferous duct ♦ Lymph duct ♦ nasolacrimal duct ♦ pancreatic duct ♦ resin duct ♦ salivary duct ♦ Salivary Duct Calculi ♦ secondary duct ♦ segmental duct ♦ seminal duct ♦ shrouded duct ♦ straight duct ♦ sweat duct ♦ tear duct ♦ thoracic duct ♦ traumatic duct ♦ ventilating duct ♦ Vitelline Duct ♦ Wolffian duct ♦ wound duct. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "duct": duct-blocking, duct-borne, duct-laying, duct-sharing, duct-ventilated. | |
Ending with "duct": excretory-duct, oil-duct, power-duct, pro-duct, Sani-duct, sweat-duct, tear-duct. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
duct tape | 685 | duct tape use | 38 |
100 110 120 duct kit model model model | 293 | brake duct | 36 |
duct | 219 | flex duct | 35 |
duct tape wart | 194 | air conditioning duct | 33 |
duct cleaning | 190 | duct cleaning equipment | 32 |
air duct cleaning | 148 | make a duct tape wallet | 30 |
duct tape wallet | 130 | duct insulation | 30 |
duct kit | 105 | clogged duct milk | 29 |
duct taped | 101 | clogged duct tear | 29 |
air duct | 74 | duct sizing | 28 |
bile duct | 71 | duct removal tape wart | 28 |
duct fan | 69 | duct hvac | 27 |
duct tape bondage | 68 | heating duct | 27 |
blocked tear duct | 62 | duct board | 25 |
bile duct cancer | 60 | cleaning duct ottawa | 25 |
duct work | 59 | duct prom tape | 25 |
duct tear | 49 | craft duct tape | 24 |
thyroglossal duct cyst | 48 | duct design | 21 |
flexible duct | 42 | duct plantar tape wart | 20 |
air duct cleaning equipment | 39 | bus duct | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "duct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tubacion (drain, funnel, pipes, piping, tubing), tub (conduit, fistula, pipe, pole, tube, tubing), kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, ditch, drain, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse), gyp (canal, channel, chimney, conduit, fistula, funnel, pipe, stack, trumpet, tube, vent). (various references) | |
Arabic | نقل بأنبوب, قناة (aqueduct, canal, channel, chase, conduit, cut, ditch, gutter, passage, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway), وريد (lode, vein), أنبوب (channel, conduit, hosepipe, igniter, pipe, poop, streamer, tube, tubing, tunnel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трахея (trachea, windpipe), канал (aqueduct, canal, channel, cut, ditch, gutter, mortise, passage, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, trench, vas, vessel). (various references) | |
Chinese | 输送管. (various references) | |
Czech | roura (pipe, tube). (various references) | |
Danish | ductus, ventilationsrør (ventilation duct), spreder (diffuser, diffusing apparatus, diffusor, divergent, irrigator, light diffuser, rainer, shroud, spreader, sprinkler), rende (apron, channel, chute, cutting, diversion cut, drain, furrow, glass receiver, grip, groove, gut, gutter, lead, rill, scoop, sulcus, tin, tray, tray bar, trench, trough), rørledning (conduit, line, main, pipe, pipeline, tubing), rør (barrel, channel, pipe, tube), ledning (conduction, conductor, conduit, cord, flue, lead, line, trunk, wire), krydsning (cross, cross breeding, crossbreeding, cross-breeding, crossing, crossroadsÖøø ø è>ô:, decussation, hybridization, interlacing, intersection, junction, road junction, stitch, traverse), koncentrator (concentration stage, concentrator, data circuit concentrator, data concentrator, shroud, solar concentrator), kanalrør, kanal (canal, channel), fure (channel, furrow, groove, ploughed furrow, rill, sulcus, trench), farvekasse. (various references) | |
Dutch | ductus, duct, turbinemantel (shroud), poederleiding (dust circuit, dust line, dusting tube, plumbing), pijp (pipe, rod), ommanteling (coverings, sheath, shroud), luchtkoker (fan, ventilation duct, ventilator), leiding (direction, guide, platform, stage, steering), kruising (intersection), kanaal (barrel, canal, channel, pipe, strait, tube), inktbak (fountain), goot (Goth), buis (barrel, channel, jacket, pipe, tube), afvoergreppel (channel, rill, trench), afvoergoot (channel, diversion cut, gutter, rill, trench). (various references) | |
Farsi | مجرای لنف , مجرا (Channel, Conduit, Cullis, Gullet, Gully, Runway, Strand, Tube, Vessel), لوله اب (Stave), خطسیر (Itinerary, Pathway, Rake, Trajectory, Vector). (various references) | |
Finnish | värilaatikko (colour box), värikaukalo (fountain), tunneli (subway, tunnel), troposfäärikanava, tiehyt (canal, channel), rengas (link, ring, tire, tyre), ränni (drainpipe, water spout), putkisto (pipe layout, piping), oja (ditch, drain), kouru (channel, gutter, spout), kehä (circle, circumference, pen, periphery), kastelukanava (catch feeder, channel, irrigation canal, irrigation canals, irrigation channel, rill, trench), kanava (canal, channel, meatus), johdin (conductor, suffix, wire). (various references) | |
French | conduit. (various references) | |
German | Schacht (chute, drain, funnel, manhole, shaft, well), Röhre (barrel, boob tube, box, cavity, channel, drainage pipe, gallery, oven, pipe, stem, strip, telly, tube, tubing, valve), Leitung (cable, chairmanship, conducting, conduction, cords, direction, diversion, guidance, guiding, lead, leaders, leadership, leading, line, main, management, pilotage, pipe, pipeline, principalship, routing, running, wire), Kanal (canal, channel, ditch, drain, sewer, ship canal), Führung (captaincy, command, commanders, conduct, direction, directors, guidance, guide, guided tour, guideway, keeping, lead, leaders, leadership, location, management, running, Van, vanguard). (various references) | |
Greek | κωνοειδής αγωγός (shroud), σωλήνωση (conduit, piping, tubing), σωλήνασ (canal, conduit, drain, pipe, piping, tube), σωλήνας αέρα (line), σωλήνας (pipe, tube, tubing), συγκεντρωτής (concentration stage, concentrator, data circuit concentrator, data concentrator, shroud, speech interpolator), γραμμή αέρα (line), μελανοκιβώτιο, άκαμπτος αγωγός (dusting tube), άκαμπτος αυλός (dusting tube), αγωγόσ (canal, channel, conductor, conduit, pipe), αγωγός (pipeline), αεραγωγός (adapter, brattice, line), διασταύρωση (cross, cross pollination, crossbreed, cross-fertilization, crossing, junction, traverse), διαχυτής (shroud). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוביל מים (aqueduct, conduit), ביב (drain, gutter, sewer), צנור (canal, channel, ditch, hose, jet, pipe, spout, tube). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csatorna (aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, course, delf, delft, ditch, drain, flume, furrow, gutter, tubule, watercourse). (various references) | |
Indonesian | saluran (canal, channel, dike, shoot), pembuluh (artery, confection), bandar (croupier, ditch, dock, harbour, port, trading-town, water course). (various references) | |
Italian | condotto (barrel, channel, conducted, conduit, gully, pipe, piped, shaft, tube). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脈管 (blood vessel, vascular system), ダウ平均株価 (10^1, bolster used for warmth when sleeping, cageused in bed in the tropics, da, daka-, Dakota, dash, Dow-Jones average, dubbing, dumpster, dust box, dust-coat, duster, life-sized doll used for masturbation, recording), 導管 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダクト , どうかん (agreement, concurrence, same feeling, same opinion, sympathy, Taoist temple), どうけん (discernment, equal rights, insight, the same prefecture, the same rights), みゃっかん (blood vessel, vascular system). (various references) | |
Korean | 덕트. (various references) | |
Manx | pioban (pipe, throttle, tube), feddyn (acquire, acquisition, find, get, locate, obtain, strike), duct. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uctday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | canal (channel, conduit, deferent, dike, dyke, fosse, gat, gate, gullet, hollow, isthmus, meatus, outlet, runway, tube, watercourse, water-way), canalização (canalization, drain, pipage, pipelaying, piping, plumbing). (various references) | |
Romanian | conductã (conduit, flue, pipe, pipe line, tube), canal (canal, channel, conduit, ditch, flume, Fosse, gut, gutter, hose, jet, sewer, sound, the airways, trough). (various references) | |
Russian | канал (aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, pass, tract, watercourse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cev (pipe, stem, tube). (various references) | |
Spanish | conducto (canal, channel, conduit, pipe, pipeline, piping, shaft). (various references) | |
Swedish | rör (barrel, cane, channel, conduit, pipe, piping, Reed, touch, tube, tubing, tubular skate, valve), kanal (canal, channel, conduit, gully, passage, track). (various references) | |
Thai | ท่อ. (various references) | |
Turkish | tüp (gas cylinder, tube), kanal (canal, chamfer, channel, chute, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, flume, gullet, gully, meatus, pass, passage, station, vessel), boru (barrel, bugle, channel, Clarion, conduit, drain, horn, pipe, trump, trumpet, tube). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трубопровід (conduit, pipe, pipeline, piping, tubing), капіляр (capillary), прохід (access, alleyway, canal, gangway, orifice, pass, passageway, passover, thoroughfare, walkway). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ống dẫn, ống (tubing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ductus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "duct": ductal, ducted, ductile, ductilities, ductility, ducting, ductings, ductless, ducts, ductule, ductules, ductwork, ductworks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "duct": abduct, adduct, aeroduct, aqueduct, byproduct, conduct, coproduct, deduct, educt, induct, misconduct, multiproduct, oviduct, photoproduct, product, reinduct, subduct, subproduct, superconduct, viaduct. (additional references) | |
Words containing "duct": abducted, abductee, abductees, abducting, abduction, abductions, abductor, abductores, abductors, abducts, adducted, adducting, adduction, adductions, adductive, adductor, adductors, adducts, aeroducts, antireductionism, antireductionisms, antireductionist, antireductionists, aqueducts, byproducts, conductance, conductances, conducted, conductibilities, conductibility, conductible, conductimetric, conducting, conduction, conductions, conductive, conductivities, conductivity, conductometric, conductor, conductorial, conductors, conductress, conductresses, conducts, coproduction, coproductions, coproducts, cotransduction, cotransductions, counterproductive. (additional references) | |
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"Duct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dacot, dact, Dactu, dakt, dauc, dcd, Decst, dect, decto, dectp, dicht, dict, dicto, dicty, ditc, docet, doct, Docta, docte, douc, douct, duat, dubt, duc, duca, ducet, duch, duci, ducit, Duco, ducta, ducte, ducti, ducty, duft, duit, Duk, dukt, Dukw, dult, dunt, duoc, dupt, durt, dut, dutce, duth, dutp, dycp, fuct, iduct, uct, udcf, Utc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "duct" (pronounced du"kt) |
| 4 | d u" k t | abduct, conduct, deduct, ducked, induct. |
| 3 | -u" k t | bucked, chucked, construct, deconstruct, destruct, instruct, obstruct, plucked, reconstruct, shucked, sucked, trucked, tucked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cud, cut. | |
-2 letters: ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ducat, ducts, dutch, educt. | |
+2 letters: abduct, adduct, chuted, deduct, dictum, ducats, ductal, ducted, dulcet, educts, induct, mudcat, truced, tucked. | |
+3 letters: abducts, adducts, adjunct, caudate, clouted, conduct, conduit, couldst, counted, courted, crudest, crudity, crusted, curated, custard, custody, cutdown, cuttled, daturic, deducts, defunct, dictums, ductile, ducting, ductule, dulcets, dunitic, educate, eductor, eructed, hutched, inducts, midcult, mudcats, mulcted, noctuid, outchid, oviduct, product, scouted, subduct, touched, traduce, trucked, unacted, viaduct, woodcut. | |
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