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duct

noun
/dʌkt/

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.

  1. borrowed from ductus
  2. borrowed from ductus

Definitions

  1. A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.

    • heating and air-conditioning ducts

  2. A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal…

    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.

  3. Guidance, direction.

    • […] 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To enclose in a duct.

    2. To channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through…

      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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Derived

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 · +14 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at duct. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at duct. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at duct

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA