duct
noun/dʌkt/
/dʌkt/
- a pipe or tube carrying liquid, gas, electric or phone wires, etc.
- a heating/ventilation duct
- Air flows through the ventilation ducts.
- They managed to get out of the building by crawling through a ventilation duct.
- a tube in the body or in plants through which liquid passes see also bile duct, tear ductTopics Bodyc2
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘course’ or ‘direction’): from Latin ductus ‘leading, aqueduct’ from duct- ‘led’, from the verb ducere.
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