duct
noun
1. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- the tear duct was obstructed
Similar word(s): canal, channel
Definition categories: body, passage, passageway
2. a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
Definition categories: plant
3. an enclosed conduit for a fluid
Definition categories: man–made, conduit
Sentences with duct as a noun:
- heating and air-conditioning ducts
- […] 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. — Henry Hammond.
verb
1. To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts)