conduit
/ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt/
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obsolete/ˈkʌndɪt/
conduit noun: a pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
Noun
conduit (plural conduits)
- A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
- This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.
- A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.
- Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.
- Any pattern, typically composed of still lifes or oscillators, used to transfer an active region to another location without being destroyed or permanently modified in the process.
- A means by which something is transmitted.
- The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.
- Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian
- An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off–balance sheet bank assets.
conduit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
conduit in Hindi
- pipe or channel for conveying water
- पनारा panārā, परनाला parnālā
conduit in Tamil
- குழாய்க் கால்வாய், நீர்மக் குழாய், கடத்தலி, நீர்செல்குழாய், காப்புக் குழல், குழாய்
conduit in Urdu
- آب گزر, نالی, نی, نل, نلوا, تار دان
More languagesFewer languages
- conduit in Malayalam
- കുഴൽ, സംരക്ഷകക്കുഴൽ, ജലവാഹിനിക്കുഴൽ, ഉദകമാർഗ്ഗം
- conduit in Kannada
- ನೀರ ಕೊಳವೆ, ಕಾಲುವೆ
- conduit in Odia
- କଣ୍ଡ୍ଯ଼ୁଟ୍
- conduit in Nepali
- कन्डुइट, कन्डिउइट
Examples of conduit in a sentence
- She had straps fastened across the conduit every six feet.
- The installers attempted to thread the fish tape through the conduit, but were unable to reach around the tight bend in the tube.
- She installed an L-shaped condulet when the conduit reached the ceiling to redirect the wires towards the far corner of the garage.
Forms of conduit
| plural | conduits |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cundite |
Origin of conduit
From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.
Words formed from conduit
Phrases with conduit
Questions about conduit
- What does conduit mean?
- Conduit means a pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
- What is conduit in Hindi?
- Conduit in Hindi is पनारा (panārā), परनाला (parnālā). See Conduit meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is conduit?
- Conduit is a noun.
- How do you pronounce conduit?
- Conduit is pronounced /ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt/.
- What is the plural of conduit?
- The plural of conduit is conduits.
Words near conduit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: conduit (page history and authors); conduit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conduit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conduit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conduit (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); conduit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conduit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conduit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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