duct
/dʌkt/
duct noun: a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
Noun
duct (plural ducts)
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- heating and air-conditioning ducts
- The three motors on each bogie are force ventilated from a blower mounted in the adjacent nose-end compartment of the superstructure, the air being led by ducts and flexible bellows connections to the air inlet at the commutator end of the motor.1958 June, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for the Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 394
- 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.
- 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.1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion
Verb
duct (third-person singular simple present ducts, present participle ducting, simple past and past participle ducted)
duct meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
duct in Marathi
- नलिका
duct in Urdu
- ڈکٹ
duct in Bengali
- নালী
duct in Telugu
- డక్ట్
More languagesFewer languages
- duct in Malayalam
- നാളി nāḷi
- duct in Kannada
- ಕೊಳವೆ, ನಾಲೆ, ಕಾಲುವೆ, ನಾಳ
- duct in Nepali
- डक्टमा
- duct in Tagalog
- anuran
- duct in Arabic
- شَأن, مَجْرى
- duct in Persian
- مجرا mejrâ, گذر gozar, راه râh, لوله lule
Examples of duct in a sentence
- I used duct tape to cover the hole in a leaky pipe.
- The government tells us we can protect against a chemical attack by duct taping the windows.
- Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
Forms of duct
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ducts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ducts |
| present participle | ducting |
| past participle | ducted |
| past | ducted |
Origin of duct
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.
Words formed from duct
- 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
- submaxillary duct
- tympanic duct
- urogenital duct
- vanishing bile duct syndrome
- ventiduct
- vestibular duct
- viaduct
- Wharton's duct
- ducted
- ductible
- ducting
- duction
- ductor
- reduct
Phrases with duct
Words that rhyme with duct
Questions about duct
- What does duct mean?
- Duct means a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- What is duct in Marathi?
- Duct in Marathi is नलिका. See Duct meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is duct?
- Duct can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce duct?
- Duct is pronounced /dʌkt/.
- What is the plural of duct?
- The plural of duct is ducts.
Words near duct in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: duct (page history and authors); duct (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); duct (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); duct (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); duct (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); നാളി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); duct (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); duct (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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