duct

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ductus, noun use of past participle of dūcō (“I lead, draw”). Compare douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus, a conveyance (of water); hence, a channel; which itself has the first mentioned etymology.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) enPR: dŭkt, IPA^(key): /dʌkt/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ʌkt

Noun

duct (plural ducts)

A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
heating and air-conditioning ducts
An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs.
(obsolete) Guidance; direction.
- Henry Hammond
  […] 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.

Derived terms

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Translations

a pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another

Armenian: ծորան (hy) (coran), խողովակ (hy) (xołovak)
Bulgarian: канал (bg) m (kanál), тръба (bg) f (trǎbá)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 管 (zh) (guǎn), 管子 (zh) (guǎnzi), 導管 (zh), 导管 (zh) (dǎoguǎn)
Danish: kanal (da) c
Dutch: buis (nl) f, leiding (nl) f
Finnish: putki (fi)
French: tuyau (fr) m, conduit (fr) m, canalisation (fr) f
Galician: cano m
German: Leitung (de) f, Rohr (de) n
Irish: ducht m
Italian: condotto (it) m

Japanese: ダクト (dakuto), 導管 (ja) (どうかん, dōkan)
Korean: 덕트 (deokteu)
Latin: canālis (la) m
Maori: pū
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kanal (no) m

Nynorsk: kanal m
Portuguese: duto (pt) m
Russian: кана́л (ru) m (kanál), труба́ (ru) f (trubá), прото́к (ru) m (protók), воздухово́д (ru) m (vozduxovód) (airduct)
Spanish: conducto (es) m
Tagalog: anuran

Verb

duct (third-person singular simple present ducts, present participle ducting, simple past and past participle ducted)

To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts)

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