Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An often enclosed passage or channel for conveying a substance, especially a liquid or gas.
- noun Anatomy A tubular bodily canal or passage, especially one for carrying a glandular secretion.
- noun A tube or pipe for enclosing electrical cables or wires.
- transitive verb To channel through a duct.
- transitive verb To supply with ducts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw: said of muscles which abduct, adduct, or circumduct a part, such as the leg or the eye.
- noun Leading; guidance; direction; bearing.
- noun Any tube or canal by which a fluid is conducted or conveyed.
- noun In bot.:
- noun A long continuous vessel or canal, formed by a row of cells which have lost their intervening partitions. The walls are variously marked by pits and by spiral, annular, or reticulated thickenings, and the cavity may be filled with air or water, or they may be lactiferous.
- noun In bryology, the narrow continuous cells which surround the utricles in the leaves of Sphagnum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- noun (Anat.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
- noun (Bot.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
- noun obsolete Guidance; direction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another.
- noun An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs.
- noun obsolete Guidance; direction.
- verb To
channel something through a duct (or series of ducts)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- noun an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- noun a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The duct of the seminal vesicle joins the _vas deferens_ of the same side (both functionally and embryologically the seminal vesicle is no more than a diverticulum of the vas deferens); passing on under the name of the _common seminal_ or _ejaculatory duct_, the canal opens into the prostatic portion of the urethra (the orifices of the two common seminal ducts are in the folds of mucous membrane forming the right and left lateral margins of the _prostatic utricle_ or _uterus masculinus_).
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Or rulers with a rubber band ball wrapped in duct-tape and used as a crappy maces.
Think Progress » Beck: The Census Is The Government’s Attempt To ‘Increase Slavery’ 2010
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For example, recently the New York State Forensic Science Commission was asked to accredit a unit of a police lab in duct tape comparison.
Linda Kenney Baden: Conviction: Unvalidated Science in the Courtroom Linda Kenney Baden 2010
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However, if your common bile duct is obstructed then your stool may lose color or become what is called "acholic".
Boing Boing 2009
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Cox said the most recent reported pirate sighting had been Aug. 31, when boaters saw gunmen riding a small skiff with "Game Wardin" misspelled in duct tape on the side of the vessel.
Falcon Lake Search Continues For Man Shot On U.S.-Mexico Border AP 2010
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However, if your common bile duct is obstructed then your stool may lose color or become what is called "acholic".
Boing Boing 2009
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For example, recently the New York State Forensic Science Commission was asked to accredit a unit of a police lab in duct tape comparison.
Linda Kenney Baden: Conviction: Unvalidated Science in the Courtroom Linda Kenney Baden 2010
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However, if your common bile duct is obstructed then your stool may lose color or become what is called "acholic".
Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing 2009
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Just like the Palestinian charity organizer who "killed" himself by wrapping himself in duct tape and drowning.
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In another incident that month, interrogators wrapped a bearded prisoner's head in duct tape "because he would not stop quoting the Koran,"
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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