noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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dŭkt
/dʌkt/
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rhymes with -ʌkt
homophone: ducked
CMU ARPABET:D AH1 K T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
heating and air-conditioning ducts
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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3
noun
Meaning 3
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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4
noun
Meaning 4
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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5
noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plant part, plant structure
Narrower terms: laticifer
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
شَأن
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Arabic:
مَجْرى
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Armenian:
ծորան
(coran)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Armenian:
խողովակ
(xoġovak)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Bulgarian:
кана́л
(kanál)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Bulgarian:
тръба́
(trǎbá)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Catalan:
conducte
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Chinese Mandarin:
管
(guǎn)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Chinese Mandarin:
管子
(guǎnzi)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Chinese Mandarin:
導管 /导管
(dǎoguǎn)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Danish:
kanal
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Dutch:
buis
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Dutch:
leiding
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Finnish:
kanava
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Finnish:
putki
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
French:
tuyau
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
French:
conduit
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
French:
canalisation
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Galician:
cano
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
German:
Leitung
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
German:
Rohr
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Ancient Greek:
ὀχετός
(okhetós)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Hebrew:
צִנּוֹר
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Hebrew:
תְּעָלָה
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Hebrew:
מוֹבָל
(movál)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Hungarian:
cső
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Hungarian:
vezeték
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Hungarian:
csatorna
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Irish:
ducht
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Italian:
condotto
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Japanese:
ダクト
(dakuto)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Japanese:
導管
(dōkan)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Korean:
덕트
(deokteu)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Latin:
canālis
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Māori:
pū
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Norwegian Bokmål:
kanal
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Norwegian Nynorsk:
kanal
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Persian:
مجرا
(mejrâ)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Persian:
گذر
(gozar)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Persian:
راه
(râh)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Persian:
لوله
(lule)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Portuguese:
duto
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Portuguese:
tubo
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Russian:
кана́л
(kanál)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Russian:
труба́
(trubá)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Russian:
прото́к
(protók)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Russian:
воздухово́д
(vozduxovód)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Spanish:
conducto
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Tagalog:
anuran
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
Ottoman Turkish:
ماسوره
(masura, masra)
— pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another
