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Duct   /dəkt/   Listen
noun
Duct  n.  
1.
Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
2.
(Anat.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
3.
(Bot.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber. Note: Ducts are classified, according to the character of the surface of their walls, or their structure, as annular, spiral, scalariform, etc.
4.
Guidance; direction. (Obs.)





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"Duct" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lids of the buckets in turn. There is fixed to the sides of the generator a funnel (13) with open bottom (13a) to direct the carbide, on to the rocking grid (14) which is farther below the funnel than appears from the figure. Gas passing up behind the funnel escapes through a duct (15) to the gasholder. The ring (7) is rotated through the action of the weight (16) suspended by the chain or rope (17) which passes round the shaft (18), which is supported by the bracket (19) and has a handle for winding up. An escapement, ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
... canal opening into a groove at the apex, terminating on the anterior surface in an elongated fissure. As the canal is straight, and the tooth falciform, a like groove or longitudinal fissure is formed at the base, where it is inclosed by the aperture of the duct that communicates with ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various
... exile' | Rec'ord record' Com'pound compound' | Ex'port export' | Ref'use refuse' Com'press compress' | Ex'tract extract' | Re'tail retail' Con'cert concert' | Fer'ment ferment' | Sub'ject subject' Con'crete concrete' | Fore'cast forecast' | Su'pine supine' Con'duct conduct' | Fore'taste foretaste'| Sur'vey survey' Con fine confine' | Fre'quent frequent' | Tor'ment torment' Con'flict conflict' | Im'part impart' | Tra'ject traject' Con'serve conserve' | Im'port import' ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... of the bird are in the small of the back close to the backbone, and there is a tube called the oviduct or egg-duct, leading from the ovary down to the lower end of the intestine, which it enters. There is no separate opening for the ...
— The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young • Margaret Warner Morley
... Duct{us} in articulu{m} num{erus} si {com}posit{us} sit Articulu{m} puru{m} comites articulu{m} q{u}o{que} Mixti pro digit{is} post fiat [et articulus vt] Norma iubet [retinendo quod extra dicta ab illis] Articuli digitu{m} ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous


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