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Type Words
Synonyms canal, channel, epithelial duct
Type of passage, passageway
Has types vertebral canal, sinus venosus sclerae, spinal canal, sylvian aqueduct, tear duct, umbilical, umbilical cord, ureter, urethra, vagina, vas deferens, venous sinus, alimentary canal, alimentary tract, aqueductus cerebri, bile duct, bronchiole, canal of schlemm, canaliculus, canalis cervicis uteri, canalis inguinalis, canalis vertebralis, cartilaginous tube, cerebral aqueduct, cervical canal, common bile duct, digestive tract, digestive tube, ductule, ductulus, ductus deferens, ejaculatory duct, epididymis, gastrointestinal tract, gi tract, haversian canal, hepatic duct, inguinal canal, lachrymal duct, lacrimal duct, lactiferous duct, lymph vessel, lymphatic vessel, nasolacrimal duct, pancreatic duct, pore, salivary duct, schlemm's canal, seminal duct, sinus


the tear duct was obstructed.
Type Words
Type of plant part, plant structure
Has types laticifer
Type Words
Type of conduit
Has types air passage, air-intake, airway, air duct

Examples of duct

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The prototype was made from duct tape and other materials from a hardware store.
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They found that Kasperak's main bile duct had been blocked by internal bleeding.
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Younge handed the women a roll of duct tape and told them to tape each other up.
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Your clothes dryer is connected to an exhaust duct that is open to the outdoors.
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After sealing her mouth with duct tape, he drove her to the woods at Fort Lewis.
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The plane you will fly to bush camp has a windshield held together by duct tape.
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The robbers hit shop owner John Coscia on the head and bound him with duct tape.
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We also figured out thata single AA battery works, too, with a little duct tape.
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Weber's pants and underwear were at his ankles, which were bound with duct tape.
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More examples
  • A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"
  • A continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
  • An enclosed conduit for a fluid
  • In anatomy and physiology, a duct is a circumscribed channel leading from an exocrine gland or organ.
  • Ducts are used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) to deliver and remove air. These needed airflows include, for example, supply air, return air, and exhaust air. Ducts also deliver, most commonly as part of the supply air, ventilation air. ...
  • Industrial exhaust ducts are pipe systems that connect hood to industrial chimney through other components of exhaust systems like fan, collectors etc. ...
  • Ductal is a proprietary pre-mixed ultra-high performance concrete whose physical characteristics exceed those of common concrete used in the construction of buildings. It is manufactured by Lafarge and Bouygues. ...
  • (Ducting) In telecommunication, an atmospheric duct is a horizontal layer in the lower atmosphere in which the vertical refractive index gradients are such that radio signals (and light rays) (a) are guided or ducted, (b) tend to follow the curvature of the Earth, and (c) experience less ...
  • A pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another, as in heating and air-conditioning ducts; To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts)