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avenue
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æv.??nju?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æv.??n(j)u/
- Hyphenation: av?e?nue
Noun
avenue (plural avenues)
- A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
- A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
- (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
Usage notes
Sometimes used interchangeably with other terms such as street. When distinguished, an avenue is generally broad and tree-lined. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid, notably Manhattan, streets run east-west, while avenues run north-south.
When abbreviated in an address (such as "Malcolm Ave" or "Fisher Av.") a capital "A" is normally used and a full stop (period) only used if "e" is not the last letter of the abbreviation.
In French traditionally used for routes between two places within a city, named for the destination (or formally where it is coming from), as in the archetypal Avenue des Champs-Élysées. This distinction is not observed in US English, where names such as “Fifth Avenue” are common. In British English, 'Avenue' is usually more associated with a tree-lined street and is sometimes named after the species of tree e.g. Acacia Avenue.
Synonyms
- (broad street): drive, boulevard
- (broad street): av., av, ave., ave (abbreviation)
Translations
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av?ny/, [æv??ny]
Noun
avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer)
- avenue
Inflection
References
- “avenue” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av.ny/
Noun
avenue f (plural avenues)
- avenue (broad street, especially bordered with trees)
- (specifically) a radial avenue (an avenue radiating from a central point, especially bordered with trees)
- (dated) avenue (principal walk or approach to a house or other building)
- (figuratively) avenue (means by which something may be accomplished)
Derived terms
- (abbreviation): av., av, ave., ave
Adjective
avenue
- feminine singular of avenu
Further reading
- “avenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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duct
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from d?c? (“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.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?kt
- IPA(key): /d?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Homophone: ducked
Noun
duct (plural ducts)
- a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
- Hyponym: air duct
- an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
- Hyponym: bus duct
- (anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
- Hyponyms: bile duct, cochlear duct, collecting duct, cystic duct, duct of Wirsung, efferent duct, ejaculatory duct, epithelial duct, lacrimal duct, milk duct, Müllerian duct, nasolacrimal duct, pancreatic duct, paramesonephric duct, tear duct, thoracic duct, thyroglossal duct, utriculosaccular duct, Wolffian duct
- (botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
- (physics) 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
- (obsolete) guidance, direction
- 1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion
- […] 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.
- 1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
duct (third-person singular simple present ducts, present participle ducting, simple past and past participle ducted)
- to enclose in a duct
- to channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “duct”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “duct”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin ductus
Noun
duct n (uncountable)
- duct
Declension
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