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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
duct From the web:
- what duct carries bile to and from the gallbladder
- what ductile means
- what ductility
- what duct empties into the duodenum
- what duct drains bile from the gallbladder
- what duct drains the gallbladder
- what duct is indicated in the figure
- what duct is cut in a cholecystectomy
lagena
English
Etymology
From Latin
Noun
lagena (plural lagenas or lagenae or lagenæ)
- (anatomy) The upper part of the cochlear duct.
- (anatomy) A similar structure, shaped like a flask, that is a hearing organ in some vertebrates.
- (historical) A wine-vase; an amphora.
Derived terms
- lagenar
Anagrams
- Angela, Galena, alnage, anlage, galena
Latin
Alternative forms
- lag?na, lagaena, lagoena, laguna
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (lág?nos, “flask, pitcher”).
Noun
lag?na f (genitive lag?nae); first declension
- large earthenware vessel
- flask, flagon
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- lagula
- lagella
- laguncula
Descendants
- Arabic: ????????? (laj?na) (super-rare)
- English: lagena
- Portuguese: laje, lájea, lajem, laja, lagena
- Swedish: lägel
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) , “lagena”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E.?J. Brill, page 518
- lagena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lagena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- lagena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
lagena From the web:
- what is lagenaria siceraria
- what does lagna mean
- what is lagenaria in tagalog
- what is lagena in vertebrates
- what does the lagena
- what does a lagena do
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