different between duct vs sewer

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)

1. a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another

   Hyponym: air duct

   1. an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors

      Hyponym: bus duct

   2. (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

   3. (botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
2. (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
3. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

duct (third-person singular simple present ducts, present participle ducting, simple past and past participle ducted)

1. to enclose in a duct
2. 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)

1. duct

Declension

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaqu?ria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aqu?ria (“of or pertaining to waters”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so?o'?, IPA^(key): /?s(j)u??/
• (General American) enPR: so?o?r, IPA^(key): /?su?/
• Homophone: suer
• Rhymes: -u??(?)
• Hyphenation: sew?er

Noun

sewer (plural sewers)

1. A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

Translations

Verb

sewer (third-person singular simple present sewers, present participle sewering, simple past and past participle sewered)

1. (transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

Etymology 2

From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assid?re, present active participle of asside? (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so?o'?, IPA^(key): /?s(j)u??/
• (General American) enPR: so?o?r, IPA^(key): /?su?/
• Hyphenation: sew?er

Noun

sewer (plural sewers)

1. (now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 287:

     His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

Etymology 3

sew +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?'?, IPA^(key): /?s???/
• (US) enPR: s?'?r, IPA^(key): /?so??/
• Homophone: sower
• Rhymes: -???(r)
• Hyphenation: sew?er

Noun

sewer (plural sewers)

1. One who sews.
2. A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

Synonyms

• (one who sews): sempster/sempstress (man/woman), seamster/seamstress (man/woman), tailor

Translations

Anagrams

• Ewers, Weser, ewers, re-sew, resew, sweer, weres

Middle English

Verb

sewer

1. Alternative form of suren