different between flume vs duct

English

Etymology

From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /flu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

flume (plural flumes)

1. A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
2. An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.

Translations

Verb

flume (third-person singular simple present flumes, present participle fluming, simple past and past participle flumed)

1. (transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.

Old Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flu.me/

Noun

flume m

1. Alternative form of frume

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• flúmen

Etymology

From Old Portuguese flume, frume (“river”), from Latin fl?men (“river”), from fluere (“to flow”).

Cognate with English flume, Italian fiume and Occitan flume.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?flu.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?flu.mi/
• Hyphenation: flu?me

Noun

flume m (plural flumes)

1. (obsolete or poetic) river

   Synonym: rio

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