duct´like´

duct «duhkt», noun, verb.

–n.

1. a tube, pipe, or channel for carrying liquid, air, sand, grain, or other granular solid: »

The hot air from our furnace reaches the bedrooms by metal heat ducts.

SYNONYM(S): conduit.

2. a single pipe for electric or telephone cables.

3. a tube or canal in the body for carrying a bodily fluid, especially one for a fluid secreted by a gland: »

tear ducts.

4. Botany. one of the tracheae or vessels of the xylem of plants, serving to conduct water and dissolved minerals.

–v.t.

to transmit (a substance) through a duct: »

[He] favors…ducting the air downwards for take-off and channelling it through the normal tailpipe for forward flight (New Scientist).

╂[< Latin ductus, -ūs a leading, command < dūcere to lead]

–duct´like´, adjective.