conduit
Other forms: conduits
Instead of complaining about your chores, be grateful for the conduit, or pipe, that brings water to your home. Thanks to it, you don't have to go fetch water from the well whenever your mom wants a cup of coffee.
The noun conduit comes from root words meaning "pipe," and the word retains this definition. For example, a channel between a reservoir and a water treatment plant could be called a conduit. Conduit can also be used in a figurative sense to refer to someone or something that conveys goods, information, or ideas. For instance, a religious leader might be seen as a conduit who brings divine messages to the people.
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a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass“the computers were connected through a system of conduits”types:aqueducta conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valleyductan enclosed conduit for a fluidfluea conduit to carry off smokespill, spillway, wasteweira channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstructiontube, tubingconduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gaseswaterspouta channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof)air-intakea duct that admits air to be mixed with fuelcannulaa small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medicationcapillary, capillary tube, capillary tubinga tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary actioncathetera thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway openchimneya vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a buildingchimneystackthe part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several fluescigarette holdera tube that holds a cigarette while it is being smokedcoiltubing that is wound in a spiralchromatography column, columna vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bandsdraintube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted materialinner tubean inflatable rubber tube that fits inside the casing of a pneumatic tiremouthpiecethe tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouthpea shootera straight narrow tube through which pellets (as dried peas) can be blown at a targetpipage, pipe, pipinga long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.silencershort tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firingsiphon, syphona tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tubespeaking tubea tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to anotherstemthe tube of a tobacco pipestenta slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosistest tubeglass tube closed at one endtorpedo tubea tube near the waterline of a vessel through which a torpedo is firedventuria tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)well point, wellpointa perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding areatype of:passagea way through or along which someone or something may pass
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a means of transmitting or distributing something, such as information
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