duct

«duct» in Mova's school dictionary: A pipe or tube that carries air, water, cables or other… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a duct, ducts); verb (duct, ducts, ducted — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pipe or tube that carries air, water, cables or other things inside a building. tree →

2) (body) A tube in the body that carries liquids, like a tear duct. tree →

3) duct tape: very strong sticky cloth tape. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the body, tear ducts carry tears and other ducts carry fluids; in buildings, air ducts carry heating and air conditioning; in films, heroes crawl through air ducts; phrases: «air duct», «tear duct», «duct tape».

examples

• Warm air comes through a duct in the floor. tree →
• Tears drain from your eyes through tiny tear ducts. tree →
• The spy crawled through the air duct. tree →
• Dad fixed the broken hose with duct tape. tree →
• Mice were living in the heating duct. tree →
• Engineers cleaned the ducts in the school roof. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced «dukt». «Duct tape» is also called «duck tape» informally (and Duck Tape is a brand). Safety: real air ducts are dangerous to crawl in.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «duct» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.