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Pipe for fluid — means of access
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conduit
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Conduit is an outdoor 2009–2010 mural by Emily Ginsburg, installed on the University Services Building's exterior on the Portland State University campus in Portland, Oregon , in the United States.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In any case the L.C.C. used the slot conduit system and the Company used overhead wires. ▪ It operates as a conduit for ideas to flow freely throughout an organization. ▪ The corridor inside was a grey conduit for numerous pipes ...
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n. a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, conduyt , from Old French conduit (12c.) "escort, protection; pipe, channel," from Latin conductus "a leading, a pipe" (see conduct ). A doublet of conduct , differentiated in meaning from 15c.
Usage examples of conduit.
The amebic filtration system you installed in the drinking water conduits has kept us all safe.
He went to Ankara several times to salvage something from the strained relationship, setting up a small liaison headquarters in Ankara under Lieutenant General Colby Broadwater, who served as his conduit to the Turkish General Staff.
In the morning, well out to sea, James, acting as his usual conduit of information to the curious, had matters explained as the Bucephalas pitched into the Atlantic rollers.
Every wall of the ship and much of the nominal walls and ceilings were used for gauges, ducts, lockers, bunks, chairs, tanks, conduits.
The dampeners pressed in on the conduit of plasma, narrowing its diameter, narrowing their view of the launch dome that now lay at its other end point.
But the conduit to carry the connections was installed somewhere just inside the south Decoupler disk.
After some searching around, Dyer recognized a gallery that led to the area where the Decoupler computers were situated and near which the branch conduit from the main shaft terminated.
While a certain electrotechnician fussed with conduits fifty feet away, he fussed with the equation.
Adopting much of the symbolic language of Euripidean tragedy, Virgil shows Dido as a conduit for irrational forces that swelled up outside and within the norms of Greek culture.
For Ixil, a starship-engine mechanic, the ferrets were invaluable in dealing with wiring or tubing or anything else involving tight spaces or narrow conduits.
He cut into larger swaths of flooring to reveal the entire length of the monofilament conduit.
The woman, Sadra Rosales, was only a conduit, though perhaps I do her a disservice by this dismissal.
Supposedly, a subthreshold shock can affect the core conduits without causing a direct impulse.
Ham had followed seemingly endless miles of the tunnellike pipe line conduits that honeycombed the vast grounds.
A sewer drilled at the lower end of the shaft conveyed the wastewater to a conduit at the cliff base that ran through the wall of the Capulus to empty into the Acis below the city.