Duct
noun
A pipe, tube or channel for carrying something such as air, fluid, or wires.
The air conditioning ducts in the building need to be cleaned.
Often appears as...
- air duct
- duct tape
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Technical
noun
A passage in the body for air, liquids, etc.
The tear ducts produce tears to clean and moisten the eyes.
Often appears as...
- tear duct
- bile duct
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Academic
noun
A pipe, tube or channel for carrying something such as air, fluid, or wires.
The air conditioning ducts in the building need to be cleaned.
Often appears as...
- air duct
- duct tape
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A passage in the body for air, liquids, etc.
The tear ducts produce tears to clean and moisten the eyes.
Often appears as...
- tear duct
- bile duct
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Usage
Often used to describe pathways within systems like heating or wiring in construction and engineering.
We need to insulate the heating ducts before winter.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to imply a direct, hidden, or efficient route for something non-physical.
News travels through the company's gossip duct quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Combined Forms
'Duct' can be part of a compound word, indicating a specific use or application.
Duct tape is incredibly versatile and strong.
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Usage
Often used to describe pathways within systems like heating or wiring in construction and engineering.
We need to insulate the heating ducts before winter.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to imply a direct, hidden, or efficient route for something non-physical.
News travels through the company's gossip duct quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Combined Forms
'Duct' can be part of a compound word, indicating a specific use or application.
Duct tape is incredibly versatile and strong.
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Usage
Often used to describe pathways within systems like heating or wiring in construction and engineering.
We need to insulate the heating ducts before winter.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphoric Use
Sometimes used metaphorically to imply a direct, hidden, or efficient route for something non-physical.
News travels through the company's gossip duct quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Combined Forms
'Duct' can be part of a compound word, indicating a specific use or application.
Duct tape is incredibly versatile and strong.
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Which is stronger: Glue...
glues need enough real estate where surfaces touch. If for some reason you wanted to make a chain of bowling balls, duct tape would be better. Engineers weigh similar, if less absurd, factors all the time. Choosing the right glue to withstand the heat inside an engine is a matter of life and death.
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Reel Talk Ep. 4 -...
around yeah basically there's not have duct tape in the world I don't think that would work it wouldn't work and you know sure I bust his balls right that's all good fun but you know what Paul would I just have that same type of personality too I think we'd clash paint a same boat yeah
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Safari Live - Day 322 PIPE...
around your your face they obviously in search of any kind of moisture so sweats liquid around the eyes around the tear ducts up your nose that gets a bit much at times when they do that and what you find is if you accidentally squash one which I'm afraid to say does happen
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Award-winning teen-age...
But I want everyone here to reimagine a world where instead of prescribing steroids, inhalers and medication, the doctor turns to Julie and says, "Why don't you go home and clean out your air filters. Clean out the air ducts in your home, in your workplace, in your school.
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Making the impossible...
world that I play in now is technology but it's technology for the sake of humanity and what that means is how do you take something and crack it open and modify it and zip tie it or duct tape it back together and maybe reprogram it in a way so that it accomplishes a
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Every Detail PIPE Doomsday...
biological attack the US government encouraged citizens to store duct tape and plastic sheeting for sealing windows Jerry devised a method he believes is more reliable this is our sunroom it's the only sunlight in the complete complex so when you get claustrophobic
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First-Time Smuggler PIPE...
come to the room with the suitcase they pulled the packages out of the suitcase they laid them on the bed and sprayed them all with anti dog spray ninety dogs great they turn up the TV to mask the sound of the duct tape they
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The science of milk -...
or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats, and even cats, males can also lactate.
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Deborah Rhodes: A tool...
the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape. To say that we faced high doses of skepticism in those early years is just a huge understatement,
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Ducks Diving for Mussels...
these can only be reached during a brief lull in the currents the ducts must quickly prise the mussels free before the tide starts to turn
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Which is stronger: Glue...
glues need enough real estate where surfaces touch. If for some reason you wanted to make a chain of bowling balls, duct tape would be better. Engineers weigh similar, if less absurd, factors all the time. Choosing the right glue to withstand the heat inside an engine is a matter of life and death.
Video examples
Reel Talk Ep. 4 -...
around yeah basically there's not have duct tape in the world I don't think that would work it wouldn't work and you know sure I bust his balls right that's all good fun but you know what Paul would I just have that same type of personality too I think we'd clash paint a same boat yeah
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Safari Live - Day 322 PIPE...
around your your face they obviously in search of any kind of moisture so sweats liquid around the eyes around the tear ducts up your nose that gets a bit much at times when they do that and what you find is if you accidentally squash one which I'm afraid to say does happen
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Award-winning teen-age...
But I want everyone here to reimagine a world where instead of prescribing steroids, inhalers and medication, the doctor turns to Julie and says, "Why don't you go home and clean out your air filters. Clean out the air ducts in your home, in your workplace, in your school.
Video examples
Making the impossible...
world that I play in now is technology but it's technology for the sake of humanity and what that means is how do you take something and crack it open and modify it and zip tie it or duct tape it back together and maybe reprogram it in a way so that it accomplishes a
Video examples
Every Detail PIPE Doomsday...
biological attack the US government encouraged citizens to store duct tape and plastic sheeting for sealing windows Jerry devised a method he believes is more reliable this is our sunroom it's the only sunlight in the complete complex so when you get claustrophobic
Video examples
First-Time Smuggler PIPE...
come to the room with the suitcase they pulled the packages out of the suitcase they laid them on the bed and sprayed them all with anti dog spray ninety dogs great they turn up the TV to mask the sound of the duct tape they
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The science of milk -...
or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats, and even cats, males can also lactate.
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Deborah Rhodes: A tool...
the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape. To say that we faced high doses of skepticism in those early years is just a huge understatement,
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Ducks Diving for Mussels...
these can only be reached during a brief lull in the currents the ducts must quickly prise the mussels free before the tide starts to turn
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Charles Platt
English Author
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.
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Tim O'Brien
American Author
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
The appendages of the skin are the nails, the hairs, the sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and their ducts. The nails and hairs are peculiar modifications of the epidermis, consisting essentially of the same cellular structure as that membrane.
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Jamie Hyneman
American Entertainer
Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.
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Jinkx Monsoon
American Entertainer
It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.
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Amy Purdy
American Actress
My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.
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Jane Fonda
American Actress
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
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Simone Giertz
Swedish Inventor
I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.
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Grant Imahara
American Celebrity
Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.
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Charles Platt
English Author
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.
Quote examples
Tim O'Brien
American Author
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
The appendages of the skin are the nails, the hairs, the sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and their ducts. The nails and hairs are peculiar modifications of the epidermis, consisting essentially of the same cellular structure as that membrane.
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Jamie Hyneman
American Entertainer
Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.
Quote examples
Jinkx Monsoon
American Entertainer
It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.
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Amy Purdy
American Actress
My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.
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Jane Fonda
American Actress
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
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Christopher Buckley
American Novelist
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
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Simone Giertz
Swedish Inventor
I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.
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Grant Imahara
American Celebrity
Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.
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