Conduit
['kɒndjʊɪt;'kɒndɪt] or ['kɑnduɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; 'the computers were connected through a system of conduits'.
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Definition
(n.) A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.
(n.) A structure forming a reservoir for water.
(n.) A narrow passage for private communication.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Channel, canal, duct, passage, pipe.
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Definition
n. a channel or pipe to lead or convey water &c.: a kind of fountain.
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Examples
- The development of an adequate underground conduit proved also most serious. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The fore part of his head was bald; but the hair grew thin and long behind, and every separate lock was a conduit for water. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Fig. 35 is an end view of a street car of the latter type, with the conduit and conductor rails in cross section. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC TROLLEY SYSTEM.] The familiar overhead trolley cars, and the far superior conduit trolley system, represent perhaps the largest use made of electric motors. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- After staying with them half an hour, he asked Elinor to walk with him to Conduit Street, and introduce him to Sir John and Lady Middleton. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- If I had my senses about me I might have called in Conduit Street in my way home, and told them of it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Address: Conduit Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Underground conduits are built, central offices located and cables provided with an eye to the future, and if these plans are carried out important economies are obtained. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In addition to these advantages, the streets would be freed from their burden of trolley wires or conduits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It must not be thought, of course, that these old-time conduits resembled strikingly those of the present day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- However, the Edison conduits once in use, both the public and even the telephone, telegraph and ticker companies acknowledged their feasibility. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Along either side of these conduits, and extending their entire length, lie the cultivated districts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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