| 单词 | conduit |
| 释义 | conduit (once / 3751 pages) n 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. WORD FAMILYconduit: conduits USAGE EXAMPLESSunday as he tried to cross Conduit Boulevard in East New York. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The government argues that the 1972 Act is a "conduit" - simply a vehicle by which rights and obligations arrive in UK law. BBC(Dec 03, 2016) If high singing remains a conduit for human truth, the future will always belong to those who reach highest. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) n a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass the computers were connected through a system of conduits Exp|Hypo|Hyper trans-Alaska pipeline an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez aqueduct a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley ductan enclosed conduit for a fluid fluea conduit to carry off smoke millrace, millruna channel for the water current that turns a millwheel penstock, sluice, sluicewayconduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate spill, spillway, wasteweira channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction tube, tubingconduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases waterspouta 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 fuel air duct, air passage, airwaya duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) barrel, gun barrela tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe, blowtubea tube through which darts can be shot by blowing blow tube, blowpipe, blowtubea tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat cannulaa small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubinga tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action cathetera thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open chimneya vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building chimneystackthe part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues cigarette holdera tube that holds a cigarette while it is being smoked coiltubing that is wound in a spiral chromatography 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 bands draintube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material hose, hosepipea flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas inner tubean inflatable rubber tube that fits inside the casing of a pneumatic tire chimney, lamp chimneya glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp mouthpiecethe tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth pea shootera straight narrow tube through which pellets (as dried peas) can be blown at a target pipage, pipe, pipinga long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. pipe, tobacco pipea tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco silencershort tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing siphon, 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 tube speaking tubea tube for conveying the sound of a voice from one room to another stemthe tube of a tobacco pipe stenta slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis drinking straw, strawa thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth test tubeglass tube closed at one end torpedo tubea tube near the waterline of a vessel through which a torpedo is fired venturia 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 area passage a way through or along which someone or something may pass |
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