Conduit Synonyms and Antonyms

kŏn'do͝o-ĭt, -dĭt

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Synonyms for Conduit

channel
The definition of a channel is a waterway, a means of communication and a specific television or radio frequency.
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cable
Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
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natural passage
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tube
The definition of a tube is a pliable container with a screw cap at one end to keep it closed.
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passage
A road or path
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aqueduct
The definition of an aqueduct is a man-made tube or channel used for transporting water a long distance.
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flume
An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
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sewer
A pipe or drain, usually underground, used to carry off water and waste matter
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conduct
The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
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culvert
The definition of culvert is a tunnel or a drain under a road or a railway that carries a stream or drainage from one side to the other.
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lead-in
The wire leading from an aerial or antenna to a receiver or transmitter
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trough
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
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main
A large pipe or cable providing utility service to a building or area, such as water main or electric main. [from 17th c.]
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pipe
(Computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
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canal
(Anatomy) A tube, duct, or passageway.
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flow area
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lead-out
(Broadcasting) A program, scheduled to follow another.
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spout
The stream of air and water rising from the blowhole of a whale
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gully
A road drain.
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gutter
A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.
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watercourse
A stream of water; river, brook, etc.
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race
(Biology) A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits:
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drain
The definition of a drain is a pipe or channel that lets something run off.
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wire
(Sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
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conductor
A material or an object that conducts heat, electricity, light, or sound. Electrical conductors contain electric charges (usually electrons) that are relatively free to move through the material; a voltage applied across the conductor therefore creates an electric current. Insulators (electrical nonconductors) contain no charges that move when subject to a voltage.
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cloaca
The posterior part of the intestinal tract in various invertebrates.
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Antonyms for Conduit

plug
A plug is defined as the end piece of a cord for an electrical device with prongs that fit into a wall socket.
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Words Related to Conduit

clearing-house
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duct
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Conduit Sentence Examples

  • Here two reservoirs of a combined capacity of 668 million gallons have been constructed, and a conduit some 36 m.

  • The water is brought to the town in a conduit consisting of 233 m.

  • Its name is derived from the "Teat" or conduit which conveyed water from Horningsham, about r m.

  • It may be pointed out here that these expressions are defined by the act, the effect of the definitions being shortly that a drain is a conduit for the drainage of one building or of several within the same curtilage, while a sewer comprises every kind of drain except that which is covered by the definition of a drain as above stated.

  • The design of any piece of catchwork will vary with local conditions, but generally it may be stated that it consists in putting each conduit save the first to the double use of a feeder or distributor and of a drain or collector.

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