| NOUN | artifact | conduit | a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass |
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| Sounds | kaa'nduwiht; kaa'ndwiht; kaa'njhuwiht | |
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| Rhymes | acquit ... writ: 187 rhymes with iht... | |
| Meaning | A passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass. | |
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| Example | "the computers were connected through a system of conduits" | |
| Narrower | aqueduct | A conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley |
| duct | An enclosed conduit for a fluid | |
| flue | A conduit to carry off smoke | |
| millrace, millrun | A channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | |
| sluice, sluiceway, penstock | conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | |
| spillway, spill, wasteweir | A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | |
| tube, tubing | conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids / liquids or gases | |
| waterspout | A channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | |
| Broader | passage | A way through or along which someone or something may pass |
| Spanish | canal, conducto, ducto | |
| Catalan | canal, conducte | |
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