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say it: duhkt
duct is a noun meaning "a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
“the tear duct was obstructed”
“the alimentary canal”
“poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs”
a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
an enclosed conduit for a fluid
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for duct come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.