Conduit

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=duit

CIDE DICTIONARY

Conduit, n. [F., fr. LL. conductus escort, conduit. See Conduct.].

•  A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.  [1913 Webster]

  "All the conduits of my blood froze up."  [1913 Webster]

  "This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk."  [1913 Webster]
•  A structure forming a reservoir for water.  Oxf. Gloss.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Conduit, n.
1 a channel or pipe for conveying liquids.
2 a a tube or trough for protecting insulated electric wires. b a length or stretch of this.

Etymology

ME f. OF conduit f. med.L conductus conduct n.

THESAURUS

Conduit

access, adit, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, aqueduct, arcade, artery, avenue, canal, channel, cloister, colonnade, communication, connection, corridor, course, covered way, defile, ditch, duct, egress, entrance, exit, ferry, ford, gallery, ingress, inlet, interchange, intersection, junction, lane, opening, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, portico, railroad tunnel, traject, trajet, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, underpass, watercourse, way

ROGET THESAURUS

Conduit

Ingress

N ingress, entrance, entry, introgression, influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption, ingression, penetration, interpenetration, illapse, import, infiltration, immigration, admission, insinuation, insertion, inlet, way in, mouth, door, barway, path, conduit, immigrant, incoming.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

Passage

N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.

Conduit

N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.