Duct Words: “abduce” to “conduit”,
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Vocabulary words that include: duc-, -duce, -duct, -ducent, -ductor, -duction, -ductive, -ducer, -ducement, -ducation (Latin: lead, leading, bring, take, draw).
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abduce:
1. To lead or draw away by act or persuasion; to abduct.
2. To draw away, as by an abducent or abductor muscle.
abducent:
wing away or out. Used chiefly in anatomy, as the opposite of adducent.
abduct:
1. To lead or take away improperly, whether by force or fraud; to carry off, to kidnap. Applied especially to the illegal carrying off of a woman or child.
2. To pull something, e.g., a muscle, away from the midpoint or midline of the body or of a limb.
abductee:
A person who has been abducted.
abduction:
1. A leading away.
2. The act of illegally carrying off or leading away anyone, such as a wife, child, ward, voter. Applied to any leading away of a minor under the age of sixteen, without the consent of the parent or guardian; and the forcible carrying off of any one above that age.
abductor:
Someone who abducts or illegally leads away.
adduce:
To bring forward (verbally) for consideration, to cite, to allege.
adducent:
Bringing or drawing towards a given point or common center; attribute of the muscles, called adductors. Opposed to abducent.
adduct:
To draw towards a common center or median line.
adduction:
The action of adducing or bringing forward facts or statements.
adductor:
A muscle that draws any limb, or part of the body, towards the trunk or main axis, or which folds or closes extended parts of the body.
aqueduct:
1. An artificial channel for the conveyance of water from place to place; a conduit; especially, an elevated structure of masonry used for this purpose.
2. The similar structure by which a canal is carried over a river, etc.
3. In physiology, a name given to several small canals, chiefly in the head of mammals.
caliduct, caleduct:
A duct or pipe for the conveyance of heat by means of steam, hot water, or air.
caloriduct:
A tube or channel for conducting heat.
circumduct:
1. In a general sense, to lead or convey around or about.
2. To carry or move around an axis.
circumduction:
The action of leading around or about; a roundabout or circuitous course.
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conduce:
1. To lead or tend towards (a result); to aid in bringing about, contribute to, make for, further, promote, subserve.
conducive:
Having the quality of conducing or tending to (a specified end, purpose, or result); fitted to promote or subserve.
conduct:
1. The action of conducting or leading; guidance, leading.
2. Provision for guidance or conveyance; a company of attendants appointed to conduct a person safely on a journey; an escort, a convoy; a document granted to ensure safe passage; especially in “safe conduct“.
3. As a verb, the action or manner of conducting, directing, managing, or carrying on (any business, performance, process, course, etc.); direction, management.
4. The manner of conducting oneself or one’s life; behavior; usually with more or less reference to its moral quality (good or bad).
conduction, conductive:
1. The conducting of liquid through a channel or pipe. Now chiefly applied to natural processes, e.g. the movement of sap in plants.
2. The transmission of heat, electricity, or nerve-force from particle to particle of a substance.
conductivity:
Conductive quality; power of conducting heat, electricity, etc.; especially, with reference to its degree.
conductometer:
An instrument for measuring conductivity.
conductometry:
The study or science of the measurement of conductivity; the process of such measurement.
conductor:
1. A person, etc. who conducts, leads, guides, etc.; one who leads, guides, or escorts; a leader, guide.
2. The director of an orchestra or chorus, who indicates to the performers the rhythm, expression, etc., of the music by motions of a baton or of the hands.
3. An official who has charge of the passengers, collects fares, and generally directs the proceedings, on an omnibus, tram, or a railroad train.
4. Anything that conducts, leads, or guides; a channel by which water, etc. is conducted.
5. A substance having the property of conducting or permitting the passage of heat, electricity, or other form of energy.
6. A device or arrangement (e.g. a wire, rod, or the like) for conducting electricity; that part of a cable, etc., by which the electricity is conducted.
conductus:
A class of musical composition, monophonic or polyphonic, practiced in the 12th and 13th centuries, and not normally based upon Gregorian chant: it was originally associated with the procession in church, and its metrical Latin texts are devotional, moral, or political in content.
conduit:
1. A pipe or channel that carries liquid to or from a place.
2. A pipe or tube that covers and protects electrical cables.
3. Someone or something that conveys information; especially, if in secret.