Definition of conduit in English:

conduit

noun ˈkɒndjʊɪtˈkɒndɪtˈkɑnˌd(j)uət

1A channel for conveying water or other fluid.
nearby springs supplied the conduit which ran into the brewery
Example sentencesExamples
- This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits.
- My plan is to seal it off with its own security system and then have somebody cut the water conduits.
- Roads, railways, water supply conduits, power and communication lines, towns and cities were built to a high technical standard.
- The arteries and veins are not merely conduits designed to convey blood passively to and from the capillaries.
- In this case, the floor drain provided a conduit to the storm water sewer and a nearby creek or drain.
- These conduits permit the transfer of information both to and from the nucleus, and are vital to proper cell function.
- These karst cavities form as conduits for water flow between input and output points.
- The researchers showed that actin filaments and microtubules, structural elements that traverse cells like the ribs of an umbrella, could function as conduits for the spread of biochemical signals.
- In the city, 19 waterways currently serve as conduits for domestic waste water, and the quantity of phosphorus in Guangzhou's Pearl River has reached 1.4 times the standard amount.
- Over the centuries, monks and feudal retainers applied their skills to enlarging the earthen dam and installing wood or stone conduits to carry water to neighbouring fields.
- In higher plants tracheary elements are the main conduits for water transport from roots to leaves.
- When a bridge or water supply conduit has exceeded its carrying capacity for vehicles or flow, the system either breaks or malfunctions.
- Constantinople was also crossed by water conduits that strode over valleys like giant bridges.
- Embedded in the walls that led to the train platform lay ancient gravesites and water conduits discovered during the construction of the station.
- A cave is a natural cavity in bedrock which acts as a conduit for water flow between input points, such as sinking streams or soil percolation water, and output points, such as springs or seepages.
- In scenes dating from the New Kingdom, must flows from the trough along a small conduit into a receptacle.
- It is believed that run-off containing animal wastes entered water conduits from nearby farms.
- They consist of a single piece of hardened steel, and their hydraulic fluid conduits are contained in the jacks' interiors, allowing for safer, more efficient operation.
- The patent is concerned with a process and equipment for laying pipes and other conduits in deep water.
- In the conduit where the crust cracked, the magma crystallizes and forms a dike.
Synonyms
channel, trench, ditch, gully, drain, culvert, cut, flume, gutter, furrow, groove, depression
1. 1.1 A person or organization that acts as a channel for the transmission of something.
  as an actor you have to be a conduit for other people's words
  Example sentencesExamples
  At common law the agent recipient is regarded as a mere conduit for the money, which is treated as paid to the principal, not to the agent.
  So yes, if you're worried about hurting the party as a conduit for soft money, maybe you need to worry about this, but not as an old - fashioned political party.
  The spectacular advance of AIDS resulted from a virus given new routes of entry: widespread increases in certain lifestyle practices provided a conduit for efficient transmission.
  He or she keeps the sponsor and other senior managers informed of progress and acts as the main conduit between the organization and the change programme.
  Microsoft issued a workaround today to guard against a serious vulnerability in Internet Explorer which created a way for hackers to turn popular websites into conduits for viral transmission.
  But Roger, they may just keep doing this until you do something like that; they may just think this is such an easy conduit that we'll keep going until otherwise.
  State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole.
  They do not enlighten but are used as conduits for making money by religious organizations.
  Despite the industry's rhetoric… companies really want to use children as conduits to their parent's wallets.
  These co-conspirators were conduits for money and also provided needed skills and knowledge.
  The small travel agency he owned soon became a major conduit for BAE's money, channelling over £7m a year.
  Lawrence was a living conduit, an electrical force whose existence took the form of a man.
  Fifth, the need to find ways of injecting laundered money into a financial system means that some legitimate and unsuspecting businesses may be used as conduits for the money.
  By its definition, money laundering is a conduit for trading criminal money.
  ‘They're not content to simply be conduits anymore,’ says Mike Miron, CEO of ContentGuard.
  Corporations, professional associations, political parties and other issue groups organize and run conduits.
  What is likely to happen with a ban on soft money, Representative Davis told the New York Times, is that political parties will set up unofficial parallel organizations to serve as conduits for the campaign funds.
  The cash was again passed through a known conduit for terror organisations.
  Until there is a genuine change in government, agencies such as this charity are the safest conduit for aid money.
  Some cable operators own content, but operators, generally speaking, are conduits for content.
2A tube or trough for protecting electric wiring.
the gas pipe should not be close to any electrical conduit
mass noun the cable must be protected by conduit
Example sentencesExamples
- The flexible conduit really helps to tidy the wiring and also has the added bonus of accentuating the overall ‘industrial’ look of the project.
- We used a 58-inch piece of electrical conduit and sharpened the end of it like a vaccination needle.
- Your cable should be protected in a conduit, a plastic tube for electrical wires, so you won't dig into it accidentally.
- Some of the additions are invisible, such as the minilab in a former coat closet and the metal conduit tubing placed over electrical wires to meet code requirements.
- I note the invoice refers to running a low voltage wire through a conduit pipe, hooking up the units, and then checking the operation of the machinery.
- Kenneth also suggests trying thin-wall electrical conduit for the same purpose.
- Because the wires are between thirty and forty years old and buried without any conduit to protect them from the elements, he judged the job to be too dangerous.
- Hmm, as this thing dried the air by removing moisture, more would just pour in from the ultra-humid outside through scores of tiny openings, from electrical wiring conduits to mouse holes.
- Its telecommunications and electronics group produces electrical connectors, conduits, printed circuit boards, and undersea fiber-optic cable.
- Inside the starships, the smells of burning fur and burning flesh mix with the smells of burning conduits and charred circuit boards.
- The air bag assembly further includes a gas conduit which provides a gas path for transferring the gas from the inflator to the air bag cushion.
- Elevated guideways look sleek in computer renderings, but are less elegant, with thickened columns, electric conduits and emergency walkways.
- A subsequent glance revealed Matthew McCaslin's trademark meandering networks of electrical conduits, wires, cables, monitors and video players.
- Space on ships is such a precious commodity - crammed behind every panel are conduits, ducts, pipes, cables - that protecting open space can feel as formidable as holding back the sea.
- And then there's the cable pipe itself, a conduit to which creative cable subscribers can attribute all kinds of mischief.
- Taking a quick look around she smiled; the shaped charge had taken out lockers and some electrical conduits, but nothing major.
- If layers of phosphorus impregnated silicon and boron-impregnated silicon are joined together with metal leads or conduits, an electrical potential can be created with some help from light.
- Lancing right through layers of armor, electronics and conduits they stabbed into the engine room, slicing into the fusion bottles that powered the great vessel.
- The researchers mounted the bundle between metal electrodes inside a glass conduit and then measured the voltage generated as various liquids flowed over the bundle.
- White turned the light switch off, there was a severe electrical arc from the conduit, immediately followed by sparks and flames.
Synonyms
channel, duct, pipe, tube, gutter, groove, furrow, trough, trench, culvert, cut, sluice, spillway, race, flume, chute, ditch, drain

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin conductus, from Latin conducere 'bring together' (see conduct).

Definition of conduit in US English:

conduit

nounˈkänˌd(y)o͞oətˈkɑnˌd(j)uət

1A channel for conveying water or other fluid.
a conduit for conveying water to the power plant
Example sentencesExamples
- My plan is to seal it off with its own security system and then have somebody cut the water conduits.
- This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits.
- In scenes dating from the New Kingdom, must flows from the trough along a small conduit into a receptacle.
- In the city, 19 waterways currently serve as conduits for domestic waste water, and the quantity of phosphorus in Guangzhou's Pearl River has reached 1.4 times the standard amount.
- When a bridge or water supply conduit has exceeded its carrying capacity for vehicles or flow, the system either breaks or malfunctions.
- A cave is a natural cavity in bedrock which acts as a conduit for water flow between input points, such as sinking streams or soil percolation water, and output points, such as springs or seepages.
- They consist of a single piece of hardened steel, and their hydraulic fluid conduits are contained in the jacks' interiors, allowing for safer, more efficient operation.
- The researchers showed that actin filaments and microtubules, structural elements that traverse cells like the ribs of an umbrella, could function as conduits for the spread of biochemical signals.
- These karst cavities form as conduits for water flow between input and output points.
- In this case, the floor drain provided a conduit to the storm water sewer and a nearby creek or drain.
- These conduits permit the transfer of information both to and from the nucleus, and are vital to proper cell function.
- The patent is concerned with a process and equipment for laying pipes and other conduits in deep water.
- It is believed that run-off containing animal wastes entered water conduits from nearby farms.
- Constantinople was also crossed by water conduits that strode over valleys like giant bridges.
- Embedded in the walls that led to the train platform lay ancient gravesites and water conduits discovered during the construction of the station.
- In higher plants tracheary elements are the main conduits for water transport from roots to leaves.
- Over the centuries, monks and feudal retainers applied their skills to enlarging the earthen dam and installing wood or stone conduits to carry water to neighbouring fields.
- Roads, railways, water supply conduits, power and communication lines, towns and cities were built to a high technical standard.
- The arteries and veins are not merely conduits designed to convey blood passively to and from the capillaries.
- In the conduit where the crust cracked, the magma crystallizes and forms a dike.
Synonyms
channel, trench, ditch, gully, drain, culvert, cut, flume, gutter, furrow, groove, depression
1. 1.1 A person or organization that acts as a channel for the transmission of something.
  the office acts as a conduit for ideas to flow throughout the organization
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some cable operators own content, but operators, generally speaking, are conduits for content.
  Microsoft issued a workaround today to guard against a serious vulnerability in Internet Explorer which created a way for hackers to turn popular websites into conduits for viral transmission.
  What is likely to happen with a ban on soft money, Representative Davis told the New York Times, is that political parties will set up unofficial parallel organizations to serve as conduits for the campaign funds.
  So yes, if you're worried about hurting the party as a conduit for soft money, maybe you need to worry about this, but not as an old - fashioned political party.
  The cash was again passed through a known conduit for terror organisations.
  Despite the industry's rhetoric… companies really want to use children as conduits to their parent's wallets.
  The small travel agency he owned soon became a major conduit for BAE's money, channelling over £7m a year.
  They do not enlighten but are used as conduits for making money by religious organizations.
  Lawrence was a living conduit, an electrical force whose existence took the form of a man.
  Corporations, professional associations, political parties and other issue groups organize and run conduits.
  ‘They're not content to simply be conduits anymore,’ says Mike Miron, CEO of ContentGuard.
  Fifth, the need to find ways of injecting laundered money into a financial system means that some legitimate and unsuspecting businesses may be used as conduits for the money.
  But Roger, they may just keep doing this until you do something like that; they may just think this is such an easy conduit that we'll keep going until otherwise.
  He or she keeps the sponsor and other senior managers informed of progress and acts as the main conduit between the organization and the change programme.
  By its definition, money laundering is a conduit for trading criminal money.
  At common law the agent recipient is regarded as a mere conduit for the money, which is treated as paid to the principal, not to the agent.
  State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole.
  These co-conspirators were conduits for money and also provided needed skills and knowledge.
  The spectacular advance of AIDS resulted from a virus given new routes of entry: widespread increases in certain lifestyle practices provided a conduit for efficient transmission.
  Until there is a genuine change in government, agencies such as this charity are the safest conduit for aid money.
2A tube or trough for protecting electric wiring.
the gas pipe should not be close to any electrical conduit
Example sentencesExamples
- The flexible conduit really helps to tidy the wiring and also has the added bonus of accentuating the overall ‘industrial’ look of the project.
- White turned the light switch off, there was a severe electrical arc from the conduit, immediately followed by sparks and flames.
- And then there's the cable pipe itself, a conduit to which creative cable subscribers can attribute all kinds of mischief.
- Your cable should be protected in a conduit, a plastic tube for electrical wires, so you won't dig into it accidentally.
- I note the invoice refers to running a low voltage wire through a conduit pipe, hooking up the units, and then checking the operation of the machinery.
- Taking a quick look around she smiled; the shaped charge had taken out lockers and some electrical conduits, but nothing major.
- Its telecommunications and electronics group produces electrical connectors, conduits, printed circuit boards, and undersea fiber-optic cable.
- We used a 58-inch piece of electrical conduit and sharpened the end of it like a vaccination needle.
- Some of the additions are invisible, such as the minilab in a former coat closet and the metal conduit tubing placed over electrical wires to meet code requirements.
- Because the wires are between thirty and forty years old and buried without any conduit to protect them from the elements, he judged the job to be too dangerous.
- Inside the starships, the smells of burning fur and burning flesh mix with the smells of burning conduits and charred circuit boards.
- Lancing right through layers of armor, electronics and conduits they stabbed into the engine room, slicing into the fusion bottles that powered the great vessel.
- The researchers mounted the bundle between metal electrodes inside a glass conduit and then measured the voltage generated as various liquids flowed over the bundle.
- Elevated guideways look sleek in computer renderings, but are less elegant, with thickened columns, electric conduits and emergency walkways.
- Space on ships is such a precious commodity - crammed behind every panel are conduits, ducts, pipes, cables - that protecting open space can feel as formidable as holding back the sea.
- A subsequent glance revealed Matthew McCaslin's trademark meandering networks of electrical conduits, wires, cables, monitors and video players.
- The air bag assembly further includes a gas conduit which provides a gas path for transferring the gas from the inflator to the air bag cushion.
- Kenneth also suggests trying thin-wall electrical conduit for the same purpose.
- Hmm, as this thing dried the air by removing moisture, more would just pour in from the ultra-humid outside through scores of tiny openings, from electrical wiring conduits to mouse holes.
- If layers of phosphorus impregnated silicon and boron-impregnated silicon are joined together with metal leads or conduits, an electrical potential can be created with some help from light.
Synonyms
channel, duct, pipe, tube, gutter, groove, furrow, trough, trench, culvert, cut, sluice, spillway, race, flume, chute, ditch, drain

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin conductus, from Latin conducere ‘bring together’ (see conduct).

单词	conduit
释义	Definition of conduit in English: conduit noun ˈkɒndjʊɪtˈkɒndɪtˈkɑnˌd(j)uət 1A channel for conveying water or other fluid. nearby springs supplied the conduit which ran into the brewery Example sentencesExamples This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits. My plan is to seal it off with its own security system and then have somebody cut the water conduits. Roads, railways, water supply conduits, power and communication lines, towns and cities were built to a high technical standard. The arteries and veins are not merely conduits designed to convey blood passively to and from the capillaries. In this case, the floor drain provided a conduit to the storm water sewer and a nearby creek or drain. These conduits permit the transfer of information both to and from the nucleus, and are vital to proper cell function. These karst cavities form as conduits for water flow between input and output points. The researchers showed that actin filaments and microtubules, structural elements that traverse cells like the ribs of an umbrella, could function as conduits for the spread of biochemical signals. In the city, 19 waterways currently serve as conduits for domestic waste water, and the quantity of phosphorus in Guangzhou's Pearl River has reached 1.4 times the standard amount. Over the centuries, monks and feudal retainers applied their skills to enlarging the earthen dam and installing wood or stone conduits to carry water to neighbouring fields. In higher plants tracheary elements are the main conduits for water transport from roots to leaves. When a bridge or water supply conduit has exceeded its carrying capacity for vehicles or flow, the system either breaks or malfunctions. Constantinople was also crossed by water conduits that strode over valleys like giant bridges. Embedded in the walls that led to the train platform lay ancient gravesites and water conduits discovered during the construction of the station. A cave is a natural cavity in bedrock which acts as a conduit for water flow between input points, such as sinking streams or soil percolation water, and output points, such as springs or seepages. In scenes dating from the New Kingdom, must flows from the trough along a small conduit into a receptacle. It is believed that run-off containing animal wastes entered water conduits from nearby farms. They consist of a single piece of hardened steel, and their hydraulic fluid conduits are contained in the jacks' interiors, allowing for safer, more efficient operation. The patent is concerned with a process and equipment for laying pipes and other conduits in deep water. In the conduit where the crust cracked, the magma crystallizes and forms a dike. Synonyms channel, trench, ditch, gully, drain, culvert, cut, flume, gutter, furrow, groove, depression 1.1 A person or organization that acts as a channel for the transmission of something. as an actor you have to be a conduit for other people's words Example sentencesExamples At common law the agent recipient is regarded as a mere conduit for the money, which is treated as paid to the principal, not to the agent. So yes, if you're worried about hurting the party as a conduit for soft money, maybe you need to worry about this, but not as an old - fashioned political party. The spectacular advance of AIDS resulted from a virus given new routes of entry: widespread increases in certain lifestyle practices provided a conduit for efficient transmission. He or she keeps the sponsor and other senior managers informed of progress and acts as the main conduit between the organization and the change programme. Microsoft issued a workaround today to guard against a serious vulnerability in Internet Explorer which created a way for hackers to turn popular websites into conduits for viral transmission. But Roger, they may just keep doing this until you do something like that; they may just think this is such an easy conduit that we'll keep going until otherwise. State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole. They do not enlighten but are used as conduits for making money by religious organizations. Despite the industry's rhetoric… companies really want to use children as conduits to their parent's wallets. These co-conspirators were conduits for money and also provided needed skills and knowledge. The small travel agency he owned soon became a major conduit for BAE's money, channelling over £7m a year. Lawrence was a living conduit, an electrical force whose existence took the form of a man. Fifth, the need to find ways of injecting laundered money into a financial system means that some legitimate and unsuspecting businesses may be used as conduits for the money. By its definition, money laundering is a conduit for trading criminal money. ‘They're not content to simply be conduits anymore,’ says Mike Miron, CEO of ContentGuard. Corporations, professional associations, political parties and other issue groups organize and run conduits. What is likely to happen with a ban on soft money, Representative Davis told the New York Times, is that political parties will set up unofficial parallel organizations to serve as conduits for the campaign funds. The cash was again passed through a known conduit for terror organisations. Until there is a genuine change in government, agencies such as this charity are the safest conduit for aid money. Some cable operators own content, but operators, generally speaking, are conduits for content. 2A tube or trough for protecting electric wiring. the gas pipe should not be close to any electrical conduit mass noun the cable must be protected by conduit Example sentencesExamples The flexible conduit really helps to tidy the wiring and also has the added bonus of accentuating the overall ‘industrial’ look of the project. We used a 58-inch piece of electrical conduit and sharpened the end of it like a vaccination needle. Your cable should be protected in a conduit, a plastic tube for electrical wires, so you won't dig into it accidentally. Some of the additions are invisible, such as the minilab in a former coat closet and the metal conduit tubing placed over electrical wires to meet code requirements. I note the invoice refers to running a low voltage wire through a conduit pipe, hooking up the units, and then checking the operation of the machinery. Kenneth also suggests trying thin-wall electrical conduit for the same purpose. Because the wires are between thirty and forty years old and buried without any conduit to protect them from the elements, he judged the job to be too dangerous. Hmm, as this thing dried the air by removing moisture, more would just pour in from the ultra-humid outside through scores of tiny openings, from electrical wiring conduits to mouse holes. Its telecommunications and electronics group produces electrical connectors, conduits, printed circuit boards, and undersea fiber-optic cable. Inside the starships, the smells of burning fur and burning flesh mix with the smells of burning conduits and charred circuit boards. The air bag assembly further includes a gas conduit which provides a gas path for transferring the gas from the inflator to the air bag cushion. Elevated guideways look sleek in computer renderings, but are less elegant, with thickened columns, electric conduits and emergency walkways. A subsequent glance revealed Matthew McCaslin's trademark meandering networks of electrical conduits, wires, cables, monitors and video players. Space on ships is such a precious commodity - crammed behind every panel are conduits, ducts, pipes, cables - that protecting open space can feel as formidable as holding back the sea. And then there's the cable pipe itself, a conduit to which creative cable subscribers can attribute all kinds of mischief. Taking a quick look around she smiled; the shaped charge had taken out lockers and some electrical conduits, but nothing major. If layers of phosphorus impregnated silicon and boron-impregnated silicon are joined together with metal leads or conduits, an electrical potential can be created with some help from light. Lancing right through layers of armor, electronics and conduits they stabbed into the engine room, slicing into the fusion bottles that powered the great vessel. The researchers mounted the bundle between metal electrodes inside a glass conduit and then measured the voltage generated as various liquids flowed over the bundle. White turned the light switch off, there was a severe electrical arc from the conduit, immediately followed by sparks and flames. Synonyms channel, duct, pipe, tube, gutter, groove, furrow, trough, trench, culvert, cut, sluice, spillway, race, flume, chute, ditch, drain Origin Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin conductus, from Latin conducere 'bring together' (see conduct). Definition of conduit in US English: conduit nounˈkänˌd(y)o͞oətˈkɑnˌd(j)uət 1A channel for conveying water or other fluid. a conduit for conveying water to the power plant Example sentencesExamples My plan is to seal it off with its own security system and then have somebody cut the water conduits. This causes problems around culverts, overflow pipes, and other water conduits. In scenes dating from the New Kingdom, must flows from the trough along a small conduit into a receptacle. In the city, 19 waterways currently serve as conduits for domestic waste water, and the quantity of phosphorus in Guangzhou's Pearl River has reached 1.4 times the standard amount. When a bridge or water supply conduit has exceeded its carrying capacity for vehicles or flow, the system either breaks or malfunctions. A cave is a natural cavity in bedrock which acts as a conduit for water flow between input points, such as sinking streams or soil percolation water, and output points, such as springs or seepages. They consist of a single piece of hardened steel, and their hydraulic fluid conduits are contained in the jacks' interiors, allowing for safer, more efficient operation. The researchers showed that actin filaments and microtubules, structural elements that traverse cells like the ribs of an umbrella, could function as conduits for the spread of biochemical signals. These karst cavities form as conduits for water flow between input and output points. In this case, the floor drain provided a conduit to the storm water sewer and a nearby creek or drain. These conduits permit the transfer of information both to and from the nucleus, and are vital to proper cell function. The patent is concerned with a process and equipment for laying pipes and other conduits in deep water. It is believed that run-off containing animal wastes entered water conduits from nearby farms. Constantinople was also crossed by water conduits that strode over valleys like giant bridges. Embedded in the walls that led to the train platform lay ancient gravesites and water conduits discovered during the construction of the station. In higher plants tracheary elements are the main conduits for water transport from roots to leaves. Over the centuries, monks and feudal retainers applied their skills to enlarging the earthen dam and installing wood or stone conduits to carry water to neighbouring fields. Roads, railways, water supply conduits, power and communication lines, towns and cities were built to a high technical standard. The arteries and veins are not merely conduits designed to convey blood passively to and from the capillaries. In the conduit where the crust cracked, the magma crystallizes and forms a dike. Synonyms channel, trench, ditch, gully, drain, culvert, cut, flume, gutter, furrow, groove, depression 1.1 A person or organization that acts as a channel for the transmission of something. the office acts as a conduit for ideas to flow throughout the organization Example sentencesExamples Some cable operators own content, but operators, generally speaking, are conduits for content. Microsoft issued a workaround today to guard against a serious vulnerability in Internet Explorer which created a way for hackers to turn popular websites into conduits for viral transmission. What is likely to happen with a ban on soft money, Representative Davis told the New York Times, is that political parties will set up unofficial parallel organizations to serve as conduits for the campaign funds. So yes, if you're worried about hurting the party as a conduit for soft money, maybe you need to worry about this, but not as an old - fashioned political party. The cash was again passed through a known conduit for terror organisations. Despite the industry's rhetoric… companies really want to use children as conduits to their parent's wallets. The small travel agency he owned soon became a major conduit for BAE's money, channelling over £7m a year. They do not enlighten but are used as conduits for making money by religious organizations. Lawrence was a living conduit, an electrical force whose existence took the form of a man. Corporations, professional associations, political parties and other issue groups organize and run conduits. ‘They're not content to simply be conduits anymore,’ says Mike Miron, CEO of ContentGuard. Fifth, the need to find ways of injecting laundered money into a financial system means that some legitimate and unsuspecting businesses may be used as conduits for the money. But Roger, they may just keep doing this until you do something like that; they may just think this is such an easy conduit that we'll keep going until otherwise. He or she keeps the sponsor and other senior managers informed of progress and acts as the main conduit between the organization and the change programme. By its definition, money laundering is a conduit for trading criminal money. At common law the agent recipient is regarded as a mere conduit for the money, which is treated as paid to the principal, not to the agent. State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole. These co-conspirators were conduits for money and also provided needed skills and knowledge. The spectacular advance of AIDS resulted from a virus given new routes of entry: widespread increases in certain lifestyle practices provided a conduit for efficient transmission. Until there is a genuine change in government, agencies such as this charity are the safest conduit for aid money. 2A tube or trough for protecting electric wiring. the gas pipe should not be close to any electrical conduit Example sentencesExamples The flexible conduit really helps to tidy the wiring and also has the added bonus of accentuating the overall ‘industrial’ look of the project. White turned the light switch off, there was a severe electrical arc from the conduit, immediately followed by sparks and flames. And then there's the cable pipe itself, a conduit to which creative cable subscribers can attribute all kinds of mischief. Your cable should be protected in a conduit, a plastic tube for electrical wires, so you won't dig into it accidentally. I note the invoice refers to running a low voltage wire through a conduit pipe, hooking up the units, and then checking the operation of the machinery. Taking a quick look around she smiled; the shaped charge had taken out lockers and some electrical conduits, but nothing major. Its telecommunications and electronics group produces electrical connectors, conduits, printed circuit boards, and undersea fiber-optic cable. We used a 58-inch piece of electrical conduit and sharpened the end of it like a vaccination needle. Some of the additions are invisible, such as the minilab in a former coat closet and the metal conduit tubing placed over electrical wires to meet code requirements. Because the wires are between thirty and forty years old and buried without any conduit to protect them from the elements, he judged the job to be too dangerous. Inside the starships, the smells of burning fur and burning flesh mix with the smells of burning conduits and charred circuit boards. Lancing right through layers of armor, electronics and conduits they stabbed into the engine room, slicing into the fusion bottles that powered the great vessel. The researchers mounted the bundle between metal electrodes inside a glass conduit and then measured the voltage generated as various liquids flowed over the bundle. Elevated guideways look sleek in computer renderings, but are less elegant, with thickened columns, electric conduits and emergency walkways. Space on ships is such a precious commodity - crammed behind every panel are conduits, ducts, pipes, cables - that protecting open space can feel as formidable as holding back the sea. A subsequent glance revealed Matthew McCaslin's trademark meandering networks of electrical conduits, wires, cables, monitors and video players. The air bag assembly further includes a gas conduit which provides a gas path for transferring the gas from the inflator to the air bag cushion. Kenneth also suggests trying thin-wall electrical conduit for the same purpose. Hmm, as this thing dried the air by removing moisture, more would just pour in from the ultra-humid outside through scores of tiny openings, from electrical wiring conduits to mouse holes. If layers of phosphorus impregnated silicon and boron-impregnated silicon are joined together with metal leads or conduits, an electrical potential can be created with some help from light. Synonyms channel, duct, pipe, tube, gutter, groove, furrow, trough, trench, culvert, cut, sluice, spillway, race, flume, chute, ditch, drain Origin Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin conductus, from Latin conducere ‘bring together’ (see conduct).
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