conduit

noun

ˈkän-ˌdü-ət How to pronounce conduit (audio)
Definition of conduitnext
1
as in pipe
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas) the major conduit for carrying water to the military base

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2
as in aqueduct
an open man-made passageway for water water flowed along the conduit to the fountain

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Recent Examples of conduit Creators Drop The Pranks And Get Serious MIPCOM was a conduit for the developing creator economy this year, with the focus switching to those YouTube and digital stars who are actually building businesses. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 Container shipping has largely bypassed the conduit—which harbored shipments of roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil and natural gas supply before the war—throughout the nearly eight-month conflict. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 The exec also served as a conduit between Sony and Netflix on a pay one output deal involving the streaming giant’s commitment to buy films that had been developed at Sony but that weren’t destined for theaters. — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026 Nord Stream 1 and 2 are two major conduits created to funnel Russian gas to Europe, via Germany. — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for conduit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conduit
  1. pipe
  2. aqueduct
  3. tube
  4. canal
  5. channel
  6. funnel
Noun
  • The pipes in portable washrooms would have frozen, so the production hired extra drivers to shuttle crew to their hotel bathrooms.
    — Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
  • And while unstable coalitions repeatedly fused and dissolved in the halls of power, outside these halls pipes burst and roads crumbled.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of pipe
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  • The update approved Thursday sets rules for the Sacramento River and the rest of the Delta, where pumps operated by state and federal agencies send water flowing in aqueducts to farms and cities.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Since 2003, the city has used its excess Colorado River water, which flows to the city through a 326-mile network of aqueducts, to recharge the Avra Valley aquifer.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of aqueduct
Noun
  • Suddenly, her daughter was covered in tubes and doctors were performing CPR.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Tim was way ahead of a huge trend in guitar playing — ditching physical, tube amps for digital modeling.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of tube
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  • Sites is planned 17 miles west of the river itself, and will draw water through a system of canals and pipes to fill the reservoir.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
  • To prepare, cities have deployed an arsenal of weapons against the floods, including sandbags, water pumps, sand berms and drainage canals.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of canal
Noun
  • The power channels through a sophisticated 9-speed automatic transmission to a single, massive 12-inch (305-mm) wide rear tire.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Engineers can also adjust channel width to balance performance, power consumption, and the space occupied by a device.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of channel
Noun
  • North, who’s increasingly stepped out with her dad amid her burgeoning music career, towered over him while wearing an oversized black funnel-neck dress, chunky black leather shoes, and her now-signature electric blue hair.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The disparity is in who gets into the funnel, is treated as the household’s principal investor and gets approached in the first place.
    — Nili Sangani, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
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