conduit

4 definitions found

conduit - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Conduit \Con"duit\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F., fr. LL. conductus
     escort, conduit. See Conduct.]
     1. A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or
        fluid.
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              All the conduits of my blood froze up. --Shak.
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              This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of
              which, through a hundred different conduits, we have
              drunk.                                --Burke.
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     2. (Arch.)
        (a) A structure forming a reservoir for water. --Oxf.
            Gloss.
        (b) A narrow passage for private communication.
            [1913 Webster] Conduit system

conduit - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  conduit
      n 1: a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or
           electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected
           through a system of conduits"

conduit - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Conduit
  a water-course or channel (Job 38:25). The "conduit of the upper
  pool" (Isa. 7:3) was formed by Hezekiah for the purpose of
  conveying the waters from the upper pool in the valley of Gihon
  to the west side of the city of David (2 Kings 18:17; 20:20; 2
  Chr. 32:30). In carrying out this work he stopped "the waters of
  the fountains which were without the city" i.e., "the upper
  water-course of Gihon", and conveyed it down from the west
  through a canal into the city, so that in case of a siege the
  inhabitants of the city might have a supply of water, which
  would thus be withdrawn from the enemy. (See SILOAM.)
  
    There are also the remains of a conduit which conducted water
  from the so-called "Pools of Solomon," beyond Bethlehem, into
  the city. Water is still conveyed into the city from the
  fountains which supplied these pools by a channel which crosses
  the valley of Hinnom.

conduit - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "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