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conduit Botany a water-transporting element in a plant; a xylem vessel or a tracheid conduit [′kän·də·wət] (electricity) Solid or flexible metal or other tubing through which insulated electric wires are run. (engineering) Any channel or pipe for conducting the flow of water or other fluid. (geology) A water-filled underground passage that is always under hydrostatic pressure. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In the Rinkabilly watershed, eighty miles away, he built his reservoir, and for eighty miles the huge wooden conduit carried the water across country to Ophir. When I had inhaled this air freely, I sought the conduit pipe, which conveyed to us the beneficial whiff, and I was not long in finding it. It was from Lady Middleton, announcing their arrival in Conduit Street the night before, and requesting the company of her mother and cousins the following evening. |
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