Duct vs Gaffer - What's the difference?
duct | gaffer |
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs.
(obsolete) Guidance; direction.
(film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
A glassblower.
* 2003 , Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works (page 18)
(colloquial) An old man.
(British) A foreman.
An "Old Gaffer" is a sailor.
In Maritime regions "the Little Gaffer" is the baby in the house.
As nouns the difference between duct and gaffer
is that duct is a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another while gaffer is rubberneck (undesired spectator a scene of crime or accident).As a verb duct
is to channel something through a duct (or series of ducts).duct
English
(Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)- heating and air-conditioning ducts
- otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations. — Henry Hammond.
Derived terms
* ductal * ducted * ducting * ductor * duct tape * Mullerian ducts * Wolffian ductsgaffer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) + (-er). The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.Noun
(en noun)- The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer' s bench