Duct vs Piping - What's the difference?
duct | piping |
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.
The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
The sound of musical pipes.
An act of making music or noise with pipes.
A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
Piped icing on a cake.
(botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
(botany) propagation by cuttings
High-pitched.
As nouns the difference between duct and piping
is that duct is a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another while piping is the process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.As verbs the difference between duct and piping
is that duct is to channel something through a duct (or series of ducts) while piping is .As an adjective piping is
high-pitched.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 ductspiping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- the piping of a house
Adjective
(-)- His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.