Duct vs Plumbing - What's the difference?
duct | plumbing |
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.
(uncountable) The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building.
(uncountable) The trade or occupation of a plumber.
(uncountable, informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
(countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
As nouns the difference between duct and plumbing
is that duct is a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another while plumbing is the pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building.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 ductsplumbing
English
Noun
(en noun)- My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.