Melodrama vs Duct - What's the difference?
melodrama | duct |
(archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
(countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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(uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
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.
As nouns the difference between melodrama and duct
is that melodrama is while duct is a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.As a verb duct is
to channel something through a duct (or series of ducts).melodrama
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(wikipedia melodrama)Noun
Derived terms
* melodramatic * melodramatics * melodramatist * melodramatize ----duct
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(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.
