Torture vs Duct - What's the difference?
torture | duct |
Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
(chiefly, literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
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 verbs the difference between torture and duct
is that torture is while duct is to channel something through a duct (or series of ducts).As a noun duct is
a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.torture
English
(wikipedia torture)Noun
(en noun)- Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture .
- In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.
- People confess to anything under torture .
- Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture !
Derived terms
* torture chamber *Verb
(tortur)- People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
Derived terms
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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.
