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ducked, duct
ducked (DUK't) (verb)
To lower the head or body quickly; especially, so as to avoid something; to dodge or to evade: "The people ducked so they wouldn't hit their heads on the lower than normal door frames."
duct (DUKT) (noun)
1. A tubular passage through which a substance; especially, a fluid, is conveyed: "The roofer installed a new rain duct along the edge of the roof."
2. A bodily passage, particularly one for secretion: "The duct from the kidney was blocked and it was very painful for the patient."

When Stan walked in the basement, he ducked his head so he wouldn't hit it on the heating duct coming from the furnace.

duct
1. A conduit, channel, or tube, for the conveyance of water or other liquid.
2. A pipe or tube through which air is conveyed for cooling, ventilation, etc.
3. A conduit for an electric cable or the like.
4. A tube or canal in the animal body, by which the bodily fluids are conveyed.

Formerly used in a wide sense, so as to include the blood-vessels and alimentary canal, but now applied more strictly to the vessels conveying the chyle, lymph, and secretions.

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(Latin: vessel [blood, other fluids]; tube, duct)
(Greek: choledochos, from chole, "bile" + dechomai, "to receive"; the common bile duct or tube; conveying bile; containing bile, which is a yellow-green fluid that is made by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and passes through the common bile duct into the first section of the small intestine or duodenum where it helps to digest fat)
(Latin: to lead, leading; bringing; to take; to draw along or out)
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atmospheric duct (s) (noun), atmospheric ducts (pl)
In geophysics, a layer of the troposphere in which refractive properties are such as to trap a large proportion of certain high frequency radiations: An atmospheric duct is a stratum of the troposphere within which the refractive index varies so as to confine, within the limits of the stratum, the propagation of an abnormally large proportion of any radiation of sufficiently high frequency, as in a mirage.

Atmospheric ducting is a mode of propagation of electromagnetic radiation, usually in the lower layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, where the waves are bent by atmospheric refraction.

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