MEANING
A pipe, tube, or enclosed passage carrying water, wiring, or another material.
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Words that belong together
- electrical conduit
- underground conduit
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The cable ran through an underground conduit.
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- Base
- conduit
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular conduit; plural conduits. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, technology. Commonness: moderately common.
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