conduit

A protective tube through which electrical wires or cables run.

• The wires run through a conduit.
• The electrician installed conduit inside the wall.
• We pulled new cables through the existing conduits.

Similar words: cable duct

Common phrases: electrical conduit, metal conduit, conduit pipe, run conduit

A person or thing through which information, money, or other things pass.

• The website is a conduit for news.
• Teachers can be conduits for new ideas.
• He served as a conduit between the two teams.

How to use it: conduit for something (The charity became a conduit for emergency funds.); conduit between A and B (She acted as a conduit between residents and officials.)

Similar words: channel, means

Common phrases: conduit for information, conduit between groups

A pipe or passage that carries water or another liquid from one place to another.

• Water flows through the conduit.
• The old conduit carried water to the village.
• Workers repaired several underground conduits after the flood.

How to use it: conduit for something (The tunnel serves as a conduit for rainwater.)

Similar words: pipe, channel, duct

Common phrases: water conduit, underground conduit, conduit for water

In a cellular grid simulation, a pattern that moves activity elsewhere and then returns to its original shape.

• The conduit transfers the active pattern.
• We joined several conduits to guide the signal across the grid.
• After the signal passed, the conduit returned to its original state.

Common phrases: stable conduit, signal conduit, conduit chain