Noun: conduit
| Singular | conduit |
| Plural | conduits |
Sample Sentences
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This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.
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Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.
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The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.
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Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church. [2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like conduit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct. See: Middle English Nouns '
conduyt', Latin Nouns '
conductus'.