The body
Synonyms for duct
Synonyms for duct: channel and conduit. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for duct
Interchangeable with duct in this sense
Audited under duct's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one duct carries in that sense.
- channelnoun, in the sense "a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name duct as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- conduitconduit is a noun in the sense "a channel or pipe through which something is conveyed"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under duct and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
The tear duct was obstructed.
The true synonym
channel
Same sentence, swapped: The tear channel was obstructed.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- gorge
- sinus
- vessel
Where duct turns up in the game
duct is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play duct
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so duct reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from the body at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. duct carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.