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Definition
a passagewayin various senses, including:
- a pipe or channel for water
- a protective pipe through which electrical wires are run
- someone or something that conveys information or goods
- Building codes requires the wires be run in a conduit.
- The Ukrainian pipeline became a conduit for 70% of Russian gas sales to Europe.
- The traders are a conduit to people in the rural area.
- And all the conduits of my blood froze up,Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
- Mice were chewing on the cables, so we re-ran them in a conduit.
- I think of church as a conduit to God.
- This ring was the conduit through which Bobby could send the journals of his incredible adventures back to his friends.D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
- She had felt like the conduit of something huge, as if the daylight world were flowing through her into midnight, changing everything.Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
- Some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds must empty into thee!Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- The gae bolga was a conduit—it was a living tether to the war goddess herself.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- It left the Church out of the loop, undermining their self-proclaimed status as the sole conduit to God.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- He felt as if he were not inventing his tale, but merely acting as a conduit to transport it fully formed into the world.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- — How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- Rain filled electrical conduits and shorted circuits.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- So we had hung and wired a new circuit panel, bent and run conduit around the visiting room, and wired new outlets.Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
- She knows she will end up as a mere convenient conduit used for the passage of external things.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- For years there was this happy time when those controlling the major internet conduits were actually decent enough people.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- Frightful energies began to build within him, as though his body were a conduit for the very storm that raged outside.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- If I had my senses about me I might have called in Conduit Street in my way home, and told them of it.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- I'm the conduit, the reservoir, the nozzle of the blessed sap that pounds against the bone-dry valleys of the moon.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
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