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Definition

a passageway

in 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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