duc-, -duce, -duct, -ducent, -ductor, -duction, -ductive, -ducer, -ducement, -ducation +

A minute tubular structure in the walls of certain gregarine sporocysts, through which spores are passed.

Gregarines are protozoans that live as a parasite in the digestive tracts of some insects, arthropods, annelids, and other invertebrates and sporocysts are protective cases or cysts in which sporozoites develop and from which they are transferred to different hosts.

1. To take away or remove surreptitiously (secretly) or fraudulently.
2. To be carried under the edge of an adjoining continental or oceanic plate, causing tensions in the Earth's crust that can produce earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.

1. The action of subduing or fact of being subdued; subjection.
2. A geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate.

1. To conquer and to subjugate; to vanquish, to defeat.
2. To quiet or to bring under control by physical force or persuasion.
3. To make less intense or prominent; to tone down.
4. Etymology: from Old French souduire "to seduce" from Latin subducere "to draw up" and ducere "to lead".

Success through education.

Motto of Thomas Nelson Community College, Hampton, Virginia, USA.

1. To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.
2. To bring in or to induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; to superimpose.

The introduction of something: such as, an addition over or above something already existing.

The ability of a system to conduct heat, usually measured in units of thermal conductance.

Total education.

Motto of Lenoir Community College, Kinston, North Carolina, USA.

1. To speak evil of, especially (now always) falsely or maliciously; to defame, malign, vilify, slander, calumniate, misrepresent; to blame, censure.
2. To cause humiliation or disgrace to someone by making malicious and false statements.
3. To harm the reputation of someone through false and malicious statements.
4. To speak maliciously and falsely of; to slander; to defame: "She tried to traduce the man's character."
5. Etymology: "to alter, change over, transport"; from Latin traducere, "to change over, to convert"; originally "lead along or across, transfer"; from trans-, "across" + ducere, "to lead".

The sense of "defame, slander" (1586) is from Latin traducere with the meaning of "to scorn" or "to disgrace"; probably from the notion of "to lead along as a spectacle".

Someone who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel; in other words: a defamer, a slanderer, a calumniator.

1. A device that converts energy from one form to another, as a cell that converts sunlight to electricity.
2. Any device by which variations in one physical quantity (e.g. pressure, brightness) are quantitatively converted into variations in another (e.g. voltage, position).

1. The transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by a virus or virus-like particle.
2. The process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form.
3. Transfer of genetic material or characteristics from one bacterial cell to another by the incorporation of bacterial DNA into a bacteriophage.

The barcode standard used in North America.

It is administered by the Uniform Code Council.

1. A passage for wind or air.
2. A passage, or pipe, for ventilating apartments or rooms.
3. In a building, a passage for wind or air; a subterraneous passage or spiracle for ventilating apartments.