What's the difference between duct and duet?

Duct


Definition:

  • (n.) Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
  • (n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
  • (n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
  • (n.) Guidance; direction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (2) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (3) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
  • (4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (5) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
  • (6) No methionine-enkephalin-positive nerves could be detected in the common bile duct, pancreatic duct or gallbladder.
  • (7) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
  • (8) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
  • (9) Dacryography is the only means of exploring the permeability of the lacrymal ducts and to conclude as the whether watering of the eyes is organic or functional.
  • (10) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
  • (11) Histological studies with neonatal mice raise the possibility that Müllerian duct tissue may represent a site for the transplacental toxicity of DES in both the male and female fetus.
  • (12) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
  • (13) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
  • (14) A series of 172 lithiasis of the common bile duct has been analysed.
  • (15) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
  • (16) Although 25 Gy IORT plus 50 Gy EBRT was tolerated by the duodenum to 135 days, these doses may cause later pancreatic injury as an expression of damage to blood vessels and ducts.
  • (17) This report describes a newly developed catheter system with the aid of which the cystic duct and gallbladder can be reliably catheterized, retrograde, via an endoscope.
  • (18) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
  • (19) To study the role of the serum complement system in the early necrosis of acinar cells an acute pancreatitis was produced by injection of basement membrane antibodies into the pancreatic duct of mice and rats.
  • (20) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.

Duet


Definition:

  • (n.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both Jones and Cullum played a number of live tracks and sang a duet too, and this is the new programme's backbone.
  • (2) Alicia Keys and John Legend will duet on Let It Be , while John Mayer has agreed to join country singer Keith Urban for a rendition of Don't Let Me Down .
  • (3) The album is John Ogdon and Brenda Lucas's album Two Pianos, featuring duets by Mozart, Brahms and Lutosławski.
  • (4) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
  • (5) In Sacred Monsters , her 2006 duet with Akram Khan, she explored fluidity of Asian movement and the challenge of the spoken work: in Robert Lepage’s Eonnagata she moved towards experimental theatre, and in her subsequent collaborations with Maliphant she developed a rich new palette of rapt, inwardly focused dance.
  • (6) This autumn’s project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Galván, exploring their fascination with rhythm, gesture, pattern and myth.
  • (7) This resulted in significant changes in frequency of duetting.
  • (8) He seems equally startled when talk turns to his 1989 remake of Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart, the duet with gay icon Marc Almond that returned him to the top of the British charts 15 years after his last hit.
  • (9) It is understood that the letter raises issues such as noise – in July Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney's microphones were switched off during a duet due to curfew issues .
  • (10) Susan Boyle and Elvis Presley's duet, "Oh Come All Ye Faithful", is released today – all proceeds go to Save the Children .
  • (11) Within a week we’ve heard that the acclaimed singer-songwriters Ed Harcourt and Kathryn Williams are willing to sing our duet.
  • (12) He's had a few close shaves (a duet with Cocteau Twins' Liz Frazer and an appearance on The One Show spring to mind) but the idea of maintaining a fanbase, even a cult one, is alien to Lawrence.
  • (13) A film he was to star in about the Silk Road, written by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's president, seems however to have broken down in the wake of bitter family infighting – but they'll always have the duet they recorded together, How Dare .
  • (14) Any Moldy Peach diehards balking at the idea of Green duetting with someone other than Dawson are missing out, though: this record sounds as though he and Shapiro have known each other for ever.
  • (15) I told him one day, 'Let's do a small duet of baritone and soprano,' and he said, 'No, no, my fans only know me as a rock singer and they will not recognise my voice if I sing in baritone.'
  • (16) Duets are Maliphant's forte – even his solos often feel like duets, in which one of the partners is light, space or sound.
  • (17) I've got a new duet, as we call them, out now, or coming out now.
  • (18) A couple of years later, Wright and Jack Anglin formed a duet act, Johnnie & Jack, and she toured with them in the then conventional role of the "girl singer".
  • (19) On Saturday's show, the four remaining finalists will compete with each other by singing solo and duetting with established acts before two rounds of voting leave two acts in a head-to-head on Sunday's show.
  • (20) Apart from a brief and unhappy appearance on the BBC's Just the Two of Us (a celebrity duet singing contest in which she was partnered with Alexander O'Neal) in 2006 – "Never again!"