sinus vs duct

sinus and duct both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sinus	Yes	No	No	No
duct	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, duct is a hypernym of sinus; that is, duct is a word with a broader meaning than sinus:

sinus: a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel
duct: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

Other hypernyms of sinus include canal, channel, epithelial duct.

sinus (noun)	duct (noun)
a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel	an enclosed conduit for a fluid
any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull	a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface	a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls

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