Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who conducts, especially.
- noun One who is in charge of a railroad train, bus, or streetcar.
- noun Music One who directs an orchestra or other such group.
- noun Physics A substance or medium that conducts heat, light, sound, or especially an electric charge.
- noun A lightning rod, as on a house or barn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Specifically, in electricity, a substance through which electric currents can flow.
- noun One who conducts or escorts; one who goes before or accompanies and shows the way; a leader; a guide.
- noun Specifically A chief; a commander; one who leads an army.
- noun A director or manager in general; a regulator.
- noun The director of a chorus or an orchestra; one who indicates to the performers the rhythm and the expression of a piece of concerted music by means of motions of the hands or of a baton.
- noun The chief official on a railroad-train, who directs, and is responsible for the execution of orders concerning, the movements of the train, and usually collects tickets or fares; hence, one who performs similar duties on a street-car, etc. The duties of the guard on European railways are similar, but less comprehensive.
- noun That which conducts or transmits in any manner; specifically, in physics, a body that conducts or transmits through its substance energy in any of its forms: as, metals are conductors of electricity and of heat; water is a good conductor of sound. See
conductivity . - noun Hence A lightning-rod.
- noun In surgery, an instrument formerly used in the high operation for stone in the bladder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
- noun United States One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
- noun (Mus.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
- noun (Physics) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
- noun (Surg.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
- noun (Arch.) Same as
Leader . - noun (Elec.) the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who conducts or leads; a
guide ; adirector . - noun music A person who
conducts anorchestra ,choir or othermusic ensemble ; a professional whose occupation is conducting. - noun A person who takes tickets on public transportation.
- noun Something that can
transmit electricity ,heat ,light orsound . - noun mathematics An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- noun A
grooved sound orstaff used for directing instruments, such aslithontriptic forceps ; adirector . - noun architecture A
leader .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
- noun the person who leads a musical group
- noun a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.
- noun the person who collects fares on a public conveyance
Etymologies
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Examples
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The conductor not indicating anything during this period (rendered somewhat considerable by the extreme slowness of the movement), the players are then entirely left to themselves, _without conductor_; and as the rhythmical feeling is not the same with all, it follows that some hurry, while others slacken, and unity is soon destroyed.
The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art Hector Berlioz 1836
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The effects to be considered _depend on the conductor_ employed to complete the communication between the zinc and copper plates of the electromotor; and I shall have to consider this conductor under four different forms: as the helix of an electro-magnet (1056); as an ordinary helix (1053, &c.); as a _long_ extended wire, having its course such that the parts can exert little or no mutual influence; and as a _short_ wire.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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She says choosing a conductor is always a huge leap of faith.
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She says choosing a conductor is always a huge leap of faith.
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She says choosing a conductor is always a huge leap of faith.
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She says choosing a conductor is always a huge leap of faith.
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The orchestra conductor is a violinist who has conducted in both the United States and China.
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She says choosing a conductor is always a huge leap of faith.
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In other words, the credit card industry will need to find a new train conductor if they want to keep railroading consumers into lawless corporate tribunals.
Wonk Room » How Minnesota’s AG Saved Consumers From the Credit Card Industry 2009
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The latter, she decided, would be unfair to the train conductor, and neither would be good for the family.
Death Becomes Him 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word conductor
"The director of a chorus or an orchestra; one who indicates to the performers the rhythm and the expression of a piece of concerted music by means of motions of the hands or of a baton. The office of conductor in the modern sense was not clearly distinguished from that of leader until about 1800; formerly the leader played an instrument, usually the harpsichord."
--CD&C
May 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word conductor
that's electric eclectic!
May 13, 2012