conductor
Americannoun
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a person who conducts; a leader, guide, director, or manager.
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an employee on a bus, train, or other public conveyance, who is in charge of the conveyance and its passengers, collects fares or tickets, etc.
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a person who directs an orchestra or chorus, communicating a specific interpretation of the music to the performers by motions of a baton or the hands
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a substance, body, or device that readily conducts heat, electricity, sound, etc..
Copper is a good conductor of electricity.
noun
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an official on a bus who collects fares, checks tickets, etc
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Also called (esp US): director. a person who conducts an orchestra, choir, etc
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a person who leads or guides
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a railway official in charge of a train
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a substance, body, or system that conducts electricity, heat, etc
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A material or an object that conducts heat, electricity, light, or sound. Electrical conductors contain electric charges (usually electrons) that are relatively free to move through the material; a voltage applied across the conductor therefore creates an electric current. Insulators (electrical nonconductors) contain no charges that move when subject to a voltage.
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Compare insulator See also resistance superconductivity
Other Word Forms
- conductorial adjective
- conductorship noun
- conductress noun
- multiconductor adjective
- preconductor noun
Etymology
Origin of conductor
First recorded in 1400–50; from Latin ( conduce, -tor ); replacing late Middle English cond(u)itour from Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle French conduiteur from Latin as above; conduit
Example Sentences
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Mr. Masko is a writer and orchestra conductor in New Hampshire.
Stasevska, with her razor-sharp appreciation of the power of Glass’ work, is the ideal conductor to bring it there.
From Los Angeles Times
Although it can be loosely compared to the motion of a spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, the true processes driving the field are far more complicated.
From Science Daily
Although she chased cats, bit bus conductors and left messes on other people’s rugs, Tulip was inarguably the love of J.R.
Phil music director, by dwelling on the composer he says has meant the most to him since his earliest days as a kid conductor in Caracas.
From Los Angeles Times
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