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noun

Conductor n.

One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. "Zeal, the blind conductor of the will."

One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. (U. S.)

(Mus.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.

(Physics) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.

(Surg.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.

(Arch.) Same as Leader.

Prime conductor (Elec.), the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity.

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Etymology of 'Conductor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conductor" Quotes from Famous Books

... dissociate. Only those compounds dissociate whose solutions form electrolytes. Thus salt dissociates when dissolved in water, the resulting solution being an electrolyte. Sugar, on the other hand, does not dissociate and its solution is not a conductor ...

— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson

... tall trunks of the pines, the ever present negroes, the sparks from the engine, and the occasional interruptions from the conductor, kept him from sleep ...

— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown

... their conductor tapping at the wicket Of a small iron door, 't was open'd, and He led them onward, first through a low thicket Flank'd by large groves, which tower'd on either hand: They almost lost their way, and had to pick it— For night was dosing ere they came to land. The eunuch made a sign to those on ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... their way through space in silence, but on a sudden Father TIME plucked his conductor by ...

— Punch Among the Planets • Various

... which I enjoyed in the full sunshine, quite riveted my eyes. But I hardly knew where I was to set my foot; for the serpentine paths were most delicately laid with blue sand, which seemed to form upon the earth a darker sky, or a sky seen in the water: and so I walked for a while beside my conductor, with my eyes fixed upon the ground, until at last I perceived, that, in the middle of this round of beds and flowers, there was a great circle of cypresses or poplar-like trees, through which one could not see, because the lowest branches seemed ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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