What's The Definition Of Conductor?
[n] a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.
[n] the person who leads a musical group
[n] the person who collects fares on a public conveyance
[n] a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
Synonyms | Synonyms for Conductor: director |
music director
Related Terms | Find terms related to Conductor: administrator |
agent |
baggage man |
bakehead |
band leader |
band major |
bandmaster |
bell cow |
bell mare |
bellwether |
bodyguard |
born leader |
brakeman |
brakie |
butcher |
cavalier |
chaperon |
charismatic leader |
choirmaster |
choragus |
companion |
conductance |
conduction |
conductivity |
convoy |
coryphaeus |
deputy |
dielectric |
directeur |
director |
dispatcher |
driver |
drum major |
duce |
duenna |
electric conduction |
engineer |
escort |
esquire |
fellow traveler |
file leader |
fireman |
footplate man |
forerunner |
fugleman |
functionary |
gas conduction |
governor |
guard |
handler |
impresario |
inspired leader |
insulator |
intendant |
ionic conduction |
Kapellmeister |
leader |
leader of men |
lineman |
liquid conduction |
Mahdi |
manager |
manipulator |
messiah |
metallic conduction |
mho |
nonconductor |
operant |
operative |
operator |
orchestra leader |
pacemaker |
pacesetter |
photoconduction |
pilot |
porter |
precentor |
producer |
railroad man |
railroader |
rector |
redcap |
responsible person |
ringleader |
runner |
safe-conduct |
semiconductor |
shepherd |
smoke agent |
squire |
standard-bearer |
stationmaster |
steersman |
stoker |
supercargo |
superconductivity |
superconductor |
swain |
switchman |
symphonic conductor |
torchbearer |
trainboy |
trainman |
trainmaster |
usher |
yardman |
yardmaster
See Also | accumulator |
Ag |
Arthur Fiedler |
Arturo Toscanini |
atomic number 29 |
atomic number 47 |
bandleader |
bandmaster |
Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber |
Benjamin Britten |
Bernstein |
Britten |
Bruno Walter |
bus |
busbar |
bypass |
cable |
Carl Maria von Weber |
collector |
conducting wire |
conductress |
Constant Lambert |
copper |
cord |
Cu |
device |
drum major |
drum majorette |
Edward Benjamin Britten |
electric cord |
electrical shunt |
electrode |
Eugene Ormandy |
Fiedler |
gatherer |
George Szell |
Gustav Mahler |
heat sink |
Hindemith |
Koussevitzky |
Lambert |
Leonard Bernstein |
Leonard Constant Lambert |
Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski |
Leopold Stokowski |
lightning conductor |
lightning rod |
line |
Lord Britten of Aldeburgh |
Mahler |
material |
musician |
Ormandy |
Ozawa |
Paul Hindemith |
Seiji Ozawa |
semiconducting material |
semiconductor |
semiconductor |
semiconductor device |
semiconductor unit |
Serge Koussevitzky |
Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky |
shunt |
silver |
Sir Henry Joseph Wood |
Sir Henry Wood |
Stokowski |
stuff |
Szell |
Toscanini |
transmission line |
Walter |
wave guide |
waveguide |
Weber |
wire |
Wood
Conductor In Webster's Dictionary
\Con*duct"or\ (k[o^]n*d[u^]k"t[~e]r), n. [LL., a
carrier, transporter, L., a lessee.]
1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a
guide; a manager; a director.
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. --Dryden.
2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad
train or a street car. [U. S.]
3. (Mus.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
4. (Physics) A substance or body capable of being a medium
for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or
electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
5. (Surg.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing
instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
6. (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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