Conduct
['kɒndʌkt] or [kən'dʌkt]
Definition
(verb.) lead, as in the performance of a composition; 'conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years'.
(verb.) lead musicians in the performance of; 'Bernstein conducted Mahler like no other conductor'; 'she cannot conduct modern pieces'.
(verb.) direct the course of; manage or control; 'You cannot conduct business like this'.
Checked by Hank--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
(n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
(n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
(n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
(n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
(n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
(n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
(n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
(n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
(n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
(n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
(v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.
Checked by Brett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Management, direction, administration, guidance, leadership.[2]. Convoy, escort, guard.[3]. Deportment (in general, or as a matter of habit), BEHAVIOR, demeanor, carriage, bearing, manners, career, manner of life, course of life.
v. a. [1]. Lead, direct, guide, escort, convoy.[2]. Command, govern, preside over.[3]. Manage, regulate, carry on.
Checker: Norris
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BEHAVIOR]
SYN:Lead, bring, carry, transfer, direct, guide, control, manage, administer
ANT:Mislead, miscarry, mismanage, misconduct, misadminister
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Definition
v.t. to lead or guide: to convey (water): to direct: to manage: to behave: (elect.) to carry or transmit.—ns. Con′duct act or method of leading or managing: guidance: escort: guide: management: behaviour; Conductibil′ity.—adjs. Conduct′ible capable of conducting heat &c.: capable of being conducted or transmitted.—n. Conduc′tion act or property of conducting or transmitting: transmission by a conductor as heat.—adj. Conduct′ive having the quality or power of conducting or transmitting.—ns. Conductiv′ity a power that bodies have of transmitting heat and electricity; Conduct′or the person or thing that conducts: a leader: a manager: a leader of an orchestra: one in charge of a bus &c.: that which has the property of transmitting electricity heat &c.—n.fem. Conduct′ress.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- Who, then, shall conduct education so that humanity may improve? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And they both groaned at the atrocious conduct of the elder Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No one can carry around with him a museum of all the things whose properties will assist the conduct of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Are we to be exposed to this unnatural conduct every moment of our lives? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He had several times been recommended for a brigadier-generalcy for gallant and meritorious conduct. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He became cheerful, as he thought of this, and soberly and resolutely marked out the line of conduct he would adopt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was conducted at once to where Sheridan was located with his troops drawn up in line of battle facing the Confederate army near by. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then the kind hostess conducted her guests to the snug apartments blazing with cheerful fires. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Even the subsidy by rulers of privately conducted schools must be carefully safeguarded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The _hypocaust_ was a hot-air furnace built in the basement or cellar of the house and from which the heat was conducted by flues to the bath rooms and other apartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She was particularly delighted when Clennam assured her that there were hospitals, and very kindly conducted hospitals, in Rome. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Nathan Read of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791, invented a tubular boiler in which the flues and gases are conducted through tubes passing through the boiler into the smokestack. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Mexican war was a political war, and the administration conducting it desired to make party capital out of it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Nichols was also with us for a short time conducting a special series of experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Each condensing surface is connected with earth by an electrical conducting wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The contraction of the frog's legs may with considerable safety be said to be caused by these mechanical vibrations being transmitted through the conducting wires. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For this purpose, casts were made of plaster of Paris, which were covered with black lead, to give them the property of conducting electricity, and the metal was then deposited upon them. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Thus the pointed rod either prevents the stroke from the cloud, or, if a stroke is made, conducts it to the earth with safety to the building. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Justice, in her decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by more extensive views. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As the trooper speaks, he conducts them to the other end of the gallery and opens one of the little cabins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- George, you've got a hard master--in fact, he is--well he conducts himself reprehensibly--I can't pretend to defend him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Leading her by the hand, the god then conducts the newly liberated Hellas up the steps of the temple. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mesrour conducts the slave-merchant into my lord's presence; he brings a veiled female with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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