conductor
English
Alternative forms
- conductour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈdʌktɚ/
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Noun
conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress)
- One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
- Dryden
- Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
- Dryden
- (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
- A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers
- train conductor; tram conductor
- Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
- (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
- (architecture) A leader.
Antonyms
- non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)
Derived terms
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Translations
person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble
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person who takes tickets on public transportation
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something which can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductōrem (“contractor, employer”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
conductor (feminine conductora, masculine plural conductors, feminine plural conductores)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈduk.tor/, [kɔnˈdʊk.tɔr]
Noun
conductor m (genitive conductōris); third declension
- employer, entrepreneur
- contractor
- (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | conductor | conductōrēs |
Genitive | conductōris | conductōrum |
Dative | conductōrī | conductōribus |
Accusative | conductōrem | conductōrēs |
Ablative | conductōre | conductōribus |
Vocative | conductor | conductōrēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: conductor
- English: conductor
- French: conducteur
- Galician: conductor
- Old French: conduitor
- Portuguese: condutor
- Russian: конду́ктор (kondúktor)
- Spanish: conductor
References
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conductor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- conductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
- Obsolete form of condutor.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductorem (“contractor, employer”).
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
Related terms
See also
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