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Noun conductor has 4 senses
- conductor, music director, director - the person who leads a musical group
--1 is a kind of musician
--1 has particulars: | | bandleader; bandmaster; drum major; drum majorette; Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein; Britten, Benjamin Britten, Edward Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh; Fiedler, Arthur Fiedler; Hindemith, Paul Hindemith; Koussevitzky, Serge Koussevitzky, Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky; Lambert, Constant Lambert, Leonard Constant Lambert; Mahler, Gustav Mahler; Ormandy, Eugene Ormandy; Ozawa, Seiji Ozawa; Stokowski, Leopold Stokowski, Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski; Szell, George Szell; Toscanini, Arturo Toscanini; Walter, Bruno Walter; Weber, Carl Maria von Weber, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber; Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Wood |
- conductor - a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.
--2 is a kind of device
--2 has particulars: | | busbar, bus; cable, line, transmission line; cord, electric cord; electrode; heat sink; lightning rod, lightning conductor; semiconductor device, semiconductor unit, semiconductor; shunt, electrical shunt, bypass; waveguide, wave guide; wire, conducting wire |
- conductor - a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
--3 is a kind of material, stuff
Antonyms: insulator, dielectric, nonconductor
--3 has particulars:
- conductor - the person who collects fares on a public conveyance
--4 is a kind of collector, gatherer, accumulator
--4 has particulars: conductress
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