conductor

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  Music conductor
• WordNet 3.6
  • n conductor a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.
  • n conductor the person who leads a musical group
  • n conductor the person who collects fares on a public conveyance
  • n conductor a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
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• Interesting fact: In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest
• • Conductor (Surg) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
  • Conductor (Physics) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
  • Conductor One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
  • Conductor One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. "Zeal, the blind conductor of the will."
  • Conductor (Arch) Same as Leader.
  • Conductor (Mus) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
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• Interesting fact: Carnegie Hall in New York City opened in 1891 with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
• • n conductor One who conducts or escorts; one who goes before or accompanies and shows the way; a leader; a guide.
  • n conductor Specifically A chief; a commander; one who leads an army.
  • n conductor A director or manager in general; a regulator.
  • n conductor The director of a chorus or an orchestra; one who indicates to the performers the rhythm and the expression of a piece of concerted music by means of motions of the hands or of a baton. The office of conductor in the modern sense was not clearly distinguished from that of leader until about 1800; formerly the leader played an instrument, usually the harpsichord.
  • n conductor The chief official on a railroad-train, who directs, and is responsible for the execution of orders concerning, the movements of the train, and usually collects tickets or fares; hence, one who performs similar duties on a street-car, etc. The duties of the guard on European railways are similar, but less comprehensive.
  • n conductor That which conducts or transmits in any manner; specifically, in physics, a body that conducts or transmits through its substance energy in any of its forms: as, metals are conductors of electricity and of heat; water is a good conductor of sound. See conductivity.
  • n conductor Hence A lightning-rod.
  • n conductor In surgery, an instrument formerly used in the high operation for stone in the bladder.
  • conductor Specifically, in electricity, a substance through which electric currents can flow. Metals are the best conductors; glass, rubber, air, etc., are very poor conductors. The following divisions may be made: Conductors of the first class, or metallic conductors, as the metals, carbon, silicon, etc., which, except that they are heated, are not affected by the current.
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• Interesting fact: Streetcar conductors, taxi drivers, and business executives have the highest statistical chance of getting peptic ulcers.
• • Conductor 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
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• Minnie Fiske

  

  “The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.”
• George Szell

  

  “Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.”
• Leonard Bernstein

  

  “Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.”

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