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Conductor   /kəndˈəktər/   Listen
Conductor

noun
1.
The person who leads a musical group.  Synonyms: director, music director.
2.
A substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat.
3.
The person who collects fares on a public conveyance.
4.
A device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc..



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"Conductor" Quotes from Famous Books



... sleep, Stuart sat up and began unbuckling the strap around my box. I knew enough to keep still when he took the lid off and gently stroked me. I had no intention of being sent back to the baggage-car, if keeping quiet would help me to escape the conductor's eyes. ...
— The Story of Dago • Annie Fellows-Johnston
... his ordinary habits! At this very time, only twenty-four hours since, he was stepping slowly and majestically towards his accustomed omnibus, which was waiting with deference for him to overtake it; he was taking his seat, saluted respectfully by the conductor and cheerily by his fellow-passengers, as a man of recognised mark ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... waterfalls, no games at Annandale, no rehearsals at Herr Felix von Battin's, no choir practice at the church even, from which he can safely absent himself. A word, a kiss, some matrimonial charm dissolved—these electric disturbances of society must be averted. The Archdeacon is the lightning conductor; where he is, the leaven of naughtiness passes to the ground, and society ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
... to pass a coin to the conductor, he would gravely put it into his pocket. A well-dressed, well-bred gentleman, of charming manners, could scarcely be suspected of any intention to misappropriate a two-sous piece. But it interested ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... leagues distant from it. The Count being at Antwerp, and the war being hottest in the neighbourhood of Mons, I thus was prevented seeing either of them on my return. I could only write to the Countess by a servant of the gentleman who was now my conductor. As soon as she learned I was at Nivelle, she sent some gentlemen, natives of the part of Flanders I was in, with a strong injunction to see me safe ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre


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