conduct
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conduct
▶noun /ˈkɒndʌkt/
- 1 the manner in which a person behaves.
- 2 the directing or managing of something.
- 1 organize and carry out.
- 2 guide to or around a place.
- 3 Physics transmit by conduction.
- 4 direct the performance of (a piece of music or an orchestra or choir).
- 5 (conduct oneself) behave in a specified way.
– derivatives
conductible /kənˈdʌktɪb(ə)l/ adjective.
conductible /kənˈdʌktɪb(ə)l/ adjective.
– origin ME (as conduit): from OFr. conduit (n.), conduire (v.), from L. conduct-, conducere ‘bring together’; cf. conduit.
'conduct' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquit
- actus reus
- apologia
- audit
- back-fanged
- bear
- behave
- biopsy
- breach
- carry
- comport
- con
- conduce
- conduct sheet
- conductus
- conduit
- convoy
- DCM
- defend
- defer
- demean
- deport
- directory
- disorderly conduct
- error
- escort
- ethics
- express
- fence
- front-fanged
- govern
- handle
- Hippocratic oath
- individualism
- lay reader
- Levitical
- local preacher
- maxim
- mental cruelty
- minhag
- natural law
- nicety
- non-conductor
- operate
- opprobrium
- order
- policy
- prosecute
- punctilio
