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conduct
English
Etymology
From Late Latin conductus (“defense, escort”), from Latin conductus, perfect passive participle of cond?c? (“bring together”); see also conduce. Doublet of conduit.
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?nd?kt/
- (US) enPR: k?n'd?kt, IPA(key): /?k?nd?kt/
- (verb)
- enPR: k?nd?kt', IPA(key): /k?n?d?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
conduct (countable and uncountable, plural conducts)
- The act or method of controlling or directing
- 1785, William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
- There are other restrictions imposed upon the conduct of war, not by the law of nature primarily, but by the laws of war first, and by the law of nature as seconding and ratifying the laws of war.
- 1843, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
- the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs, its policy, and its laws, are for more uncertain
- 1785, William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
- Skillful guidance or management; leadership
- 1722 (first printed) Edmund Waller, Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons
- Conduct of armies is a prince's art.
- 1769, William Robertson, The history of the reign of Emperor Charles V
- […] attacked the Spaniards […] with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge Chapter 49
- At the head of that division which had Westminster Bridge for its approach to the scene of action, Lord George Gordon took his post; with Gashford at his right hand, and sundry ruffians, of most unpromising appearance, forming a kind of staff about him. The conduct of a second party, whose route lay by Blackfriars, was entrusted to a committee of management
- 1722 (first printed) Edmund Waller, Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons
- behaviour; the manner of behaving
- Good conduct will be rewarded and likewise poor conduct will be punished.
- 1840, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder
- when she came to recall the affectionate and natural manner of the young Indian girl, and all the evidences of good faith and sincerity she had seen in her conduct during the familiar intercourse of their journey, she rejected the idea with the unwillingness of a generous disposition to believe ill of others
- 1848, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II
- All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury.
- 1711, John Dryden, Tenth Satire (translation from Latin of Juvenal)
- What in the conduct of our life appears / So well designed, so luckily begun, / But when we have our wish, we wish undone?
- (of a literary work) plot; storyline
- c. 1800, Thomas Macaulay, Essays, critical and miscellaneous
- The book of Job, indeed, in conduct and diction, bears a considerable resemblance to some of his dramas.
- c. 1800, Thomas Macaulay, Essays, critical and miscellaneous
- (obsolete) convoy; escort; person who accompanies another
- 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour
- I will be your conduct.
- 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour
- (archaic) Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument.
Synonyms
- (act or method of controlling or directing): control, guidance, management
- (manner of guiding or carrying oneself): bearing, behavior/behaviour, deportment, demeanor/demeanour,
- (plot of a literary work): action, plot, storyline
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
conduct (third-person singular simple present conducts, present participle conducting, simple past and past participle conducted)
- (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus
- I can conduct you, lady, to a low / But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus
- (transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
- The commander conducted thousands of troops.
- to conduct the affairs of a kingdom
- 1856-1858, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Phillip II
- the Turks, however efficient they may have been in field operations, had little skill as engineers, and no acquaintance with the true principles of conducting a siege
- (transitive) (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.
- He conducted himself well.
- (transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)
- 1975, Clive M. Countryman, Heat-Its Role in Wildland Fire Part 2
- Water and many other liquids do not conduct heat well. Wildland fuels in general, wood, and wood products conduct heat slowly, and so do soil and rocks.
- 1975, Clive M. Countryman, Heat-Its Role in Wildland Fire Part 2
- (transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
- 2006, Michael R. Waters with Mark Long and William Dickens, Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne
- For a while, Walter Pohlmann, a well-known German conductor, conducted the orchestra in Compound 3. Later, Willi Mets, who had conducted the world-renowned Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, conducted the Compound 3 orchestra.
- 2006, Michael R. Waters with Mark Long and William Dickens, Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne
- (intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
- (transitive) To carry out (something organized)
Synonyms
- (lead or guide): accompany, escort, guide, lead, steer, belead
- (direct): direct, lead, manage, oversee, run, supervise, belead
- (reflexively: to behave): act, behave, carry on
- (to serve as a medium for conveying): carry, convey, transmit
Derived terms
Translations
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distribution
English
Alternative forms
- distribucion (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?st???bju???n/
Noun
distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- Anything distributed; portion; share.
- December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul
- our charitable distributions
- December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
- (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- (mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- (software) A set of bundled software components; distro.
- (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Di?tribucion”:
- It is al?o called a di?tribucion, when we diuide the whole, into ?euerall partes, and ?aie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpo?e to ?peake, comp?ehendyng our whole talke within compa??e of the?ame.
- 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia I, page 230/2 s.v. “Di?tribution²”:
- Di?tribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of De?cription; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Divi?ion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Di?tribucion”:
Derived terms
Related terms
- distributee
- distributive
- distributor
Translations
References
- “Distribution” on page 534 of § 1 (D, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
Further reading
- Distribution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Noun
distribution c (singular definite distributionen, plural indefinite distributioner)
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Declension
Further reading
- “distribution” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Classical Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to ' (from tribus).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.t?i.by.sj??/
Noun
distribution f (plural distributions)
- A distribution
- A physical arrangement, spacing
Related terms
- distribuable
- distribuer
- distributaire m
- distributeur m
- distributif
- distributivement
Further reading
- “distribution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Noun
distribution c
- distribution, dissemination
- (mathematics) a distribution, generalized function
- (statistics) a distribution
Declension
Synonyms
- spridning
- statistics
- fördelning
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