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conductor
English
Alternative forms
- conductour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French conductour, from Old French conduitor, from Latin conductor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?d?kt?/
Noun
conductor (plural conductors, feminine conductress or conductrix)
- One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
- (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
- A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers
- (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
- (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
- (architecture) A leader.
Antonyms
- non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)
Derived terms
- conductor rail
- lightning conductor
Related terms
- conduct
- semiconductor, dielectric
Translations
See also
- ticket inspector
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conduct?rem (“contractor, employer”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kon.duk?to/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun.duk?to/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kon.duk?to?/
Adjective
conductor (feminine conductora, masculine plural conductors, feminine plural conductores)
- driving
- conducting
Noun
conductor m (plural conductors)
- driver
- (physics) conductor
Related terms
- conduir
Latin
Etymology
From cond?c? (“I lead”) +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d??kt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon?duk.tor/, [k?n??d?ukt??r]
Noun
conductor m (genitive conduct?ris, feminine conductr?x); third declension
- employer, entrepreneur
- contractor
- (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conductor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conductor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- conductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
- Obsolete form of condutor.
Romanian
Etymology
From French conducteur, from Latin conductor.
Noun
conductor n (plural conductori)
- conductor
- driver
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin conductor, conductorem (“contractor, employer”). Cognate with English conductor.
Noun
conductor m (plural conductores, feminine conductora, feminine plural conductoras)
- driver, motorist
- conductor (transmitter of electricity, heat, light or sound)
- (Argentina, Uruguay) presenter; host (of television show)
Derived terms
Related terms
- conducir
See also
- chófer
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chaperon
English
Alternative forms
- chaperone
Etymology
From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??æ.p???o?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??æ.p?????n/
Noun
chaperon (plural chaperons)
- An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
- A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
- August 30 1632, James Howell, "To the Right Honourable the Lord Mohun" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ
- His head and face cover'd with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through.
- August 30 1632, James Howell, "To the Right Honourable the Lord Mohun" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ
- A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Translations
Verb
chaperon (third-person singular simple present chaperons, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)
- to accompany, to escort
- to mother
Translations
Anagrams
- Cape Horn, canephor, car phone, carphone
French
Etymology
From Old French, from chape (“head covering”) as the women who acted as chaperones wore head coverings. Equivalent to chape +? -eron. More at English cap, cape
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.p???/
Noun
chaperon m (plural chaperons)
- chaperon
Derived terms
- chaperonnage
- chaperonner
- chaperonnier
- Petit Chaperon rouge
Further reading
- “chaperon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From chape
Noun
chaperon m (oblique plural chaperons, nominative singular chaperons, nominative plural chaperon)
- a hairstyle popular in the Middle Ages
- headscarf for a woman
- (falconry) hood for a bird of prey
- type of sailing vessel
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