different between partner vs conductor

English

Etymology

From Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (“joint heir”) from parçon (“partition”), from Latin part?ti?nem, singular accusative of part?ti? (“portion”). The word may also represent Old French part tenour (“part holder”). Compare also Middle English partifere (“partner”), partifelewe (“partner”). Doublet of parcener.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??tn?(?)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p??tn?/, [?p???n?]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?p??tn?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?p??tn?/

Noun

partner (plural partners)

1. One of each halves of a pair of someone or something that belongs together.
2. Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
   1. A member of a business or law partnership.
      • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

        He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.

   2. A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic or sexual bond.
   3. Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.

      • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].

   4. Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.
3. (nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.
4. (Jamaican) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:associate
• See also Thesaurus:spouse

Descendants

Translations

Verb

partner (third-person singular simple present partners, present participle partnering, simple past and past participle partnered)

1. (transitive) To join as a partner.
2. (intransitive, often with with) To work or perform as a partner.

Translations

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner m (indefinite plural partnerë, definite singular partneri, definite plural partnerët)

1. partner

Declension

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?partn?r]

Noun

partner m

1. partner

Related terms

• See part

Further reading

• partner in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• partner in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From English partner.

Noun

partner c (singular definite partneren, plural indefinite partnere)

1. partner

Inflection

References

• “partner” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?rt.n?r/
• Hyphenation: part?ner

Noun

partner m (plural partners, diminutive partnertje n)

1. partner, love interest, romantic and/or sexual companion
2. partner, companion (someone whom one engages in business)

   Synonyms: deelgenoot, genoot, vennoot

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

From English partner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?rtn?r]
• Hyphenation: part?ner
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

partner (plural partnerek)

1. partner

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• partner in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner m or f (invariable)

1. partner (all senses)

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• pardner, partnah

Etymology

From English partner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??dna/
• Hyphenation: part?ner

Noun

partner (plural: partner dem, quantified: partner)

1. partner

2. (financial): An informal saving scheme.

See also

• throw partner

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 430

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English partner.

Noun

partner m (definite singular partneren, indefinite plural partnere, definite plural partnerne)

1. a partner

Derived terms

• partnerskap

See also

• partnar (Nynorsk)

References

• “partner” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English partner, from Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (“joint heir”), from parçon (“partition”), from Latin part?ti?nem, singular accusative of part?ti? (“portion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.tn?r/

Noun

partner m pers (feminine partnerka)

1. partner (someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest)
2. partner (spouse, domestic, or romantic partner)
3. equal (someone of equal status to others)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• (adverb) partnersko (adverb)

Further reading

• partner in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• partner in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner, from Old French parçonneour (“joint heir”).

Noun

partner m, f (plural partneres)

1. (dancing) a dance partner

   Synonym: par

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pârtner/
• Hyphenation: part?ner

Noun

p?rtner m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. partner

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner c

1. partner

   Synonyms: kompanjon, medspelare, moatjé

Usage notes

• The English plural partners is also used.

Declension

Related terms

References

• partner in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English partner.

Noun

partner m (plural partneriaid or partners)

1. partner

   Template:coordinate term

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “partner”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from English parter.

Noun

partner c (plural partners)

1. partner

Derived terms

• partnerskip

Further reading

• “partner”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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)

1. One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
2. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
3. A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers

4. (physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
5. (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.

6. A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
7. (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)

1. driving
2. conducting

Noun

conductor m (plural conductors)

1. driver
2. (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

1. employer, entrepreneur
2. contractor
3. (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)

1. Obsolete form of condutor.

Romanian

Etymology

From French conducteur, from Latin conductor.

Noun

conductor n (plural conductori)

1. conductor
2. 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)

1. driver, motorist
2. conductor (transmitter of electricity, heat, light or sound)
3. (Argentina, Uruguay) presenter; host (of television show)

Derived terms

Related terms

• conducir

See also

• chófer