different between picket vs conductor

English

Etymology

From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?p?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t
• Hyphenation: pick?et

Noun

picket (countable and uncountable, plural pickets)

1. A stake driven into the ground.

2. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4. (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 59:

     So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.

5. (sometimes figuratively) A sentry.
6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
7. (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.

Derived terms

• picket line
• picket pin
• picket rope

Translations

Verb

picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)

1. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
2. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
3. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

   to picket a horse

4. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Derived terms

• picketing (noun)
• unpicketed

German

Pronunciation

Verb

picket

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of picken

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