different between warder vs conductor

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

warder (plural warders)

1. A guard, especially in a prison.
   • 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.

     But hath thy portion wrought so happily?

     Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,

     I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368^th Night, p. 26,^[2]

     So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, Chapter 24,

     Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.

2. (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,^[3]

     When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,

     Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,^[4]

     Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, London: Tho. Lownds, Chapter 3, p. 91,^[5]

     If thou dost not comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity. And so saying, the Herald cast down his warder.

Translations

Anagrams

• drawer, redraw, reward, warred

Old French

Verb

warder

1. (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of guarder

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Picard

Etymology

From Old French warder.

Verb

warder

1. to keep

Conjugation

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