<B>conduct, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>way of acting; behavior. <BR> <I>Ex. to win a medal for good conduct. Their conduct was rude and inexcusable.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>direction; management; execution. <BR> <I>Ex. Conduct of such a large office takes much planning.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>leading; guidance. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) an escort; guide. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to act in a certain way; behave. <BR> <I>Ex. At home he is disorderly, but in company he conducts himself well.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to direct the course of; manage. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Jones conducts the affairs of a big business.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to direct (an orchestra, or choir, or the performance of music) as leader. <BR> <I>Ex. The overture was conducted by the composer himself.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to accompany and show the way to; guide; lead. <BR> <I>Ex. Conduct me to your teacher. He conducted me through the museum.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to transmit, transfer, or convey (heat, electricity, sound, or other form of energy; be a channel for. <BR> <I>Ex. Metal conducts heat and electricity. Those pipes conduct steam to the radiator upstairs.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to act as conductor, especially of an orchestra. <BR> <I>Ex. The maestro conducted with his usual brilliance.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to transmit heat, electricity, etc. <DD><B> 3. </B>to lead; be the way; pass. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Rare.) to behave. </DL>
<A NAME="conductance">
<B>conductance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the power of conducting electricity as affected by the shape, length, or material of the conductor; the ease with which a substance or a solution of it permits the passage of an electrical current. Its unit of measurement is the mho, reciprocal of the ohm. </DL>
<A NAME="conductibility">
<B>conductibility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the power of conducting heat, electricity, sound or other form of energy. </DL>
<A NAME="conductible">
<B>conductible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that can conduct heat, electricity, etc. <DD><B> 2. </B>that can be conducted. </DL>
<A NAME="conduction">
<B>conduction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the transmission of heat, sound, or other form of energy, by the transferring of energy from one particle to another. Radiators heat the air in a room by conduction. <BR> <I>Ex. Conduction is the process by which heat is transferred through matter, without transfer of the matter itself (Thomas A. Blair).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the transmission of electricity by a conductor. <DD><B> c. </B><B>=conductivity.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a conveying. <BR> <I>Ex. the conduction of water through a pipe. The movement of sap in plants is called conduction.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Physiology.) the transmission of an impulse through muscle or nerve tissue. </DL>
<A NAME="conductitious">
<B>conductitious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> hired; serving for hire; open to hire. </DL>
<B>conductivity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the power of conducting heat, electricity, sound, or other form of energy. <BR> <I>Ex. The conductivity of a given material varies with temperature (Sears and Zemansky).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the ability of a given substance to conduct electricity between opposite faces of a one-centimeter cube of the material, measured in reciprocal ohms, or mhos, per centimeter cube. <DD><B> 3. </B>the rate of transfer of heat by conduction between opposite faces of a one-centimeter cube of a substance, having unit temperature difference between opposite faces. </DL>
<A NAME="conductometer">
<B>conductometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus for measuring the relative conductivity, especially thermal conductivity, of different materials. </DL>
<A NAME="conductometric">
<B>conductometric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the measurement of conductivity; obtained by a conductometer. </DL>
<A NAME="conductometry">
<B>conductometry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the measurement of the relative conductivity of different materials, especially by a conductometer. </DL>
<A NAME="conductor">
<B>conductor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who conducts; director; manager. <BR> <I>Ex. The successful owner of a business must be an able conductor of business affairs.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the director of an orchestra or chorus. The conductor of an orchestra or chorus trains the performers to work together, selects the music to be used, beats time for the orchestra and conducts rehersals. <BR> <I>Ex. The conductor ... a musical interpreter (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>the person in charge of a train or a bus and its passengers. The conductor usually collects the tickets or fares from the passengers. <DD><B> b. </B>a guide or leader; person who is in charge of or guides a group of people traveling together. <BR> <I>Ex. the conductor of a tour.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a thing that transmits heat, electricity, light, sound or other form of energy. <BR> <I>Ex. Copper is a good conductor of heat and electricity.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=lightning rod.</B> adj. <B>conductorless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="conductorial">
<B>conductorial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a conductor or conducting. <BR> <I>Ex. conductorial techniques.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="conductorship">
<B>conductorship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the office or function of a conductor. </DL>
<A NAME="conductress">
<B>conductress, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman conductor. </DL>
<A NAME="conductus">
<B>conductus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a polyphonic form of church music, sung in the 1200's. </DL>
<A NAME="conduit">
<B>conduit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a channel or pipe for carrying liquids long distances; aqueduct or canal. <DD><B> 2. </B>a tube or underground passage for electric wires or cables. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) a fountain. </DL>
<A NAME="conduplicate">
<B>conduplicate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> folded together lengthwise. <BR> <I>Ex. a conduplicate leaf in bud.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="conduplication">
<B>conduplication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a doubling; repetition. </DL>
<A NAME="condylar">
<B>condylar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a condyle. </DL>
<A NAME="condylarth">
<B>condylarth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of early Tertiary mammals, believed to be the ancestral stock of the modern ungulates. <BR> <I>Ex. The condylarths ... had toes with structures intermediate between claws and hoofs (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="condylarthrous">
<B>condylarthrous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having the characteristics of the condylarths. </DL>
<A NAME="condyle">
<B>condyle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rounded part that grows out at the end of a bone, articulating with another bone. </DL>
<A NAME="condyloid">
<B>condyloid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or formed like a condyle. </DL>
<A NAME="condyloma">
<B>condyloma, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mas,</B> <B>-mata.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wartlike growth on the skin, usually near the anus or genitals. </DL>
<A NAME="condylomatous">
<B>condylomatous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a condyloma. </DL>
<A NAME="condysfluid">
<B>Condy's fluid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disinfectant made of an aqueous solution of a permanganate. </DL>
<A NAME="cone">
<B>cone, </B>noun, verb, <B>coned,</B> <B>coning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a solid object that has a flat, round base and narrows to a point at the top. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Geometry.) a surface traced by a moving straight line, one point of which is fixed, the opposite end constantly touching a fixed curve. A cone in which the base is a circle and the vertex lies on the perpendicular to the base at the center is called a <I>right circular cone.</I> A cone in which the vertex does not lie on the perpendicular is called an <I>oblique circular cone.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>anything shaped like a cone. <BR> <I>Ex. an ice-cream cone. Smoke and lava erupted from Paricutin as the Western Hemisphere's newest volcano rapidly built its cone (Gordon A. Macdonald).</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>the part that bears the seeds on pine, cedar, fir, and other evergreen trees; strobile. <BR> <I>Ex. Spruces have cones that hang straight downward. Fir trees have cones that stand straight up (K. A. Armson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a fruit resembling this, such as that of a cycad. <DD><B> c. </B>any inflorescence that resembles a cone, such as that of the hop. <DD><B> 5. </B>one of a group of cone-shaped cells of the retina of the eye that respond to light. The cones are sensitive to the bright light of day; the rods are sensitive to dim light. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Machinery.) any of various cone-shaped parts on a lathe, spinning machine, or firearm. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to shape like a cone or part of a cone. adj. <B>coneless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="coneclutch">
<B>cone clutch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a friction clutch with a conical surface of contact between the driving and the driven member. </DL>
<A NAME="coneflower">
<B>coneflower, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a genus of plants of the composite family, having showy flowers with a black or dark cone-shaped center and orange-yellow rays. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various related plants. </DL>
<A NAME="coneincone">
<B>cone-in-cone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) a structure of cones packed one inside another, found in certain sedimentary rocks. Individual cones measure from a fraction of an inch to a few feet in height. </DL>
<A NAME="conelet">
<B>conelet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a little cone. <BR> <I>Ex. Minor eruptions gradually increased the size of the central conelet (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="conelike">
<B>conelike, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the characteristics of a cone. </DL>
<A NAME="conelrad">
<B>Conelrad, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a system formerly used for broadcasting instructions over radio stations by shifting frequencies, going on and off the air irregularly, while keeping enemy aircraft or guided missiles from utilizing the beams of the station for navigation. </DL>
<A NAME="conenose">
<B>conenose, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any hemipterous insect of the genera of assassin bugs, which suck the blood of men and animals, such as the kissing bug of the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="coneofsilence">
<B>cone of silence,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cone-shaped extent of space directly over a radio beacon or radar station in which signals are not heard or detected by aircraft flying overhead. </DL>
<A NAME="conepatl">
<B>conepatl, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Mexico) the hog-nosed skunk. </DL>
