English noun: conductor |
| 1. | conductor (person) the person who leads a musical group |
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| Synonyms | director, music director |
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| Broader (hypernym) | musician |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bandleader, bandmaster, drum major, drum majorette, majorette |
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| Instance hyponym | Arthur Fiedler, Arturo Toscanini, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, Benjamin Britten, Bernstein, Britten, Bruno Walter, Carl Maria von Weber, Constant Lambert, Edward Benjamin Britten, Eugene Ormandy, Fiedler, George Szell, Gustav Mahler, Hindemith, Koussevitzky, Lambert, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Constant Lambert, Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski, Leopold Stokowski, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh, Mahler, Ormandy, Ozawa, Paul Hindemith, Seiji Ozawa, Serge Koussevitzky, Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky, Sir Henry Joseph Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Stokowski, Szell, Toscanini, Walter, Weber, Wood |
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| 2. | conductor (substance) a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat |
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| Broader (hypernym) | material, stuff |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Ag, atomic number 29, atomic number 47, copper, Cu, semiconducting material, semiconductor, silver |
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| Antonyms | dielectric, insulator, nonconductor |
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| 3. | conductor (person) the person who collects fares on a public conveyance |
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| Broader (hypernym) | accumulator, collector, gatherer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | conductress |
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| 4. | conductor (artifact) a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. |
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| Broader (hypernym) | device |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bus, busbar, bypass, cable, conducting wire, cord, electric cord, electrical shunt, electrode, heat sink, lightning conductor, lightning rod, line, semiconductor, semiconductor device, semiconductor unit, shunt, transmission line, wave guide, waveguide, wire |
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