| conductor | | |
| n. (person) | 1. conductor, director, music director | the person who leads a musical group. |
| ~ bandleader | the leader of a dance band. |
| ~ bandmaster | the conductor of a band. |
| ~ drum major | the leader of a marching band or drum corps. |
| ~ drum majorette, majorette | a female drum major. |
| ~ musician | artist who composes or conducts music as a profession. |
| ~ bernstein, leonard bernstein | United States conductor and composer (1918-1990). |
| ~ benjamin britten, britten, edward benjamin britten, lord britten of aldeburgh | major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976). |
| ~ arthur fiedler, fiedler | popular United States conductor (1894-1979). |
| ~ hindemith, paul hindemith | German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963). |
| ~ koussevitzky, serge koussevitzky, sergei aleksandrovich koussevitzky | United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951). |
| ~ constant lambert, leonard constant lambert, lambert | English composer and conductor (1905-1951). |
| ~ gustav mahler, mahler | Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911). |
| ~ eugene ormandy, ormandy | United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985). |
| ~ ozawa, seiji ozawa | United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935). |
| ~ leopold antoni stanislaw stokowski, leopold stokowski, stokowski | United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977). |
| ~ george szell, szell | United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970). |
| ~ arturo toscanini, toscanini | Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957). |
| ~ bruno walter, walter | German conductor (1876-1962). |
| ~ baron karl maria friedrich ernst von weber, carl maria von weber, weber | German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826). |
| ~ sir henry joseph wood, sir henry wood, wood | English conductor (1869-1944). |
| n. (substance) | 2. conductor | a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat. |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| ~ atomic number 29, copper, cu | a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor. |
| ~ ag, atomic number 47, silver | a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography. |
| ~ semiconducting material, semiconductor | a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities. |
| n. (person) | 3. conductor | the person who collects fares on a public conveyance. |
| ~ accumulator, collector, gatherer | a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes). |
| ~ conductress | a woman conductor. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. conductor | a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.. |
| ~ busbar, bus | an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits.; "the busbar in this computer can transmit data either way between any two components of the system" |
| ~ transmission line, cable, line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power. |
| ~ electric cord, cord | a light insulated conductor for household use. |
| ~ device | an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" |
| ~ electrode | a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit. |
| ~ heat sink | a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat. |
| ~ lightning conductor, lightning rod | a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning. |
| ~ semiconductor device, semiconductor unit, semiconductor | a conductor made with semiconducting material. |
| ~ electrical shunt, shunt, bypass | a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current. |
| ~ wave guide, waveguide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves; used in radar. |
| ~ conducting wire, wire | a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance. |
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