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Definition: Conduct |
ConductNoun1. Manner of acting or conducting yourself. 2. Behavioral attributes. Verb1. Direct the course of; manage or control; "You cannot conduct business like this". 2. Lead, as in the performance of a musical composition; "conduct an orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years". 3. Behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times". 4. Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, as of sounds or images; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat". 5. Take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace". 6. Lead musicians in the performance of; "Bernstein conducted Mahler like no other conductor"; "she cannot conduct modern pieces". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conduct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Conduct \Con"duct\ (k[o^]n"d[u^]kt), noun. [Late Latin conductus defense, escort, from Latin conductus, past participle of conducere. See Conduce, and compare to Conduit.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs and other musical ensembles often have conductors.
A conductor resident with an orchestra (as opposed to a guest conductor) who has involvement with the policies of an orchestra or opera company is sometimes known as a musical director, or nowadays by the German word Kapellmeister. Respected senior conductors (like senior instrumentalists) are sometimes referred to by the Italian word Maestro.
History of conducting
An early form of conducting is cheironomy, the use of hand gestures to indicate melodic shape. This has been practiced at least as far back as the middle ages. In the Christian church, the person giving these symbols held a staff to signify his role, and it seems that as music became more rhythmically involved, the staff was moved up and down to indicate the beat, acting as an early form of baton.
From around the 17th century other devices to indicate the passing of time were used. Rolled up sheets of paper, smaller sticks and unadorned hands are all shown being used in contemporary pictures. The large staff remained in use at the Paris Opera, and was responsible for the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully - he hit his foot with the staff while conducting, and the wound became gangrenous.
In instrumental music, a single performer usually acted as the conductor. This could be the principal violinist, who used his bow as a baton, or a lutenist who would move the neck of his instrument in time with the beat. It was also common to conduct from the harpsichord in pieces which had a basso continuo part. In opera performances there were sometimes two conductors - one at the keyboard in charge of the singers, and the principal violinist in charge of the orchestra.
By the early 19th century, music had become sufficiently complex that it was desirable to have one person dedicated to conducting, not having to concern himself with performing as well. Accordingly, the baton became more common - this had the added advantage of being easier to see than bare hands or rolled-up paper by the orchestra, which was at this time expanding in size. Among the earliest notable conductors were Louis Spohr, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn, all of them also composers.
Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner were also conductors, and they wrote two of the earliest essays dedicated to the subject. Wagner was largely responsible for shaping the conductor's role as somebody who imposes his own view of a piece onto the performance rather than somebody who is simply responsible for ensuring entires are made at the right time and that there is a unified beat.
Conducting technique
The right hand, with or without a baton, indicates the beat by tracing out one of a number of standard patterns depending on the time signature. In duple time, a simple down-up pattern is usual, in triple time the basic pattern is down-right-up and in quadruple time the pattern is down-left-right-up. In each case, a downward motion indicates the initial beat of the bar (the down beat).
The movement of the right hand is usually fluid, although by making the movement more or less jerky a greater or lesser indication of staccato can be conveyed.
The left hand is typically used to indicate changes in dynamics and can convey other indications of expression. A pointing gesture can indicate an entry, though this can also be conveyed by the conductor simply looking at the player about to come in. Facial expressions can also be used to convey expression.
See also: List of famous conductors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Conducting."
Synonyms: ConductSynonyms: behavior (n), behaviour (n), demeanor (n), demeanour (n), deportment (n), doings (n), acquit (v), bear (v), behave (v), carry (v), carry on (v), channel (v), comport (v), convey (v), deal (v), deport (v), direct (v), guide (v), lead (v), take (v), transmit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Action | Employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand; (business); labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course; (conduct). |
Conduct | Noun: conduct; behavior; deportment, comportment; carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance. |
Course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method; path. | |
Conduct; manage, supervise; (direct). | |
Bear oneself, behave oneself, comport oneself, demean oneself, carry oneself, conduct oneself, acquit oneself. | |
Direction | Verb: direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle |
Noun: direction; management, managery; government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance; bossism; legislature; steerage, pilotage; reins, reins of government; helm, rudder, needle, compass; guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star; cynosure. | |
Verb: tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine. | |
Discourtesy | Disrespect; procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_, brusquerie; vulgarity,. |
Inquiry | Investigate; take up an inquiry, pursue an inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry, carry out an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry; Noun: look at, look into; preexamine; discuss, canvass, agitate. |
Method | Noun: method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise; modus operandi, MO; procedure; (line of conduct). |
Plan | Role; policy; (line of conduct). |
Transference | Verb: transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote; port, import, export. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conduct |
| English words defined with "conduct": Conduct money ♦ Distinguished Conduct Medal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conduct": Letter of Safe Conduct. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "conduct": Morigerous. (references) |
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Screenplays | I have two books at my bedside, Lieutenant: the Marine Corps Code of Conduct and the King James Bible (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) I don't know if it's possible, but could you people conduct the psychopath convention down the hall (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Am I supposed to conduct with my penis (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) My little box of war memorials with my sharp-shooters badge, my good conduct medal, purple heart and that piece of Kraut shrapnel the medics took out of my butt (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Miss Conduct (1968) Infamous Conduct (1966) Disorderly Conduct (1932) The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde (1915) Lewed Conduct 11 (2001) | |
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 | Serial dilutions of antigens on antibodies are performed in wells of a microtiter tray containing tissue culturSerial dilutions of antigens on antibodies are performed in wells of a microtiter tray containing tissue culture media used to grow cells in media. They are used to conduct tests on small amounts of cells. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Apollo 11 Crew Conduct Checks in the Command Module. Credit: NASA. |
 | Training Liberians to conduct triangulation Combined operations party of George Morris. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Workers dressed in full hazmat gear conduct research to determine the level of contaminants or PCB levels. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Launching a meteorological kite on the PRINCESS ALICE. This ship was the earliest to conduct upper-air studies at sea. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912. Figure 21, p. 28. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Filling a meteorological kite with hydrogen on the PRINCESS ALICE. This ship was the earliest to conduct upper-air studies at sea. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912. Figure 23, p. 30. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | NRCS technicians conduct irrigation test to study the infiltration rates of water on various soils. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Stacy Mitchell, NRCS Public Affairs Specialist, and National Park Service employee conduct a plant survey in Glacier National Park, MT. [Slide 97CS3043]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Photographed in civilian dress, probably during or soon after the Civil War. He was promoted to the rank of Commander on 10 June 1864 "for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the torpedo boat Squib in passing through the enemy's fleet off Newport News on the night of April 9, 1864, and attacking the steam frigate Minnesota". Credit: NAVY. |  | Who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism and distinguished conduct in action while serving as Commanding Officer of USS Vestal (AR-4) during the 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. Halftone reproduction, copied from the official publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1948, The Navy", page 285. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander The Great | Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. |
Junius | The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing. |
Oscar Wilde | Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. |
Samuel Johnson | Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. |
Thomas Carlyle | Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. |
Thomas Jefferson | When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And when, being weary of the ill conduct of Samuel's sons, the children of Israel desired a king, like all the nations to judge them, and to go out before them, and to fight their battles, I. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | This oath certainly applies, in an especial manner, to their conduct in their official character. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | There shall be a Director of the International Labour Office, who shall be appointed by the Governing Body, and, subject to the instructions of the Governing Body, shall be responsible for the efficient conduct of the International Labour Office and for such other duties as may be assigned to him. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It is necessary that constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, and the grand simplicity of decision shall guide and rule the conduct of the English-speaking peoples in peace as they did in war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1955) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Respect for right conduct is felt by every body |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The more he examined the conduct of this girl, the more he revolted at it. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Good lords, conduct him to his regiment |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | From this way of reasoning the author drew several moral applications useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to repeat |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Conduct meetings that are mainly "gripe" sessions. (references) | |
Conduct or provide a rating system on any medical device it regulates. (references) | ||
Conduct controlled studies to determine and test optimal antifungal therapies. (references) | ||
Business | No rules exist to govern the selection or conduct of this committee. (references) | |
Saudi businessmen prefer to conduct their business on a very personal level. (references) | ||
On major contracts, it is advisable to have a representative conduct such bargaining. (references) | ||
Children | India | The NGO's received UNICEF assistance in training teachers to conduct transitional education for a target group of 45,000 5- to 9-year-old children. (references) |
Kiribati | Foreign-based aid workers and the World Health Organization cooperate with the Ministry of Health to conduct outer island workshops for health workers. (references) | |
Congo | In partnership with UNICEF, in September the Government planned to conduct a survey of the extent of child labor and its effects on the society; the results were not available by year's end. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Laos | Over 250 Protestant congregations conduct services throughout the country. (references) |
Macau | Missionaries are free to conduct missionary activities and are active in the enclave. (references) | |
Benin | University professors are permitted to lecture freely, conduct research, and publish their work. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | Facsimile machines are heavily utilized in the conduct of business. (references) |
Botswana | The legal system is sufficient to conduct secure commercial dealings. (references) | |
Georgia | Only licensed banks are permitted to conduct hard currency transactions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | It did not conduct human rights monitoring. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | Civilian courts conduct trials involving state security. (references) | |
Canada | Police no longer are authorized to conduct body cavity searches. (references) | |
Minorities | Romania | Police in both cases failed to conduct onsite investigations. (references) |
Turkmenistan | While Russian remained common in commerce and everyday life, during the year, the Government has intensified its campaign to conduct official business solely in Turkmen. (references) | |
Vietnam | Previously, all classroom instruction was required by law to be conducted in the Vietnamese language, but the Government began a program to conduct classes in the local language up to grade five. (references) | |
Political Economy | Panama | Police conduct toward public protesters was restrained. (references) |
BULGARIA | Most commercial banks are licensed to conduct currency operations abroad. (references) | |
Samoa | Societal pressures and customary law may interfere with the ability to conduct fair trials. (references) | |
Political Rights | Nigeria | The INEC issued a report on the conduct of the election in July 1999 that documented the fraud. (references) |
Tajikistan | State organs, particularly regional and local administration officials, interfered in the preparations for and conduct of the elections. (references) | |
Tajikistan | There were particular problems with the independence of election commissions and the conduct of the vote count and tabulation of results. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | WEKO also will be permitted to call witnesses and to conduct searches. (references) |
Switzerland | Major shareholders of a bank can also be held liable for improper conduct by the bank. (references) | |
Italy | In practice, all commer-cial banks are authorized to conduct foreign exchange transactions. (references) | |
Travel | Brazil | While many Brazilians may speak English, they may wish to conduct business in Portuguese. (references) |
Egypt | Unfamiliar paperwork processes and bureaucratic procedures make business conduct somewhat slow in Egypt. (references) | |
Philippines | It is acceptable for businessmen to conduct calls in short or long-sleeved shirt and ties without a coat. (references) | |
Women | Guyana | The officers who received training are to conduct outreach for their fellow officers. (references) |
Singapore | The Women's Charter gives women, among other rights, the right to own property, conduct trade, and receive divorce settlements. (references) | |
Bahamas | Government and private women's organizations conduct public awareness campaigns highlighting the problems of abuse and domestic violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bangladesh | Criminal gangs conduct some of the trafficking in persons. (references) |
Zimbabwe | It is very difficult to conduct legal collective job action. (references) | |
Fiji | The inspectors are mandated to conduct regular annual inspections. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. |
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Colin Powell | Military men always understand that there will be casualties, and you should never go into a conflict thinking it will be casualty-free or trying to conduct it casualty-free. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | Hitherto, therefore, nothing is discoverable in the conduct of France which ought to change or relax our measures of defense. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | At least they will be my standard of conduct in the path before me. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Purposes, therefore, at once just and pacific will be significantly marked in the conduct of our foreign affairs. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Since its very outset, it has been found necessary to conduct our Government by means of political parties. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Business is a public trust and must adhere to national standards in the conduct of its affairs. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | While this invasion continues, we and the other nations of the world cannot conduct business as usual with the Soviet Union. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Through stricter accounting standards and tougher disclosure requirements, corporate America must be made more accountable to employees and shareholders and held to the highest standards of conduct. |
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| "Conduct" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.58% of the time. "Conduct" is used about 3,813 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.58% | 2,691 | 3,412 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 23.92% | 912 | 7,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.37% | 205 | 21,272 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.1% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,813 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conduct": code of conduct ♦ conduct an affair ♦ conduct an investigation ♦ Conduct Disorder ♦ conduct mark ♦ conduct marks ♦ Conduct money ♦ conduct one's own defence ♦ conduct oneself ♦ conduct sheet ♦ conduct smb.'s defence ♦ correct conduct ♦ disorderly conduct ♦ distinguished Conduct Medal ♦ exemplary conduct ♦ improper conduct ♦ insufferable conduct ♦ line of conduct ♦ manner of conduct ♦ right conduct ♦ rule of conduct ♦ safe conduct ♦ unruly conduct. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "conduct": conduct-based, conduct-book. | |
Ending with "conduct": coat-and-conduct. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conduct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lei (direct, guide, head, lead), houding (attitude, behaviour, deportment, position), bestuur (direct, guide, lead, manage, steer). (various references) | |
Albanian | udhëheq (direct, fugle, guide, head, lead, pilot, pioneer), tregoj rrugën (lead on), transmetoj (air, broadcast, communicate, give, pipe, put across, reach, relay, telecast, translate, transmit), sjellje (bearing, behavior, behaviour, deal, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, going on, goings on, line, manner, manners, posture), përcjell (accompany, escort, give, refer, see off, walk), përçoj (convey, herd), drejtoj (address, administer, administrate, aim, aim at, align, Aline, bend, boss, canalize, Cann, carry on, chair, channel, command, con, direct, drive, funnel, govern, guide, head, keep, lead, level, manage, navigate, operate, order, pilot, point, preside, rectify, refer, rein, relegate, rule, set, shirk, shoot, show, shunt, superintend, supervise, tend, train, unbend, vector), drejtim (accost, administration, course, direction, directorship, disposal, drift, guide, headship, helm, lead, leadership, lie, line, management, manual, operation, orientation, quarter, rectification, regimen, resort, run, set, steerage, supervision, tenor, trend, vector, way), administrim (administration, husbandry, management, stewardship). (various references) | |
Arabic | قيادة (command, control, direction, drive, driving, guidance, lead, leadership, leading, steer, steerage), قاد (carry, command, direct, drive, drove, govern, guide, handle, head, helm, induct, introduce, lead, lead in, lead up to, marshal, mastermind, navigate, officer, orientate, pilot, preside, run, see out, shepherd, show, show out, steer, take the lead, usher), وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), تولى (assume, undertake), تصرف (action, behave, behavior, behaviour, carry, carry on, comport, conduct oneself, demeanor, demeanour, deport, deport oneself, deportment, disposal, fend, make, make shift, manage, mark out, proceed, rustle up), سلوك (action, antics, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, course, demeanor, demeanour, goings on, habit, manner, performance, walk), السيرة (career), إدارة (administration, department, direction, directorate, dispensation, executive, helm, husbandry, management, operation, rotation, running, stewardship, superintendence, trust), أدى (bring, bring about, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, function, give rise to, go, perform, put on, result), دبر (administer, brew, cogitate, concoct, contrive, devise, engineer, lay, prepare, set, spare). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | водене (lead, prosecution), държане (bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, dealing, keeping, manner, play, port, presence), поведение (bearing, behavior, behaviour, counsel, courses, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, goings on, play), повеждам (drive, lead, take the lead), провеждам (carry through, instrument, pursue, put through, run off, transact, wage), ескорт (convoy, escort, guard, suite), дирижирам (direct, lead), завеждам (be head, bring, induct, initiate, land, run, superintend, take, take over), съпровождам (accompany, escort, usher in), водя (carry on, deliver, go, guide, keep, lead, manage, pilot, prevent, prosecute, pursue, take, usher in, wage), конвой (convoy, escort, guard, train), трактовка (conduct sheet, treatment), ръководене (leadership), ръководя (administer, administrate, be in charge of, boss, carry on, control, direct, guide, keep, lead, manage, mastermind, moderate, oversee, pioneer, rule, run, supervise, tutor, work), ръководство (administration, direction, directory, governance, guidance, guide, handbook, lead, leadership, management, running, supervision, textbook, tutelage, tutorage, tutorship), ескортирам (escort). (various references) | |
Chinese | 行為 (action, activity, behavior), 行 (a row, all right, behavior, capable, competent, OK, okay, profession, professional, temporary, to do, to go, to travel, to walk, will do), 作為 (accomplish, action, to look upon, to regard), 作戰 , "行, " (good, grade, product, thing). (various references) | |
Czech | chování (bearing, behavior, behaviour, demeanour, goings on, manner, mien), vedení (conduction, conduit, direction, government, guidance, lead, leadership, line), vést (administer, captain, carry on, channel, conduce, convey, direct, give, go, head, keep, lead, look, run, Shepherd, spearhead, steer, stock, supervise, throw, wage, walk, wheel), svést (allure, debauch, misguide, pervert, seduce), poèínání, dirigovat (conduct oneself, control, lead), řízení (control, controls, direction, government, guidance, management, operation, steering), řídit (administrate, control, direct, drive, fly, govern, guide, handle, head, keep, lead, manage, manoeuvre, navigate, operate, order, pilot, preside, regulate, steer, supervise, wield). (various references) | |
Danish | opførsel (behaviour, deportment), føre (guide, lead). (various references) | |
Dutch | geleiden (direct, guide, head, lead), leiden (direct, guide, head, lead, Leiden, Leyden), gedrag (behaviour, deportment). (various references) | |
Esperanto | konduto (behavior, behaviour, deportment), konduki (guide, lead), gvidi (direct, guide, head, lead). (various references) | |
Faeroese | stýra (direct, guide, head, lead, navigate), leiða (direct, guide, head, lead), føra (guide, lead). (various references) | |
Farsi | هدایت کردن (Direct, Lead, Rede, Steer), سلوک (Behavior, Demeanour), اداره کردن (Address, Administer, Chairman, Direct, Engineer, Execute, Keep, Man, Manage, Manipulate, Moderate, Officiate, Operate, Rule, Run, Wield), رفتار (Behavior, Comport, Comportment, Demarche, Demeanour, Ethic, Gesture, Manner, Treatment), بردن (Abstract, Bear, Carry, Convey, Drive, Horse, Lead, Pack, Port, Portage, Propel, Remove, Snatch, Steer, Take, Transport, Win). (various references) | |
Finnish | opastaa (direct, guide, head, instruct, introduce into, lead, show in, show the way). (various references) | |
French | diriger (control), conduire, comportement (course). (various references) | |
Frisian | oanstjoere (direct, guide, head, lead, manage, steer), liede (direct, guide, head, lead). (various references) | |
German | leiten (achieve, act, administer, boss, carry, carry out, chair, channel, control, convey, determine, direct, divert, do, funnel, govern, guide, head, head up, lead, make, manage, perform, pilot, pipe, route, run, send, to lead), verhalten (bated, be, bearings, behavior, behaviour, comportment, contain, control, curb, demeanors, deportment, hold, manner, measured, muted, reaction, restrain, restrained, stealthy, stop, suppressed), führen (administer, be in the lead, bear, captain, carry, command, control, direct, drive, feed, fly, go, guide, have a record of, head, head up, keep, lead, lead along, levy, live, manage, Marshal, open, operate, operation, pilot, ply, preside, run, sail, sell, Shepherd, shepherding, steer, stock, take, to guide, wage, walk, wield), benehmen (behave, behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, discipline, manner, manners, take away), dirigieren (channel, direct, guide, lead, manage, navigate, steer), betragen (amount, amount to, be, behavior, behaviour, demeanor, deportment, to account for, to amount). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπεριφορά (attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, behaviour towards, comportment, manners, port), διεξάγω (prosecute, transact, wage), διαγωγή (behavior, behaviour). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעש" (act, action, deed, doing, fact, incident, manufacture, occupation, occurrence, practice, thing), מ "' (custom, groove, habit, manner, order, usage, way), ל""ריך (direct, educate, guide, instruct, pilot, steer, tutor), ל "ל (administer, boss, direct, keep, lead, manage, master, run), ל "ו' (be current, be in force, behave toward, direct, drive, lead, steer, treat), "ליכ" (gait, tread, walk), "ת"לכות (deportment, gait, walking), "ת "'ות (bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, demeanour, deportment), ו"' (custom, habit, practice, praxis, procedure, usage), "ול (conducting, direction, leading, management). (various references) | |
Hungarian | viselkedés (air, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, comportment, countenance, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, front, goings on, goings-on, habit, morals, splurge, such behaviour is not quite the potato), magaviselet (behavior, behaviour), igazgatás (administration, direction, leading, ruling). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hegðun (behaviour, deportment), framkoma (behaviour, deportment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | laku (salable, SELL WELL). (various references) | |
Italian | guidare (direct, drive, guide, head, lead, manage, pilot, ride, rule, run, sail, Shepherd, steer), condurre (bring, carry out, conduce, direct, drive, guide, head, lead, manage, take, wage, work), condotta (behavior, behaviour, deportment, direction, ongoings), comportamento (actions, bearing, behave, behavior, behaviour, comportment, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, ongoings). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 挙動 (behavior), 勤め振り (assiduity), 処世 , "行 (deportment), 所作 (gesture), 振る舞い (behavior), "行 (behaviour, deportment), 振舞い (behavior), 身持ち (behavior, pregnant), 嚮導 (guidance, lead), 行い (action, asceticism, behavior, deed), 行動 (action, behaviour, mobilization), 行ない (action, asceticism, behavior, deed), 行為 (act, deed), 行為 (act, deed), 振舞 (behavior). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | お"ない (action, asceticism, behavior, deed), そう"う (achievement, armored, bustle, deportment, document transmission, draft, efficacy, fruition, hatch, hatchway, hurry, manuscript, meanwhile, notes, plain food, rousing, running a wheeled vehicle, simple living, success, traveling), しょさ (gesture), きょうどう (association, co-action, collaboration, cooperation, guidance, instruction, joint, lead, sutra library, teaching), きょどう (behavior), しょせい (all phases of government, famous or accomplished calligrapher, firstborn, first-produced, houseboy, newborn, political affairs, student), ひ""う (behaviour, deportment, low-grade ore), ふるまい (behavior), つとめぶり (assiduity), "うどう (action, auditorium, behaviour, brass, ecliptic, filial piety, justice, level, mobilization, public road, the benevolent Imperial rule, the Imperial Way, traditional incense-smelling game, tunnel, you, your beautiful home), "うい (act, celestial latitude, change of dress, courtesy, deed, dignity, ecliptic latitude, eminent, favor, good will, high ranking, imperial throne, kindness, lady court attendant, school doctor, seasonal changing of clothes, second accession of the same emperor, second lunar month, siege), みもち (behavior, pregnant). (various references) | |
Korean | 행위 (Act, ACT++, ACTS). (various references) | |
Malay | pimpin (direct, guide, head, lead). (various references) | |
Manx | leeideil (captain, captain as team, direct, lead, leading), gurneiley, aghtey (act, behave). (various references) | |
Norwegian | oppførsel (behaviour, demeanour, deportment). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kondukta (behaviour, deportment), komportashon (behaviour, deportment). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onductcay.(various references) | |
Polish | prowadzić (direct, guide, head, lead), kierować (direct, guide, head, lead). (various references) | |
Portuguese | conduta (actions, behavior, behaviour, course, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, goings-on, life, management, manner, manners, ongoings, tack, way), comportamento (actions, bearing, behaviorism, behaviour, behaviourism, carriage, course, dealing, demean, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, moral, ongoings, proceeding, walking), dirigir (control, direct, dominate, drive, give over, govern, guide, head, helm, lead, manage, marshal, oversee, pilot, preside, refer, restrain, rule, steer, superintend, supervise, throw), conduzir (bring, carry, conduce, drive, guide, head, lead, leading, manage, officer, run, steer, take, transmit, transport). (various references) | |
Romanian | ghida (direct, guide, head, lead, manage, pilot, steer), conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, carry on, charge, command, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, restrain, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield). (various references) | |
Russian | управлять (administer, administrate, be in control, be in control of, boss, command, control, govern, have control over, helm, husband, manage, managed, managing, master, mastermind, move, navigate, navigating, operate, rein, run, run the show, sail, steer, superintend, take control of), управление (administration, control, control of, direction, governance, government, guidance, handling, management, office, operation, run, steerage, steering, stewardship, superintendence), сопровождать (accompany, attend, chaperon, convoy, go along with, go with), руководить (fugle, guide, lead, manage, master, rule, run, run by), развозить (separate, take), водить, вести (guide, head, lead, navigate, pioneer, prosecute, transact), ведение дела (prosecution, transaction), проводить поведение, проводить (carry, draw, hold in, hosted, lead, sideswipe, usher in, wage), поведение (actions, bearing, behavior, behaviour, comportment, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doing, goings on, ongoings), дирижировать. (various references) | |
Scottish | beus (behaviour, habit, virtue). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | voditi (direct, guide, keep, lead, stand, take, wage), vladanje, sprovesti (carry out, carry through, convey, escort, instal, install, lead, put in, put through, take), ponašanje (behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, do, havings, manner), dirigovati (lead). (various references) | |
Spanish | dirigir (address, aim, boss, command, direct, drive, edit, guide, head, head up, keep, lead, level, manage, mastermind, operate, pilot, play, point, produce, shine, stagemanage, steer, superintend, supervise, top), conducir (bring, drive, drive along, driving, fly, go, guide, handle, lead, lead up, navigate, pilot, ride, show, steer, take, take the lead, transport, travel), guiar (beacon, direct, drive, govern, guide, head, lead, manage, navigate, steer, train), conducta (actions, bearing, behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doings, freightage, haulage, manner, portage, transport), comportamiento (actions, behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, ongoing). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppförande (behavior, behaviour, building, construction, dealing, demeanour, deportment, erection, performance), föra (assign, bear, bring, carry, carry oneself, convey, drive, fly, guide, handle, keep, lead, leed, pass, remove, sail, sell, take), dirigera (direct), beteende (behavior, behaviour, deportment). (various references) | |
Tagalog | gawî (behaviour, deportment), agalì (behaviour, deportment). (various references) | |
Turkish | yönlendirmek (canalize, direct, divert, guide, head, incline, lead, Orient, orientate, parlay, process, prompt, shape, shoo, stage, steer, sway), yönetmek (administer, administrate, boss, captain, celebrate, chair, command, direct, edit, govern, head, lead, oversee, police, preside, produce, rule, run, run the show, steer, supervise), yönetim (admin, administration, direction, executive, governance, government, helm, management, rudder, ruling, steering, the man), rehberlik etmek (guide), iletmek (carry off, convey, deliver, get over, hand in, put across, transfer, transmit), idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise), idare (admin, administration, chancellery, control, disposition, dominion, economy, government, handling, helm, management, mastery, regimen, rein, rule, ruling, sparing, steerage, steering, stewardship, supervision, sway, thrift, wire), hareket (achievement, act, action, bearing, behavior, behaviour, demeanour, deportment, gesture, locomotion, motion, move, movement, play, setout, starting, step, stroke), gidiş (departure, deportment, Gill, go, going, outgoing, process, sequence, tenor), geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, communicate, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), davranış (act, action, attitude, bearing, behavior, behavioral, behaviour, behavioural, deal, dealing, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, doings, form, manner, proceeding, stroke, treatment, turn, way). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яцretmek (establish, guide), яazlamak (guide, lead), цzьni alyp baryю (behavior), geзirmek (run). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | супровід (accompaniment, convoy), супроводити (accompany, be, companion, company, convoy, follow, go with), керувати (administer, administrate, boss, captain, control, direct, govern, guide, helm, lead, manage, prevent, quarterback, rule, run, run the show, steer, tutor), керування (administration, control, government, management), вести (captain, guide, lead, lead up, pilot, pioneer, prosecute, transact), поведінка (bearing, behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, gest, goings on, ongoing, proceeding, walk, walking), перепустка (billet, chit, countersign, order, password, permit, protection, word), диригувати (direct). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cách cư xử sự chỉ đạo, tư cách (reference), sự hướng dẫn (lead, leading), sự điều khiển (direction, helm), hạnh kiểm, đạo đức (righteous). (various references) | |
Welsh | arwain (carry, direct, guide, lead). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acta, actu, actum, acturi, acturum, acturus, actus, administrabuntur, administrantem, administrantes, administraretur, administrasset, administrat, admovebat, admovens, admovere, admoveri, admovissent, admovit, agam, agamus, agant, agantur, agar, agarenos, agareos, agas, agat, agatis, agatur, age, agebant, agebat, agebatur, agendo, agendum, agens, agent, agente, agentes, agentibus, agentis, agentium, agere, agerent, agerentur, ageret, ageretur, ages, aget, agetis, agi, agimus, agis, agit, agite, agitur, ago, agunt, aguntur, ars, ars; artis, ducere, egerant, egerat, egere, egerim, egerimus, egerint, egeris, egerit, egeritis, egerunt, egeruntque, egi, egimus, egissent, egisset, egisti, egistis, egit, eleganter, gubernabat, gubernans, gubernantis, gubernare, gubernat, gubernator, gubernatorum, gubernatur, gubernavit, induco, moderor, mores, morium, mores; morium, perduc, perducatis, perducatque, perducebant, perducere, perducerent, perducet, perduci, perduco, perductus, perducunt, perduxerunt, perduxi, perduxisset, perduxit, se gero. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýâtem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 33, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai legei proV auton ei mh autoV su poreuh mh me anagaghV enteuqen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et ait Moses si non tu ipse praecedes ne educas nos de loco isto |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Moyses seith, If thow thi silf gost not before, ne lede thow vs fro this place; in what forsothe mowen we knowe, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sayde: yf thi presence goo not with me, carye us not hense |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he said to him, If thy presence shall not attend me, conduct us not hence. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Exodus Chapter 33, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya miingon kaniya: Kong ang imong presencia dili magauban kanako, dili mo kami pagkuhaon dinhi. |
| Chinese | 摩 西 說 、 若 不 親 自 ' 我 同 去 、 就 不 要 把 我 們 從 這 裡 上 去 。 |
| Croatian | "Ako ti ne poðeš", nadoda Mojsije, "odavde nas i ne izvodi. |
| Danish | Da sagde Moses til ham: "Hvis dit Åsyn ikke vandrer med, så lad os ikke drage herfra! |
| Dutch | Toen zeide hij tot Hem: Indien Uw aangezicht niet medegaan zal, doe ons van hier niet optrekken! |
| Finnish | Hän vastasi hänelle: "Elleivät sinun kasvosi käy meidän kanssamme, niin älä johdata meitä täältä pois. |
| French | Moïse lui dit: Si tu ne marches pas toi-même avec nous, ne nous fais point partir d`ici. |
| German | Er aber sprach zu ihm: Wo nicht dein Angesicht vorangeht, so führe uns nicht von dannen hinauf. |
| Haitian Creole | Moyiz di l': -Si se pa ou menm menm k'ap mache avè nou, ou pa bezwen kite nou soti isit la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jawab Musa, "Kalau TUHAN tidak ikut dengan kami, jangan suruh kami meninggalkan tempat ini. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sembah Musa kepada Tuhan: Jikalau tiada Engkau sendiri pergi besama-sama, maka jangan apalah Engkau membawa akan kami naik dari sini. |
| Italian | Riprese: «Se tu non camminerai con noi, non farci salire di qui. |
| Maori | Na ka mea ia ki a ia, Ki te kahore tou aroaro e haere, kaua matou e kawea ki runga i konei. |
| Norwegian | Men han sa til ham: Dersom ditt åsyn ikke går med, da la oss ikke dra op herfra! |
| Portuguese | Então Moisés lhe disse: Se tu mesmo não fores conosco, não nos faças subir daqui. |
| Rumanian | Moise i -a zis: ,,Dacq nu mergi Tu knsuyi cu noi, nu ne lqsa sq plecqm de aici. |
| Swedish | Han svarade honom: "Om du icke själv vill gå med, så låt oss alls icke draga upp härifrån. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conduct": conductance, conductances, conducted, conductibilities, conductibility, conductible, conductimetric, conducting, conduction, conductions, conductive, conductivities, conductivity, conductometric, conductor, conductorial, conductors, conductress, conductresses, conducts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "conduct": misconduct, superconduct. (additional references) | |
Words containing "conduct": misconducted, misconducting, misconducts, multiconductor, nonconducting, nonconduction, nonconductions, nonconductive, nonconductor, nonconductors, photoconductive, photoconductivities, photoconductivity, semiconducting, semiconductor, semiconductors, superconducted, superconducting, superconductive, superconductivities, superconductivity, superconductor, superconductors, superconducts. (additional references) | |
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"Conduct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonduc, condact, condict, Condotti, condu, conducta, confust, conjuct, Conodonta, Contucci, couduct, fonduta, Tondut. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conduct" (pronounced kundu"kt or kÄ"ndukt) |
| 5 | -n d u" k t | induct. |
| 4 | -d u" k t | abduct, deduct, ducked, duct. |
| 3 | -u" k t | bucked, chucked, construct, deconstruct, destruct, instruct, obstruct, plucked, reconstruct, shucked, sucked, trucked, tucked. |
| 7 | k Ä" n d u k t | misconduct. |
| 4 | -d u k t | byproduct, product, viaduct. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-n-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: count, donut. | |
-3 letters: duct, dunt, unco, undo, unto. | |
-4 letters: cod, con, cot, cud, cut, doc, don, dot, dun, duo, nod, not, nut, oud, out, tod, ton, tun, udo. | |
-5 letters: do, no, nu, od, on, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: conducts. | |
+2 letters: accounted, conducted, conductor. | |
+3 letters: conducting, conduction, conductive, conductors, misconduct. | |
+4 letters: coeducation, conductance, conductible, conductions, conductress, conjectured, constructed, cotransduce, deconstruct, misconducts, unaccounted, uncollected, unconnected, uncorrected. | |
+5 letters: claudication, coeducations, communicated, conductances, conductivity, conductorial, conduplicate, coproduction, cotransduced, cotransduces, countenanced, counteracted, deconstructs, misconducted, nonconductor, superconduct, unaccustomed, uncontracted, undemocratic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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