conductor

IPA: kʌndˈʌktɝ

One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
(music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
(rail transport) A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.
(physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.
(mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
(architecture) A leader.

Examples of "conductor" in Sentences

She says choosing a conductor is always a huge leap of faith.
The orchestra conductor is a violinist who has conducted in both the United States and China.
The latter, she decided, would be unfair to the train conductor, and neither would be good for the family.
In other words, the credit card industry will need to find a new train conductor if they want to keep railroading consumers into lawless corporate tribunals.
The conductor not indicating anything during this period (rendered somewhat considerable by the extreme slowness of the movement), the players are then entirely left to themselves, _without conductor_; and as the rhythmical feeling is not the same with all, it follows that some hurry, while others slacken, and unity is soon destroyed.
The effects to be considered _depend on the conductor_ employed to complete the communication between the zinc and copper plates of the electromotor; and I shall have to consider this conductor under four different forms: as the helix of an electro-magnet (1056); as an ordinary helix (1053, &c.); as a _long_ extended wire, having its course such that the parts can exert little or no mutual influence; and as a _short_ wire.