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Conduct   /kəndˈəkt/  /kˈɑndəkt/   Listen
Conduct

noun
1.
Manner of acting or controlling yourself.  Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, doings.
2.
(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people.  Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment.
verb
(past & past part. conducted; pres. part. conducting)
1.
Direct the course of; manage or control.  Synonyms: carry on, deal.
2.
Lead, as in the performance of a composition.  Synonyms: direct, lead.
3.
Behave in a certain manner.  Synonyms: acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, deport.  "He bore himself with dignity" , "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
4.
Take somebody somewhere.  Synonyms: direct, guide, lead, take.  "Can you take me to the main entrance?" , "He conducted us to the palace"
5.
Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.  Synonyms: carry, channel, convey, impart, transmit.  "The airwaves carry the sound" , "Many metals conduct heat"
6.
Lead musicians in the performance of.  "She cannot conduct modern pieces"



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"Conduct" Quotes from Famous Books



... instructed in his duty as guest and under a discipline that is merciless so far as conduct toward the population goes; so the two get on better than French and English military authorities feared that they might. Time has taught them to understand each other and to see that difference in ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... Atossa, the evident desire she betrayed to take part in the brilliant life of the capital,—indeed, her whole manner troubled him. It seemed so unaccountable that she should be angry with him for his conduct at the burial of the prophet, that he almost thought she had wished to take advantage of a trifle for the sake of annoying him. He felt that doubt which never comes so suddenly and wounds so keenly as when a man feels the most certain of his ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford
... character, at least the moral value, of human action. His thought in this direction, wherein he anticipated something of modern speculation, is the more remarkable because his scholastic successors accomplished least in the field of morals, hardly venturing to bring the principles and rules of conduct under pure philosophical discussion, even after the great ethical inquiries of AAstotle became fully known to ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... and I to the Coffee-house, where I understand by him that Sir W. Petty and his vessel are coming, and the King intends to go to Portsmouth to meet it. Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, by Mr. Rawlinson's conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys in their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and some things stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which all coming in do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say something, to which ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... boy," resumed Dagobert with emotion, "there is something in thy conduct that savors of constraint, of oppression. I know something of men. He you call superior, whom I saw for some moments after the shipwreck at Cardoville Castle, has a bad look; and I am sorry to see you enrolled under such ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue


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