Conduct vs Achieve - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between conduct and achieve

is that conduct is to carry out (something organized while achieve is to obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

In intransitive terms the difference between conduct and achieve

is that conduct is to act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry while achieve is to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

As verbs the difference between conduct and achieve

is that conduct is to lead, or guide; to escort while achieve is to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

As a noun conduct

is the act or method of controlling or directing.

conduct

English

Noun

(-)

The act or method of controlling or directing

* 1785 , (William Paley), The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

There are other restrictions imposed upon the conduct of war, not by the law of nature primarily, but by the laws of war first, and by the law of nature as seconding and ratifying the laws of war.

* Ld. Brougham

the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs

Skillful guidance or management; generalship.

Conduct of armies is a prince's art. - .

* Robertson

with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct , that his forces were totally routed.

The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.

Good conduct''' will be rewarded and likewise poor '''conduct will be punished.

* Macaulay

All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury.

* Dryden

What in the conduct of our life appears / So well designed, so luckily begun, / But when we have our wish, we wish undone?

(of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.

* Macaulay

the book of Job, in conduct and diction

(obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.

* Ben Jonson

I will be your conduct .

* Shakespeare

In my conduct shall your ladies come.

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

* Shakespeare

although thou hast been conduct of my chame

Synonyms

* (act or method of controlling or directing ) control, guidance, management * (manner of guiding or carrying one's self ): bearing, behavior/behaviour, deportment, demeanor/demeanour, * (plot of a literary work) action, plot, storyline

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To lead, or guide; to escort.

* 1634 , (John Milton),

I can conduct you, lady, to a low / But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.

To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on.

to conduct the affairs of a kingdom

Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege.

(reflexively to conduct oneself ) To behave.

He conducted himself well.

To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.

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(music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

* 2006 , Michael R. Waters with Mark Long and William Dickens, Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne

For a while, Walter Pohlmann, a well-known German conductor, conducted' the orchestra in Compound 3. Later, Willi Mets, who had '''conducted''' the world-renowned Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, ' conducted the Compound 3 orchestra.

To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

To carry out (something organized)

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Synonyms

* (lead or guide) accompany, escort, guide, lead, steer, belead * (direct) direct, lead, manage, oversee, run, supervise, belead * act, behave, carry on * (to serve as a medium for conveying) carry, convey, transmit

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* English heteronyms

achieve

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Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete )

Verb

(achiev)

To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

* I. Taylor

Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.

(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:

Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].

To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

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* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

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* (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v

Some are born great, some achieve greatness.

Thou hast achieved our liberty.

(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.

* Prior

Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .

* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i

He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.

Synonyms

* accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplish

Derived terms

* achievement * achiever

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