Conduct vs Channel - What's the difference?
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The act or method of controlling or directing
* 1785 , (William Paley), The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
* Ld. Brougham
Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
* Robertson
The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
* Macaulay
* Dryden
(of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
* Ben Jonson
* Shakespeare
That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To lead, or guide; to escort.
* 1634 , (John Milton),
To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on.
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(reflexively to conduct oneself ) To behave.
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
To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
To carry out (something organized)
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The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
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The navigable part of a river.
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
That through which anything passes; means of conveying or transmitting.
* Dalton
* Burke
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
(nautical, in the plural) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
(electronics) A connection between initiating]] and [[terminate, terminating nodes of a circuit.
(electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
(broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xi
(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
(business, marketing) A distribution channel
(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chatroom and often dedicated to a specific topic.
(Internet) An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
* 1999 , Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide
* 1999 , Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference
A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
To direct the flow of something.
To assume the personality of another person, typically a historic figure, in a theatrical or paranormal presentation.
(nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains.
As a noun conduct
is the act or method of controlling or directing.As a verb conduct
is (archaic|transitive) to lead, or guide; to escort.As a proper noun channel is
(by ellipsis) the english channel.conduct
English
Noun
(-)- 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.
- the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs
- Conduct of armies is a prince's art. - .
- with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct , that his forces were totally routed.
- Good conduct''' will be rewarded and likewise poor '''conduct will be punished.
- All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury.
- What in the conduct of our life appears / So well designed, so luckily begun, / But when we have our wish, we wish undone?
- the book of Job, in conduct and diction
- I will be your conduct .
- In my conduct shall your ladies come.
- 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, storylineVerb
(en verb)- I can conduct you, lady, to a low / But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.
- to conduct the affairs of a kingdom
- Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege.
- He conducted himself well.
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- 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.
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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, transmitStatistics
* English heteronymschannel
English
(wikipedia channel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) chenel (French: '', ''chenal ), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- ''The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel .
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- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- We were careful to keep our boat in the channel .
- The English Channel lies between France and England.
- The news was conveyed to us by different channels .
- The veins are converging channels .
- At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
- The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
- A channel stretches between them.
- We are using one of the 24 channels .
- The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
- Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
- KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
- NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns),
- This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
- The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel .
- Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.
- To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.
Synonyms
* (narrow body of water between two land masses) passage, sound, strait * (for television) side , station (US)Derived terms
* channel-hopping * change the channel * ion channel * television channelVerb
- We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.
- When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.