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Conductor vs Metallic - What's the difference?

conductor | metallic |

As nouns the difference between conductor and metallic

is that conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director while metallic is a color.

As an adjective metallic is

made of, appearing to be made of, resembling, or related to metal.

conductor

English

Alternative forms

* conductour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
  • * Dryden
    • Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
  • (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
  • A person who takes tickets on public transportation.
    • train conductor'''; tram '''conductor
  • 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
  • * 1988 , F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
    • If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
  • A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
  • (architecture) A leader.

    • Antonyms

    * non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)

    Derived terms

    * lightning conductor

    Related terms

    * conduct * semiconductor, dielectric

    See also

    * ticket inspector ----

    metallic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metallick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of, appearing to be made of, resembling, or related to metal.

    • Derived terms

    * intermetallic * metallically * metallicity

    Related terms

    * metal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A color
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 24, author=Karin Nelson, title=Keeping Time in Cool Comfort, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics , explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.” }}