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Conveyor vs Conductor - What's the difference?

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Conveyor is a related term of conductor.


As nouns the difference between conveyor and conductor

is that conveyor is a person that conveys, transports or delivers while conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.

conveyor

English

Alternative forms

* conveyour (obsolete) * conveyer (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person that conveys, transports or delivers.
  • Anything that conveys, transports or delivers.
  • Words are a conveyor of meaning.
  • A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.
  • Derived terms

    * conveyor belt

    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

    See also

    * ticket inspector ----