Exercise vs Conduct - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between exercise and conduct

is that exercise is to set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to while conduct is convoy; escort; guard; guide.

As nouns the difference between exercise and conduct

is that exercise is any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability while conduct is the act or method of controlling or directing.

As verbs the difference between exercise and conduct

is that exercise is to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop while conduct is to lead, or guide; to escort.

exercise

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:desire of knightly exercise

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:an exercise of the eyes and memory

Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.

*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.

A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.

*(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)

*:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature

* (1809-1892)

*:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.

The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:to draw him from his holy exercise

(lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.

Alternative forms

* exercice * excercise

Derived terms

* exercise book * exercise machine * five-finger exercise * floor exercise * military exercise

Verb

(exercis)

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.

To perform physical activity for health or training.

To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.

*Bible, (w) xxii. 29

*:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.

To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.

*(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)

*:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.

(lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

*Bible, (w) xxiv. 16

*:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.

*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

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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

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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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