Spend vs Conduct - What's the difference?
spend | conduct |
To pay out (money).
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, title= To bestow; to employ; often with on'' or ''upon .
* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
(label) To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To consume, to use up (time).
* 1661 , ,
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, title= To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
(label) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
To be diffused; to spread.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) To break ground; to continue working.
Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
(pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
* {{quote-news
, date = 2011-02-01
, first = Ami
, last = Sedghi
, title = Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/01/january-transfer-spend-record-high-torres
, passage = Total January spends by year
}}
* {{quote-web
, year = 2011
, title = Council spending over £500
, site = Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
, url = http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/business_and_employment/tenders_and_contracts/council_spending_over_£500.aspx
, accessdate = 2012-01-26
, passage = The spends have been made by our strategic partners ...
}}
Discharged semen
Vaginal discharge
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.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 20
, author=Matt Day and Tatyana Shumsky
, title=Copper Falls to 2011 Lows
, work=(Wall Street Journal)
(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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, year=2011
, date=September 11
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, title=Fugro, Royal Philips Electronics: Benelux Equity Preview
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As verbs the difference between spend and conduct
is that spend is to pay out (money) while conduct is (archaic|transitive) to lead, or guide; to escort.As nouns the difference between spend and conduct
is that spend is amount spent (during a period), expenditure while conduct is the act or method of controlling or directing.spend
English
Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Iam never loath / To spend my judgment.
- their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
Derived terms
* spending money * spendthrift * spent forceNoun
(en noun)- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsconduct
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.
citation, page= , passage=The metal easily conducts electricity and doesn't rust in water, properties that have made it valuable in uses from household plumbing and electric wiring}}
- 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.
citation, page= , passage=The world's largest surveyor of deepwater oil fields won a contract to conduct a survey of the French Gulf of Lion to map sand reserves.}}