Squire vs Conductor - What's the difference?
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A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(UK, colloquial)
To attend as a squire
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
* 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
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* 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
* Dryden
(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.
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
A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
(architecture) A leader.
Squire is a related term of conductor.
As nouns the difference between squire and conductor
is that squire is a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight or squire can be (obsolete) a ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure while conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.As a verb squire
is to attend as a squire.squire
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(wikipedia squire)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(squir)- (Chaucer)
- to squire a lady
- (Goldsmith)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) See square.Noun
(en noun)- But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
- do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
- as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
- twelve foot and a half by the squire .
Anagrams
* *conductor
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Alternative forms
* conductour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
- train conductor'''; tram '''conductor
- If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
