What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Warder vs Conductor - What's the difference?

warder | conductor | Related terms |

Warder is a related term of conductor.


As a verb warder

is to keep, retain.

As a noun conductor is

one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.

warder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A guard, especially in a prison.
  • (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
  • * 1595 , Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
  • When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, / Casts down his warder to arrest them there.
  • * William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act 1, Scene 3
  • Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    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 ----