Watchdog vs Conductor - What's the difference?
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a guard dog
a person or organization that monitors and publicizes the behavior of others (individuals, corporations, governments) to discover undesirable activity.
To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.
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.
Watchdog is a related term of conductor.
As nouns the difference between watchdog and conductor
is that watchdog is a guard dog while conductor is one who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.As a verb watchdog
is to perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.watchdog
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(en noun)Derived terms
* watchdog timerVerb
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*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.