CPage 342
- English Word Conductor Definition One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
- English Word Conductor Definition One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
- English Word Conductor Definition The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
- English Word Conductor Definition A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
- English Word Conductor Definition A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
- English Word Conductor Definition Same as Leader.
- English Word Conductory Definition Having the property of conducting.
- English Word Conductress Definition A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
- English Word Conduit Definition A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.
- English Word Conduit Definition A structure forming a reservoir for water.
- English Word Conduit Definition A narrow passage for private communication.
- English Word Conduplicate Definition Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or aestivation.
- English Word Conduplication Definition A doubling together or folding; a duplication.
- English Word Condurango Definition See Cundurango.
- English Word Condurrite Definition A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.
- English Word Condylar Definition Of or pertaining to a condyle.
- English Word Condyle Definition A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.
- English Word Condyloid Definition Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.
- English Word Condyloma Definition Alt. of Condylome
- English Word Condylomata Definition of Condylome
- English Word Condylome Definition A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane.
- English Word Condylomes Definition of Condylome
- English Word Condylopod Definition An arthropod.
- English Word Cone Definition A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
- English Word Cone Definition Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
- English Word Cone Definition The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
- English Word Cone Definition A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- English Word Cone Definition To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
- English Word Cone pulley Definition A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.
- English Word Cone-in-cone Definition Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.