conductor
/kənˈdʌktɚ/ nom B2En français : chef d'orchestre, contrôleur, poinçonneur, conducteur
- One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
- 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 and also helps passengers. · train conductor· tram conductor
- Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.
- An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.
- A leader.
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The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears; a lamp placed on a stool illumined the apartment faintly, and showed Dantès the features of his conductor, an under-jailer, ill-clothed, and of sullen appearance.
For heaven’s sake, do not serve as a conductor between that man and me.
The usual guide from the hotel having followed them, they had paid two conductors, nor is it possible, at Rome, to avoid this abundant supply of guides; besides the ordinary cicerone, who seizes upon you directly you set foot in your hotel, and never quits you while you remain in the city, there is also a special cicerone belonging to each monument—nay, almost to each part of a monument.
Thus, then, the young men made no attempt at resistance, but blindly and confidingly surrendered themselves into the care and custody of their conductors.
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