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# conduct

«conduct» in Mova's school dictionary: **As a verb, to lead or direct music played by a band or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (conduct, conducts, conducted, conducting — stress on -DUCT); noun (conduct — stress on CON-, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) As a verb, to lead or direct music played by a band or orchestra, by moving your hands or a baton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#m1)

2) To organise and carry out an activity, like conducting an experiment or a survey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#m2)

3) In science, to let heat or electricity pass through: metals conduct electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#m3)

4) To lead or guide people, as in a guided tour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#m4)

5) As a noun, conduct means behaviour, how someone acts: good conduct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, materials that conduct heat or electricity are conductors (metals like copper); materials that do not are insulators (plastic, wood, rubber). That is why wires are copper inside plastic. We conduct a fair test by changing only one thing. At school, "conduct" is how well you behave: a code of conduct is a set of rules. In music, the conductor conducts the orchestra. Phrases: "conduct an experiment", "conduct electricity", "conduct heat", "good conduct", "code of conduct".

### examples

- Copper wire conducts electricity very well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x1)
- Metal spoons conduct heat, so they get hot in soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x2)
- We conducted an experiment to test which ball bounces highest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x3)
- Mr Lee conducted the school choir. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x4)
- Plastic does not conduct electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x5)
- Her conduct in class was excellent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x6)
- The guide conducted us around the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x7)
- The class conducted a survey of favourite fruits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/#x8)

### note

Stress changes the meaning: conDUCT (verb), CONduct (noun). As a noun about behaviour it is uncountable: "good conduct", not "a good conduct". Water with salts in it conducts electricity, which is why electrical things and water are dangerous together.

### In the corpora

- [The Mole's apology: «I am very sorry indeed for my foolish and ungrateful conduct ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/28/)
- [Metals conduct heat well, so a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot while a wooden one stays cool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/7/)
- [Dry your hands before touching plugs or switches, because water conducts electricity into your body.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/10/)
- [Deep inside Jupiter, hydrogen is squeezed so hard that it becomes a liquid metal that conducts electricity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/7/)
- [Metals conduct heat well, while wood, plastic, wool and air conduct it poorly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/60-reasoning-energy-technology/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conduct» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conduct/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.