conduct

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To direct the course of; manage or control.
2. v. To lead or guide. See Synonyms at accompany.
3. v. Music To lead (an orchestra, for example).
4. v. To serve as a medium for conveying; transmit: Some metals conduct heat.
5. v. To comport (oneself) in a specified way: She conducted herself stoically in her time of grief.
6. v. To act as a conductor.
7. v. To lead.
8. n. The way a person acts, especially from the standpoint of morality and ethics.
9. n. The act of directing or controlling; management.
10. n. Obsolete A guide; an escort.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To accompany and show the way to; guide; escort; lead.
2. To direct; act as leader of. As a commander.
3. As a director of a musical performance. See conductor, 4.
4. To direct the course of; manage; carry on: as, he conducted his affairs with prudence.
5. Reflexively, to direct the action or conduct of; behave: as, he conducted himself nobly.
6. In physics, to carry, convey, transmit, or propagate: as, metal conducts heat better than wood.
7. In physics, to carry, convey, transmit, or propagate motion or energy; especially, to transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.
8. To act as musical conductor.
9. To behave: used without the reflexive pronoun.
10. n. The act of guiding or leading; guidance; escort.
11. n. The act of directing or controlling; management; administration.
12. n. A drawing out or development, as of the action of a poem or the plot of a drama or a novel.
13. n. Skilful management or administration; good generalship; tact and dexterity in affairs; address.
14. n. Personal behavior or practice; way of acting generally or on a particular occasion; course of action; deportment: as, laudable conduct; evil conduct.
15. n. . A conductor, guard, or convoy; an escort.
16. n. A passport. See safe-conduct.
17. n. That which conveys or carries; a channel; a conduit.
18. n. A tax levied by Charles I. of England for the purpose of paying the traveling-expenses of his soldiers. Also conduct-money. See coat-money.
19. Hired; employed: as, “conduct prestis,”
20. n. The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College, England; a conductus.
21. n. The arrangement and composition of a picture.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act or method of controlling or directing
2. n. Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
3. n. The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
4. n. of a literary work Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
5. v. archaic, transitive To lead, or guide; to escort.
6. v. transitive To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
7. v. transitive (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.
8. v. transitive To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
9. v. transitive, music To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
10. v. intransitive To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
11. v. transitive To carry out (something organized)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
2. n. Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
3. n. Archaic Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
4. n. obsolete That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
5. n. The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
6. n. Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
7. v. To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
8. v. To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on.
9. v. To behave; -- with the reflexive.
10. v. (Physics) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
11. v. (Mus.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
12. v. To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
13. v. United States To conduct one's self; to behave.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. lead, as in the performance of a composition
2. v. behave in a certain manner
3. v. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
4. n. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
5. v. lead musicians in the performance of
6. n. manner of acting or controlling yourself
7. v. take somebody somewhere
8. v. direct the course of; manage or control