Conductor vs. Cable

One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.

(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 and also helps passengers

Example: ‘train conductor; tram conductor’;

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

A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, such as lithontriptic forceps; a director.

(architecture) A leader.

One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.

Example: ‘Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.’;

One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.

The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.

A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.

A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.

Same as Leader.

the person who leads a musical group

a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.

a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat

the person who collects fares on a public conveyance

(material) A long object used to make a physical connection.

A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.

An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.

(nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.

(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.

Example: ‘I tried to watch the movie last night but my cable was out.’;

Short for cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.

A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.

(finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.

(architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.

(transitive) To provide with cable(s)

(transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)

(transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable

(transitive) To send a telegram by cable

(intransitive) To communicate by cable

To ornament with cabling.

A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.

A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; - called also cable molding.

To fasten with a cable.

To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

To telegraph by a submarine cable

a telegram sent abroad

a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire

a nautical unit of depth

television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

a television system transmitted over cables

send cables, wires, or telegrams

fasten with a cable;

Example: ‘cable trees’;