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Conduct may refer to: Behavior a personal behavior , a way of acting and showing one's behaviour using hand gestures to direct Conduct disorder Action (philosophy) , in relation to moral or ethical precepts Conducting a musical ensemble a Conduct was a ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conduct \Con*duct"\, v. i. To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry. To conduct one's self; to behave. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to guide," from Latin conductus , past participle of conducere "to lead or bring together" (see conduce ). Sense of "convey" is from early 15c.; that of "to direct, manage" is from 1630s; "to behave in a certain way" from c.1710; "to convey" ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. manner of acting or conducting yourself [syn: behavior , behaviour , doings ] (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people [syn: demeanor , demeanour , behavior , behaviour , deportment ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or method of controlling or directing 2 Skillful guidance or management; generalship. 3 The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior. 4 (context of a literary work English) Plot; action; construction; ...
Usage examples of conduct.
On the other hand, given the facts of a situation containing elements of duress, in other words of various pressures from family, friends and the community which a minor finds himself unable to resist, he has in effect been given a choice of evils by the defendant, and while his conduct may indicate his consent, the facts in the situation may persuade us otherwise.
But before leaving York, Adams had been told by Elbridge Gerry that he was to be appointed a commissioner to France, in place of Silas Deane, who was being recalled to answer charges of questionable conduct.
In a vigorous response, dated February 26, Adams recounted and explained his conduct in detail.
Acutely conscious of the mistakes Adams had made as Vice President, Jefferson, when presiding in the Senate, never talked out of turn, or tried to impose his own opinion from the chair, conduct all in keeping with his nature.
A Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq.
On November 19, Adams wrote the following at the bottom of her letter-book copy: The whole of this correspondence was begun and conducted without my knowledge or suspicion.
But for one who saw life and conduct sub specie aeternitatis it had seemed natural enough.
Then agents assigned to OPR conduct a series of interviews to see if the charge or charges have merit.
They would meet in a little while in public, conduct their public business, then drift casually away to a small cabin the man leased and used in the borderland south of Agua Prieta, Mexico, primarily for hunting quail.
With them, besides Bishop Alcock, was Anthony Widville, now Earl Rivers, who was afterwards to conduct the Prince of Wales to Ludlow Castle and the Marches.
Indian women and children would be left at the Russian fort as hostages of good conduct, and at the head of as many as four, five hundred, a thousand Aleut Indian hunters who had been bludgeoned, impressed, bribed by the promise of firearms to hunt for the Cossacks, six Russians would set out to coast a tempestuous sea for a thousand miles in frail boats made of parchment stretched on whalebone.
Around them, scattered allover the rolling hills, the other squads conducted similar exercises.
But, this is NOT the way an honorable ometvah, who served in Anh Tsevah military, conducts himself.
Such are some of the reasons which induce doubt of the theory that all of the experiments of these vivisectors were conducted upon animals wholly insensible to painful impressions.
No laboratory--so far as known--dares to invite inspection at any hour, even from men of the highest personal character, and leave them free to reveal or to publicly criticize whatever in the experiments upon animals there conducted seems worthy of caution or reproof.