What's the difference between conductor and generator?

Conductor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
  • (n.) One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
  • (n.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
  • (n.) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
  • (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
  • (n.) Same as Leader.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
  • (2) The adrenergic fibres form developed plexuses different in the density of disposition of nerve conductors on the arteries of different segments of the spinal cord.
  • (3) (Peter Adamik) The Order of Merit (OM) awarded to individuals of greatest achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science, goes to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle , and to the heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub.
  • (4) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
  • (5) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.
  • (6) The extracellular potentials of single frog muscle fibers in homogeneous unbounded volume conductor at different temperature are calculated.
  • (7) The electrical conduction of the ECG from the fetal heart to the maternal abdomen has been modelled by using volume conductor models based on the measured actual geometry.
  • (8) This can be deduced from the facts that the inhibition by valinomycin is relatively insensitive to pH, is considerably greater in Na(+)- than in K(+)-containing buffers, and is not enhanced by the addition of proton conductors.
  • (9) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
  • (10) These stationary potentials can spread widely in a volume conductor and can even be detected in a non-stimulated subject making a close contact to the generator source.
  • (11) These phenomena were attributed to the complex spread of the bioelectrical potentials in the nonhomogeneous volume conductor formed by the tissues of the temporal bone.
  • (12) No conductor telling me when to come in, no legato or staccato to follow.
  • (13) It has been suggested that many attributes of gastrointestinal electrical activity cannot be adequately explained by classic "core-conductor" or "cable" models of excitation and conduction.
  • (14) The antennas are made of thin coaxial cables with a radiation gap or gaps on the outer conductor.
  • (15) We are thankful for the efficient therapy of the semi conductor Ga As Laser and the possibility that we have through the use of such an instrument to reduce the supply of the anti inflammatory medicines in patients that experience pain.
  • (16) Following reestablishment of the main blood flow a positive electrical potential (3--4 V) was fed on the prosthesis by means of a current conductor.
  • (17) Fields H3, H4, H5 send no afferent conductors to the post-commissural fornix.
  • (18) Out of interest, we were contacted by another reader this week who wrote to say that a train conductor she met on holiday last year, who lived in York, was saying how delighted he was that his rail company had upped the "commission rate he received on tickets sold on the train to people unable to produce a proper ticket".
  • (19) Myelinated nerve fiber excitation is determined from a core-conductor nerve model, whose nodal currents are described by the Frankenhaeuser-Huxley kinetics and the aforementioned field providing the applied potentials.
  • (20) Considering the brain as a volume conductor, the ways of revealing the ocular movement artefacts in the frontal EEG leads have been suggested.

Generator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
  • (n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.
  • (n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (3) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (4) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (5) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
  • (6) It was also found that lipocortin I and ONO-RS-082, but not neomycin, facilitated the generation of GIF-producing T cells.
  • (7) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
  • (8) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
  • (9) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
  • (10) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (11) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
  • (12) This result suggests that tryptophan-86 may be importantly involved in the generation of the product excited state during aequorin bioluminescence.
  • (13) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (14) The transmission of alcoholism and its effects are thereby lessened for future generations of children of alcoholics.
  • (15) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
  • (16) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (17) These results suggest that CD4+ protective T cells generated by immunization with vBCG are characterized by the ability to produce IFN-gamma after stimulation with specific Ag.
  • (18) The alpha-ketoglutarate generated is reduced with glutamate dehydrogenase and NADH.
  • (19) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
  • (20) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.