(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.
Maestro
Definition:
(n.) A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.
Example Sentences:
(1) London-born, his accent already has a touch of that strange, trans-continental maestro-speak that Simon Rattle perfected a few years ago.
(2) Even a fully qualified "barista maestro" responsible for training junior baristas at a London branch of Costa Coffee earns a maximum of £7.15 per hour (plus some bonuses and incentives), compared with the £8.55 estimated by the Greater London Authority as a living wage (or £7.45 elsewhere).
(3) Jorge, the island's plumber, fado singer and domino maestro explains the insular philosophy to tourism.
(4) For the first time in a generation, there's hardly a weak link in any of the relationships between the maestros and their orchestras: the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo and now Andris Nelsons; the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with Kirill Karabits; the Hallé with Mark Elder; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko; the Northern Sinfonia with Thomas Zehetmair.
(5) Just as we finished the session, the Maestro called me over.
(6) Thirty minutes with the maestro will not be 29 minutes or 31 minutes.
(7) Despite his gaffe-prone nature and warnings to American travelers to stay away from planes , Biden is, by many accounts, a foreign policy maestro.
(8) By the time Porter was choosing the final players who will dress against Bayern Munich on 6 August, the commissioner had already put the Timbers' maestro in the All-Star squad.
(9) But after a flurry of speculation about the return of the political maestro – which Blair set off himself by responding "sure" to the Evening Standard's question about whether he would like a further prime ministerial term – the survey also asked what voters would do if he were back in the running.
(10) The dining room of our local college is packed with Eames Eiffel chairs while children at the airport get to spill their meals on high chairs designed by Danish design maestro Arne Jacobsen.
(11) Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma , maestro of the V&A's troubled Dundee outpost project , the new home for the Regional Contemporary Art Fund is clad in a shimmering cloud of angled glass panels.
(12) The closest we come is when Hitchcock stands in the lobby outside the premiere, faux-conducting Bernard Hermann's slashing violins; he has a combination of a maestro's manual flourishes and a murderer's manic stabbing motions as the audience inside wails and howls its way through the shower scene.
(13) "I got a call from Maestro Abreu," he tells me through a translator, "who told me that in two weeks, I would be conducting Mahler's Second Symphony!
(14) President Reagan replaced Volcker with Alan Greenspan – who Wall Street dubbed "the maestro" – in 1987, because, despite the success of his monetary policies, he was sceptical about Reagan's plans to unfetter the financial sector from regulation, a cause Greenspan enthusiastically embraced.
(15) I think I lost twice against Toni.” His audience began to rack their brains for the Latin maestro who had got the better of him.
(16) Look for the Maestro del Gusto (Master of Taste) sign of quality outside delicatessens, eateries and bars.
(17) The problem with that question is it overlooks the fact these are footballers who have already made their reputations when the heat of the battle is at its most intense – greats of our time such as Xavi, the maestro who made more passes than Arsenal's entire midfield when Barcelona dismantled Arsène Wenger's team in the Champions League, or Andrés Iniesta, a player who gives the impression of being in love with the ball.
(18) Because every football match should have at least one free-kick maestro just as every city should have at least one court and concert hall, ideally to be used in conjunction with each other.
(19) "Maestro Abreu knew all along what he was creating and what it could achieve."
(20) The opera house's orchestra has been playing funeral marches to an empty theatre in honour of its most significant figures since the death of Arturo Toscanini, the great Italian maestro, in 1957.