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CONDUCTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The direction of an orchestra or choir
Example:
he does not use a baton for conducting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conducting" is a kind of...):
direction; management (the act of managing something)
Derivation:
conduct (lead, as in the performance of a composition)
conduct (lead musicians in the performance of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The way of administering a business
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conducting" is a kind of...):
administration; disposal (a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs))
Derivation:
conduct (direct the course of; manage or control)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb conduct
Context examples:
A living individual about whom an investigator conducting research obtains data through intervention or interaction with the individual or through identifiable private information.
(Human Study Subject, NCI Thesaurus)
A living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or identifiable private information.
(Human Study Subject, Food and Drug Administration)
Refers to variants of the same protein which can be separated on special conducting media using electrophoresis.
(Isoform, NCI Thesaurus)
The act of conducting, controlling or supervising something.
(Management, NCI Thesaurus)
Improves the lives of the American public by discovering and conducting better ways to diagnose, assess, treat, and cure cancer through stimulating, coordinating, and funding a national program of cancer research.
(Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Through this program, community physicians work with scientists conducting NCI-supported clinical trials.
(Community Clinical Oncology Program, NCI Thesaurus)
A coil consisting of a conducting material such as that in a solenoid.
(Conductor Coil Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
The term "isoenzyme" or "isozyme" refers to variants of the same enzyme which can be separated on special conducting media using electrophoresis.
(Isozyme, NCI Thesaurus)
While conducting the scans, researchers also measured non-brain indicators of stress among study participants, such as heart rate, and levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in blood.
(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)
In trees, the region containing food-conducting tissue in the bark.
(Phloem, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
