sub-conductorn.
/ˈsʌbkənˌdʌktə/, U.S. /ˈsəbkənˌdəktər/ 1. Military. Originally: an assistant to a conductor (conductor n. 3a). Later also: an officer ranking below a conductor (conductor n. 3b). Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > officer in charge of stores
storekeeper1618
munitioner1632
sub-conductor1778
storeman1859
storeholder1869
conductor1879
1778 G. Washington Let. 17 Jan. in Papers (2003) Revolutionary War Ser. XIII. 258 Mr William Smith, is employed in the Continental Service as Deputy Waggon Master..Wm Smith Junior as Sub Conductor—and Thomas Edwards and Amos Evans as Waggoners.
1818 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Apr. 418/2 Serj. T. D'Arcey, of the commissariat, to be a sub-conductor in that department.
1897 Times 8 May 10/4 Sub-Conductor George Arthur Parke, Army Ordnance Corps.
1906 F. Maurice Hist. War S. Afr. 1899–1902 I. xxv. 419 All ox-wagons were grouped in sections of ten, with a conductor and sub-conductor for each section.
1943 E. Thompson Making of Indian Princes xxxi. 186 Metcalfe's youngest son, for example, could rise only to the rank of subconductor.
2000 P. D. Earl Mac Runciman 240 Mac was actually appointed to what is here called the highest non-commissioned officer rank in the Canadian army, ‘Subconductor of Ordnance (Acting)’... There was, in fact, one higher rank: Conductor of Ordnance.
2. Music. An assistant or deputy conductor of an orchestra, choir, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > leader of orchestra
concertmaster1773
leader1786
sub-conductor1836
orchestra leader1843
professor1914
lead1934
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > conductor > subordinate
sub-conductor1836
1836 Musical World 8 Apr. 61 ‘The Oratorio’ was led by Mr. Aldridge, and conducted by Mr. G. Holden (sub-conductor of the Liverpool Festival).
1845 Athenæum 22 Nov. 1132/1 Don Luis Cepeda, sub-conductor of one of the orchestras of that city.
1947 H. G. Farmer Royal Artillery Concerts v. 15 The military band, which was left to the sub-conductor (the Serjeant Major) and his subordinates.
1976 D. Steele in H. Procter-Gregg Beecham Remembered i. 109 The confusion caused by Weingartner's being quite out of touch..with his sub-conductors.
2008 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 4 Mar. 16 Russell was there himself as sub-conductor—with Graham Kirkland in overall control.
3. Electrical Engineering. A subsidiary or subordinate electrical conductor; spec. each of a number of separate cables physically connected but electrically distinct; each of the cores of a multicore cable.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > [noun] > conductor > device
conductor1742
sub-conductor1887
pigtail1971
1887 U.S. Patent 373,010 1/2 From these main conductors feeders or sub-conductors l′ and l2 are derived.
1940 U.S. Patent 2,191,995 3/1 The subconductors 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d thus made are laid up together in the fashion normally adopted for a multicore cable.
1973 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 275 186 With bundles of six or more subconductors it is virtually impossible to avoid the existence of a pair of subconductors with little vertical separation.
2007 S. Ray Electr. Power Syst. iv. 61 A 230 kV system may have two sub-conductors per phase separated by 30 cm and a 400 kV system may have four sub-conductors per phase at the corners of a 30 cm square.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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