CONDUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conduce mean? 

• CONDUCE (verb)
  The verb CONDUCE has 1 sense:

1. be conducive to

  Familiarity information: CONDUCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they conduce    ... he / she / it conduces   
Past simple: conduced   
Past participle: conduced   
-ing form: conducing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be conducive to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

conduce; contribute; lead

Context example:

The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing

Hypernyms (to "conduce" is one way to...):

advance; boost; encourage; further; promote (contribute to the progress or growth of)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

conducive (tending to bring about; being partly responsible for)

 Context examples 

At this very moment he is wild to see you, and occupied only in contriving the means for doing so, and for making his pleasure conduce to yours.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We have been conducing a chemical experiment indoors which has left our little room hardly fit for the reception of so distinguished a visitor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am bound to state to you, he said, with an official air, that the business habits, and the prudent suggestions, of Mrs. Micawber, have in a great measure conduced to this result.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A full stomach conduces to inaction, and the cub lay in the cave, sleeping against his mother's side.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Though she did not feel the first intelligence as she might have done the day before, or an hour before, its interest soon increased; and before their first conversation was over, she had talked herself into all the sensations of curiosity, wonder and regret, pain and pleasure, as to this fortunate Miss Hawkins, which could conduce to place the Martins under proper subordination in her fancy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father’s happiness, my adversary’s designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

What! at three-and-twenty to be the king of his company—the great man—the practised politician, who is to read every body's character, and make every body's talents conduce to the display of his own superiority; to be dispensing his flatteries around, that he may make all appear like fools compared with himself!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)