CONDUCTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conducting mean? 

• CONDUCTING (noun)
  The noun CONDUCTING has 2 senses:

1. the way of administering a business

2. the direction of an orchestra or choir

  Familiarity information: CONDUCTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUCTING (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The direction of an orchestra or choir

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he does not use a baton for conducting

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)

 Context examples 

A non-conducting board to which electronic components are attached.

(Circuit Board Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

All the activities included in the process of conducting clinical bioequivalence or bioavailability studies.

(Clinical Bioequivalence or Bioavailability Study, NCI Thesaurus)

A healthcare organization, an institution, a facility, a healthcare provider, or a part or a constituent of any of the above entities directly involved in conducting a particular clinical study.

(Clinical Study Site, NCI Thesaurus)

A flap of mucosal, and possibly gingival, tissue including the periosteum, reflected from bone and created in the process of conducting orthodontic surgery.

(Mucoperiosteal Flap, NCI Thesaurus)

Mucous (goblet) cell metaplastic hyperplasia is a variant, in which the respiratory epithelium of conducting airways is replaced by mucous cells either as a single or a pseudostratified layer.

(Airway Epithelial Hyperplasia of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Any of the conducting cells of the nervous system.

(Murine Neurons, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to conducting research at active wildfires in the western U.S., the scientists performed controlled field experiments, setting fires and monitoring their rapid spread through an array of atmospheric instrumentation.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

Building on the results of this study, the researchers are currently conducting clinical trials involving melatonin agonists.

(Study confirms melatonin helps burn calories and curbs weight gain, University of Granada)

Any healthcare organization, institution, facility or provider directly involved in conducting or facilitating a particular clinical trial.

(Clinical Trial Site, NCI Thesaurus)

Every clinical trial has a protocol, or action plan, for conducting the trial.

(Clinical Trials, NIH: National Institutes of Health)