The difference between Conduct and Control

When used as nouns, conduct means the act or method of controlling or directing, whereas control means influence or authority over something.

When used as verbs, conduct means to lead, or guide, whereas control means to exercise influence over.

check bellow for the other definitions of Conduct and Control

  1. Conduct as a noun:

    The act or method of controlling or directing

  2. Conduct as a noun:

    Skillful guidance or management; generalship.

  3. Conduct as a noun:

    The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.

    Examples:

    "Good conduct will be rewarded and likewise poor conduct will be punished."

  4. Conduct as a noun (of a literary work):

    Plot; action; construction; manner of development.

  5. Conduct as a noun (obsolete):

    Convoy; escort; guard; guide.

  6. Conduct as a noun:

    That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

  1. Conduct as a verb (archaic, transitive):

    To lead, or guide; to escort.

  2. Conduct as a verb (transitive):

    To lead; to direct; to manage

    Examples:

    "The commander conducted thousands of troops."

    "to conduct the affairs of a kingdom"

  3. Conduct as a verb (transitive):

    (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.

    Examples:

    "He conducted himself well."

  4. Conduct as a verb (transitive):

    To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)

  5. Conduct as a verb (transitive, music):

    To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

  6. Conduct as a verb (intransitive):

    To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

  7. Conduct as a verb (transitive):

    To carry out (something organized)

  1. Control as a verb (transitive):

    To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: besteer bewield manage puppeteer rule"

    "With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck."

  2. Control as a verb (transitive, statistics):

    (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.

  1. Control as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    Influence or authority over something.

    Examples:

    "The government has complete control over the situation."

  2. Control as a noun:

    A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent.

  3. Control as a noun:

    The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

  4. Control as a noun:

    Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.

  5. Control as a noun:

    A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

  6. Control as a noun (project management):

    A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.

  7. Control as a noun:

    A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Johnson"

  8. Control as a noun (graphical user interface):

    An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: widget"

  9. Control as a noun (climatology):

    Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

  10. Control as a noun (linguistics):

    A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See .

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