The difference between Conduct and Transmit

When used as verbs, conduct means to lead, or guide, whereas transmit means to send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.

Conduct is also noun with the meaning: the act or method of controlling or directing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Conduct and Transmit

  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. Transmit as a verb (transitive):

    To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.

  2. Transmit as a verb (transitive):

    To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.

  3. Transmit as a verb (transitive):

    To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.

  4. Transmit as a verb (transitive):

    To communicate news or information.

  5. Transmit as a verb (transitive):

    To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.

  6. Transmit as a verb (intransitive):

    To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).

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